Limousine Garage / Metroparks Hall

Limousine Garage, also, Metroparks Hall. . , After making their fortune in the Automotive industry, the Stranahan family enjoyed traveling in style. This building housed their limousines and provided a work area to msintenance other vehicles. In 1912, 26 year-old R.A. Stranahan secured a contract to become Ford Motor Company's sole supplier of spark plugs. The lucrative contract lasted nearly 50 years, and brought great wealth to Champion Spark Plug Company, the Stranahan family and northwest Ohio., This building originally featured two additional garage doors; can you tell where they were located? Notice the garage's four arches, cupola on the roof, and coloring. You will see these features repeated in other buildings on the estate., This wide walkway that links parking lot 1 to lot 4, once served as the family's private driveway and connected directly to Central Avenue. A second driveway was used by visitors., A gatehouse sat at each entrance, and both houses can still be found on Central Avenue today, although one was moved from its original location after Metroparks purchased the property.