Timeline for American House Wooster

American House, First Hotel 1837

• 1837 - built by William McComb and leased to Jacob Maize to operate as a hotel on the corner of E. Liberty and Buckeye Streets
• 1850 - 1850 Census, indicated 23 guests and employees lived at the hotel. Horace Howard, Landlord live there with his wife, Abigail, and their two sons.

American House, Second Hotel 1867

• 1867 - Hotel torn down to make way for newer 4-story building, brick Italianate structure, arched windows, ground floor housed a variety of businesses. On the second floor a large porch with fancy iron railing and decorative columns covered the sidewalk along E. Liberty St.
• 1870 - 1870 census, listed John Koch, Hotel Keeper with his wife Lucie, along with 4 children. Additional residents included E. B. Eshelman, editor of the Wayne County Democrat newspaper and Matthew McClure, Hotel Keeper at another hotel in the vicinity.
• 1873 - Commercial establishments included: bank, clothing store, boot and shoe, and a piano and organ store run by T. P. Baumgartner.

Yoder Hotel, 1892

• 1892 - Became the Yoder Hotel with building owner Catherine Imgard leasing it to Mary Yoder.
• 1965 - Building sold to First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Wooster