Benajah Wolcott House

The (so-called) Benajah Wolcott House ( also presently designated as the Keeper's House*) is a stone structure on the Danbury-Marblehead Peninsula on the north side of Sandusky Bay near Marblehead, Ohio. (*- This "Wolcott House" structure should not be confused with the true "keeper's house" adjacent to the Marblehead Light, which is presently a large wood-frame structure built about 1880, upon the exact site of a former stone structure where Benajah Wolcott is known to have resided from 1822-1832).

The present "Wolcott House" stone structure was attributed by 20th-century historians to have been the residence of the Benajah Wolcott family during the 1820s. However, that attribution may have been erroneous. The property upon which this stone structure sits, was owned by a man named Seth Steel, until at least 1827 (and possibly until 1831). Therefore, Seth Steel and his own family (many of whom died of cholera in the 1830s, including Seth himself) presumably resided in this structure during that time-period (if, indeed, this structure was built in the year attributed, "1822", and if indeed it was built as a private residence, rather than strictly as a commercial structure as its original "2-front-doors" design perhaps suggests). It is now questionable that Benajah Wolcott ever resided in this stone structure — although, beginning in the early-1830s, other members of the Wolcott family seem to have later purchased this land from Seth Steel. However, Benajah Wolcott, himself, was never its owner, according to official property-records.

This stone "house" sits approximately in the center of original "Lot 15". But Benajah Wolcott's own property, here, was always, and only, within original "Lot 17", beginning in the year 1808. ( Benajah Wolcott had later, 1819–1821, resided in the City of Sandusky, but moved into the true "keeper's house" very near the base of the Marblehead Light, in 1822, where Wolcott resided until his death in 1832. Wolcott also continued to own his city-lot in Sandusky City, which may have been his Winter home, between shipping-seasons.) Therefore, the present designation of "Keeper's House", for this existing "Wolcott House" stone structure, approx. 2 miles distant ( or, approx. 3 miles via present roadway) from the lighthouse, may also be inaccurate, and certainly misleading. [ This original Lot "15" had formerly been owned by Epaphras* W. Bull, who had sold it to George Bishop ( but Bishop was murdered in 1819 by two Native-American-Indians). It may have been Bull or Bishop who actually constructed this "house", depending upon its true date of construction. (*Note: many later historians erroneously reported his name as "Epaproditus" Bull.)]

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