This ensemble in buff-grey Freeport and Massilon, Ohio sandstone is harmonious despite different construction dates and architects. Only the mansard roof on the Lodge is a little out of keeping. Into this century, the Lodge had a thinly framed wooden Gothic porch.
The 1926 addition to the Office Building, imitating the 1870 detail ideally without and partly within, shows respect for Mid-Victorian architecture, which was most unusual at the time. The Funeral Entrance that bypasses Chislett's gateway is just east of the Office Building and offers better clearance. The Bayard "Mansion House" once faced this entrance from an uphill site within the grounds.
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