The Endly house at 103 W. Fourth Street has a new roof. The house was built by hardware merchant A. J. Endly in about 1850 .
When the Civic Center Authority bought the house in 2000 it was slated for demolition but this was forestalled by pressure from the Preservation Commission. When the Authority dissolved and the house was resold, an investment group bought it for possible future restoration as part of the Chamber District revitalization project. While there has never been any guarantee that the house would be saved, the new roof is making its future prospects look brighter.
Another house at 130 W. Third Street that was torn down by the authority was recently determined to have possibly been the Robert Bowland mansion which would have even older. It had been converted to flats and had even escaped notice in the Ohio Historic Inventory due to severe alteration