The Byron Barder House

The Byron Barder House was constructed in 1919 and designed by the Akron residential architecture company, Harpster and Bliss. The house is an example of a Georgian Revival style as well as the Adamesque mode of design. The house features a cream-colored brick and mortar with ivory trim; the building also built depth through sparse stone accents. The interior of the building is just as ornamental as the exterior. Featuring a grand main entrance, with a grand open staircase and a large upper hall. The house also features a third-floor dance hall and a billiards room in the basement. The bedrooms of the home also have sleeping porches attached so that the occupants could sleep with the cool night air.

The Barder House was commissioned by Byron R. Barder, a prominent Akron businessman. Barder was both the president and general manager of the Biggs Boiler Works Company. This prominent Akron company was founded in 1887, manufacturing steel tanks, steel pipes, and machinery for rubber works and paper mills. Barder had begun his work at the company in 1894 at the age of 16, working in the company office, quickly becoming the bookkeeper. At the age of 23, Barder became both the president and treasurer of the firm, and by 1917 Barder was also the general manager of the company. Barder lived in the house until his death in 1957 and in 1961 the house was sold to another family that owned the property until 1986. At that time, the building was purchased by the local architectural firm Braun and Steidl used the historic home as their company's office until 2018. The building was then put back on the market for residential or commercial use with an asking price of $1.3 million.

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Shingler, Dan. For sale: 13,000 square feet of Akron history, https://www.crainscleveland.com/. May 26th 2019. Accessed November 17th 2019. https://www.crainscleveland.com/real-estate/sale-13000-square-feet-akron-history.