Price Corners - Plain City, Ohio

 

This artist's rendering of the home was printed in the 1875 Atlas of Madison County

Price Corners in Plain City, Ohio, it is a two-story, asymmetrical, masonry farmhouse completed in 1871 in architectural style of Late Victorian Italianate. The building has always been used as a residence. The Price-Wilson family owned the property until 1976 when it was sold to a family that had rented the lower portion of the house. The residence was built by Sarah Wilson Price's father, William D. Wilson. Wilson was a prominent land baron and cattleman in the area, owning 9,000 acres in the county upon his death in 1873. His daughter inherited the property immediately after his death. With the inherited land, the Price family owned several hundred acres between four connecting roads, hence the name Price Corners. In 1875, J . A. Caldwell, a local resident of Madison County, Ohio compiled a book on the history of the area. He included dozens of sketches illustrating prominent public buildings and homes in the county and narrated tales of the significant families. Only a handful of those buildings survived the past century. Among those that still exist and remain in good condition, is Price Corners ( A copper bathtub, marble sink and innovative early lead-pipe plumbing system still exist in the home's upstairs bathroom). Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on April 20, 1995. GPS: 40.04531°N, -83.29761°W.