Waddington Farms was the summer home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl W. Oglebay and later became Oglebay Park, one of the finest municipal parks in the country. A plan created for Mr. Oglebay in 1909 showed the proposed arrangement of grounds for Waddington Farms. The farm manager's residence, now the site of Oglebay Park's Visitor's Information Center and Administrative Offices, was originally built in 1856. A 1915 photograph shows farm workers posing on the original porch of this building when it was a residence on the Oglebay family's estate.