Mosher House

Ohio, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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The Mosher House in Wellington, Ohio, is a two-story Prairie-style residence built in 1902 for John A. Mosher. Its design features an asymmetrical cruciform plan with an open porch at the west side facing the street, horizontal board and batten siding complemented by stucco above the second-floor window sills, and characteristic hip roofs with broad overhangs on all sides. The house has been attributed to Frank Lloyd Wright, though this attribution lacks documentary evidence and is not recognized by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation or most Wright scholars; the attribution rests primarily on superficial resemblance to an unbuilt Wright design for the same client. Despite being listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 under Wright's name, the nomination itself acknowledged doubt that Wright supervised or even saw the completed house, noting instead that it represents an interesting early twentieth-century example of Prairie-style influence.