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A unique local tile mural is embedded over the mantel of the Tudor arched cast-stone fireplace in the billiard room. Research led a former Braun & Steidl firm partner to uncover that the art was made in 1919 by Unitile, a Uhrichsville, Ohio, company founded by brothers including William Donahey, who created “The Teenie Weenies,” a Chicago Tribune comic strip about two-inch people living under a rose bush. The mural features characters on a fox hunt. “That makes it sort of rare he would have done that on the mantel of a fireplace,” says house co-owner Chas Schreckenberger.

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