3965 Southern Blvd., Kettering, Ohio. County/parish: Montgomery.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places December 22, 1977. NRIS 77001080.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The Charles F. Kettering House is a historic house on Ridgeleigh Road in Kettering, Ohio. Built in 1914, and reconstructed after a fire in 1995, it was the primary residence of inventor Charles F. Kettering, founder of Delco Electronics. The Tudor Revival house, also known as Ridgeleigh Terrace, was the first house in the United States with electric air conditioning using freon. The reconstructed house is now owned by Kettering Medical Center, which operates it as a conference center. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990518