Information & history on rear of piece:
In 1852,  a young man came to Wellville and opened a drugstore.   This man was Edwin Bradford Hall,  the descendant of a family whose roots trace back to the Plymouth Colony.   Hall was an amateur paleontologist,  who gathered fossil sponges for nearly fifty years.   He is best known for discovering a previously unclassified species,  today known as Dictyophyton Halli.   Here in Wellville,  Hall built his home.   The Pink House,  as the Hall house is known,  is believed to have been inspired by the Italian villas in the Lake Como region of Italy.   A receipt from the architects,  Henry Seale & Son,  shows that Hall paid $125.^oo for plans,  elevation,  specifications and working drawings for a "dwelling house."