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Craig Peterson "Henninger House" Lithograph Print

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23 1/4" x 27"
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Bedroom #2
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Lot # 023
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Watercolor Lithograph Print by artist Craig Peterson of "Henninger House". Signed at bottom right. Framed in Black Frame with White Matte. 

 For over 165 years, the Henninger House, Parma’s oldest surviving house, has stood at the northeast corner of Broadview and Rockside Roads. It was 1841 when immigrants from Bavaria, Germany, Philip and Sophia Henninger, married and built their log cabin and barn in a farming community on Town Line Road (now Broadview Road) in Parma Township. Near a stream (now West Creek), meandering down the slope to the Cuyahoga River, the site afforded a superb view of Cleveland and Lake Erie. With five children born between 1842 and 1848, the Henningers had outgrown their log cabin. So, in 1849, using sandstone from their adjacent Henninger Quarry, Philip Henninger built the house that stands today. Abandoned, neglected, decaying, for sale, and almost forgotten, the Henninger House seemed destined for demolition when the Parma Historical Society initiated a 1994 levy in an effort to save it. The levy failed, but the Henninger House remained… empty and unsold.It was Parma Councilman Tim DeGeeter who in 2001 spearheaded a renewed interest in preserving the Henninger House by designating the neighborhood as a “Quarry Creek Historic District” encompassing a 14-acre city-owned parcel along West Creek. DeGeeter, now Parma’s mayor, encouraged a focus on projects and historic landmarks to reclaim Parma’s heritage. With grass-roots partnerships that included West Creek Preservation Committee, now West Creek Conservancy (WCC), the City of Parma, the Trust for Public Land, the Henninger Task Force, and the Parma Historic Society—the campaign to save the Henninger Homestead was under way. And it succeeded.