Aaron Ferrey House

Kent, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Heritage registerNational Register of Historic Places↗

The Aaron Ferrey House, located in southern Kent, Ohio, was a Carpenter Gothic residence built in 1866 by Aaron Ferrey, a New England brick manufacturer who had established his business in the area in 1842 and settled there four years later. The house was a nearly exact replica of Design III from Andrew Jackson Downing's influential 1850 treatise *The Architecture of Country Houses*, with the substitution of an upper porch for an additional room—a rare complete realization of one of Downing's designs. Ferrey maintained a brickyard on the property alongside the residence until 1880. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, the house stood for over 150 years before its demolition in 2017.