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Photograph of Sorg Mansion, 204 South Main Street, Middletown, Ohio. Photograph is undated. The Sorg Mansion, located at 206 South Main Street, was built in 1887 (possibly 1888) by Paul J. Sorg, Middletown industrialist and the city’s first millionaire. The Romanesque house was designed by Pretzinger and Musselman of Dayton, using imported red limestone. The three-story, 12-bedroom, eight-bathroom, brick-and-stone, Romanesque castle features 12-foot ceilings, and fireplaces in every bedroom. It also contains a ballroom, formal dining room, and library. There is a 3-arched entrance and porch, which extends around the north turret, to a smaller, single arched porch. Both porches feature balustrades at the second-story level of a 1902 addition, and feature curved glass windows with smaller stained, leaded glass windows above them. At the roof line, there are gargoyles which shed water from the building. A griffin perches on the north gable. The grounds include a carriage house of similar construction, and a limestone wall topped with wrought iron fence surrounds the grounds. After Paul J. Sorg’s death, his wife S. Jenny Sorg, continued to live in the house when she was in Middletown, although she spent most of her time in New York State. The house then passed through the hands of many owners, and occasionally served as home to a variety of business and low-income apartments. In 2013, the house was bought by private owners, and renovations began to restore it to its original state.</div>
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