Museum of Spiritual & Art Fine Art Gallery

318 S River St Franklin, Ohio

The mansion was built in 1848 by a riverboat captain, Henry C. Storms in a historic Greek Revival style. It was originally built with 12 rooms, had 12-foot ceilings and a fireplace in every room.

1854  Eden B. Thirkield in purchased the mansion

1958  The five, marble fireplaces were installed

They were from marble quarried in Pennsylvania. Note that some of these have metal portions.

1906 home was expanded and divided into two homes The northern side was the home of Lida Thirkield Parks southern side the home of Edward Thirkield (lida’s father ) When renovations were complete the mansion was 6,300 sq. ft.

The last Thirkield descendent to live in the home survives. She is Ann Simpson Beach

The mansion changed hands many times over the years

1968 dress shop, the We Two Shop

1972 dress shop closed Doug and Laura Lee Oldham resided in the home

1980s Tom and Marcia Gardner made it their home and a bed and breakfast

2022 MOSA joined with the Art Enclave to become the

Art Enclave Fine Art Gallery

Saturday September 26th 2015 was the official grand opening of the Museum of Spiritual Art in Franklin, Ohio, the special event was well attended and received excellent reviews from the attendees.
I would like to thank everyone that contributed to the arrangements and organization of this great event, and made it a very special and spiritual day, especially my wife Chris Malhotra, Linda Swiatek and Donna Tudor.

2009 Malhotra purchased the property

2014 a wedding event center