Elegant and educational, the 1846 Mansion Museum was the former estate of Cleveland, Ohio industrialist Earl W. Oglebay, who purchased the mansion and surrounding acres to use as a summer home. Upon his death in 1926, the millionaire willed his spectacular country estate to the City of Wheeling.
We did a quick inside tour and drove past the mansion on the Tour of Lights. There were carolers and musicians on the portico. Ice sculptors had just finished the piece in the lower right corner that had a fire either inside the sculpture or behind it to light it.
Oglebay was one of the supporters of the college I went too- I think he was one of the presidents. There was/still is a building named after him. Pretty mansion, nice shot!
