The Demand-Gest House is a historic residence in the village of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, United States. Built for a physician, it was for many years the home of local business leaders, and it has been named a historic site. Dr. Charles E. Demand was a charter member of the Mechanicsburg Masonic Lodge, as well as of Mechanicsburg's lodge of the Order of the Eastern Star. Besides his medical practice, he was a businessman, serving as president of the village's Mutual Loan and Savings Company in the 1910s. He arranged for the construction of the current house in 1900, making him one of several prosperous physicians to build homes in the first block of North Main Street in the period; his colleagues John H. Clark and Oram A. Nincehelser also lived in fine residences in the same block. After Demand left the property, it became the home of Neil Gest; a farmer and longtime executive of the village's Ohio Grain Company, Gest lived in the house for many years. Architectural Style-Colonial Revival. Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on August 29, 1985. GPS: 40.07261°N, -83.55647°W.
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