Our home, Five Oaks was designed by the noted Cleveland architect Charles F. Schweinfurth and built 1892-1894 for Mr. and Mrs. J. Walter McClymonds at a cost of $200,000. The name was adopted from five oak trees that stood on the lawn. An oak motif, employing designs of the acorn, leaf, and tree, is used extensively in the house.
Today, Five Oaks is on the National Register for Historic Homes and is a treasure
located in historic Massillon for all to enjoy and experience.
This home is given to the Massillon Woman's Club in loving remembrance
and in perpetuation of the memory of
J. Walter McClymonds
and Flora Russell McClymonds
and by their daughters Edna McClymonds Wales and
Ruth McClymonds Maitland
in 1924.
"It gives my sister and me great happiness to give you their home and our home
as a center of community life and thought for the women of Massillon.
A place in which every woman, from whatever walk of life she may come,
shall feel at home in the truest comradeship, which is fostered
by working and playing together, and to the pursuit of the fine and
enduring thing in life - the deepening and the strengthening of life of spirit.
May it be for you, as it has been for us, a place of love, inspiration, and of peace."
Today, Five Oaks is on the National Register for Historic Homes and is a treasure
located in historic Massillon for all to enjoy and experience.
This home is given to the Massillon Woman's Club in loving remembrance
and in perpetuation of the memory of
J. Walter McClymonds
and Flora Russell McClymonds
and by their daughters Edna McClymonds Wales and
Ruth McClymonds Maitland
in 1924.
"It gives my sister and me great happiness to give you their home and our home
as a center of community life and thought for the women of Massillon.
A place in which every woman, from whatever walk of life she may come,
shall feel at home in the truest comradeship, which is fostered
by working and playing together, and to the pursuit of the fine and
enduring thing in life - the deepening and the strengthening of life of spirit.
May it be for you, as it has been for us, a place of love, inspiration, and of peace."