Work Record
Class: architecture – Italian art
*Work type: mansion – masonic temple – lodge
*Title/Name: Masonic Temple Title type: preferred
*Title/Name: Rockton Lodge Title type: secondary
*Title/Name: Masonic Center Title type: secondary
*Title/Name: The Homestead Title Type: former
*Creator: Isaac Tuttle (American, 1816-1900)
*Role: Architect (link) : Tuttle, Isaac
*Creation date display: 1880-1884, partially burned 1886 with habitant death, sold 1923, period of significance 1875-1899
Earliest: 1884 Latest: 2022
*Subject: architecture – founder – masonic lodge – clubhouse – single dwelling – politics – government – power
Style: Italianate – Victorian
*Current location: Kent, Ohio
*Measurements: 20 rooms, 7, 335 square feet, ballroom, 1a0 fireplaces, 3 floors
Extent: rooms Value: 20 Type: count Extent: stories Value: 3
Materials and Techniques: brick stone bearing masonry construction
Materials: masonry – brick – sandstone – wood – slate Technique: miscellaneous elements of wood and sandstone placed under a slate roof and a brick wall placed in front of the house
Description: The Masonic Temple in Kent, Ohio is a historic building which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built between 1880 and 1882 in the Italianate style, it was originally the home of Kent namesake Marvin Kent and his family. Due to Marvin Kent's national prominence in the Republican Party, many political leaders visited his house, including Presidents Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, William Howard Taft, and Warren G. Harding; the guest room in which every president slept has been named the "President's Room" and preserved in its late nineteenth-century condition. Members of Kent's family lived at the house for slightly more than forty years before selling it to a Masonic lodge in 1923.