Hawthorn Hill in Oakwood, Ohio, was the post-1914 home of Orville, Milton and Katharine Wright. Wilbur and Orville Wright intended for it to be their joint home, but Wilbur died in 1912, before the home's 1914 completion. The brothers hired the prominent Dayton architectural firm of Schenck and Williams to realize their plans. Orville and his father Milton and sister Katharine occupied the home in 1914. Distinguished visitors to the Wright family mansion in the next 38 years, included Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, Carl Sandburg, Admiral Richard Byrd, King Constantine of Greece, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh. The NCR Corporation purchased Hawthorn Hill after Orville Wright's death in 1948 for $75,000. The home was owned by the NCR, until August 18, 2006, when the company donated the historic home to the Wright Family Foundation in honor of Orville's 135th birthday and National Aviation Day. Architectural Style-Combination of Colonial Revival with Georgian and English Renaissance style elements. Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on October 18, 1974. GPS: 39.72238°N, -84.17626°W.
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