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Background
The
home is known as both the Pickands Mansion as well as the
Cushing Mansion and is listed in the National
Register of Historic Places.
The
Original Owner
In 1905, it was designed and built in the historic Village
of Bratenahl on Lake Erie by Cleveland's most renowned architect,
J. Milton Dyer, who is best known for designing Cleveland
City Hall and the Summit County Court House.
Jay
Pickands of Pickands-Mather & Co., one of the largest
iron ore companies in the United States with shipping on
the Great Lakes, was only 25 years old when he had the house
built. Unfortunately, he died at a very young age and the
mansion was bought by one of Cleveland's most illustrious
medical families.
Prominent
Medical Family
The
Cushing family, which owned the house from 1915 to 1945,
included four generations of doctors (Erastus,
Henry
Kirke, Henry
Platt) and was responsible for founding Rainbow Baby
and Children's Hospital, of University Hospitals in Cleveland,
OH. The most famous of them, Dr.
Harvey Cushing, was America's first brain surgeon and
a recipient of a Pulitzer Prize.
Dr.
Harvey Cushing, prominent in New York Society, was also
famous for having three
beautiful daughters who were the toast of New York.
One married Vincent Astor, another married Jimmy Roosevelt
and then John Hay Whitney, and the third married Bill Paley,
founder of CBS. Her name was Babe Paley. The Cleveland and
New York families visited each other often.
The
house has been completely restored and is currently owned
by Helen Moss and Richard Fleischman.
"A
physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased
organ, more even than the whole man -- he must view the
man in his world."
-- Dr. Harvey Cushing
(1869 - 1939)
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