The Seiberling Mansion is a historic house located at Kokomo,

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. In 1887, Monroe Seiberling of

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, traveled to Kokomo to open the Kokomo Strawboard Company, which would make shoe boxes out of straw and employ seventy-five people. Within six months, Seiberling, uncle of

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Frank Seiberling Franklin Augustus "Frank" Seiberling (October 6, 1859 – August 11, 1955), also known as F.A. Seiberling, was an American innovator and entrepreneur best known for co-founding the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in 1898 and the Seiberling Rubber ...

, sold the Kokomo Strawboard Company and opened the Diamond Plate Glass Company. He began construction on his mansion in October 1889 at a cost of $50,000, with construction ending within two years. The mansion is built in a mixture of Queen Anne and

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. It is located in the Old Silk Stocking Historic District. The mansion is owned by the Howard County Historical Society and serves as the location of the Howard County Museum.

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Howard County Historical Museum
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