West Lakeshore Drive (Water Street) 

In 1842, George Huntington, husband of Emeline Kelley. (daughter of Datus and Sarah Kelley) built this Western Reserve style home from locally sawed red cedar. (The Western Reserve style was a modified Greek revival style of architecture popular in this part of the country in the mid-19th century.) 

Huntington quarried limestone on his property and, sometime before 1860, built the first railroad on the Island to connect his quarry with the dock he had constructed in 1854 (now Craft's): In addition, it was he who initiated an eventually lucrative and thriving viticulture and wine production business on Kelleys Island. 

The Huntington House is now a private residence and not open to public inspection.

*A gravity railroad.

From Kelleys Island, A Tour Guide