The Ship Room, floors, walls and ceiling are crafted from beautiful bent White Oak, masterly done by a ships carpenter. This room is where that master of the home spent most of his time and was his favorite room. It was also my favorite.
The ceiling below shows the color of the room and the Spanish Rose pointer is connected to the Spanish Galleon wind vane on the top of the house. it still works to show the direction of the wind.
the room is acoustically perfect and if you stand on the dowel in the center of the room and speak, the sound reverberates in your head.
Below you can see the round ship room with the vane on top at the far left.
Below is Powel Crosley, Jr and wife Gwendolyn. They married in 1910. Her father did not think highly of Powel's prospects. His father was an attorney, but Powel loved to tinker and was not an eminent student. He was 30 years old and had never made more than 20.00 per week.
In 1916 he started a mail order business, Automobile Accessories Company and with a few years was grossing over million per year.
He became a well known inventor and multimillionaire. Below is a list of his many inventions and in 1934 he bought the Cincinnati Reds baseball team.
