Paul Arthur Sorg, the son of affluent Middletown, Ohio, resident P.J. Sorg, whose father was associated with the American Tobacco Company, completed this mansion, which he called "Bide-a-Bit," in 1906. The family spent summers in Lakewood in the 1890's and early part of 1900's. Designed by an English architect, the house combined Tudor-style elements with aspects of a Scottish hunting lodge, and the carvings of its exceptional interior woodwork include figures from Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales." Paul Sorg died in 1913, and his wife, Jennie, continued to summer in Lakewood until her death in 1929. At that time, local resident John Coe opened the mansion as a tearoom called the Sorg Manor. It continued as a tearoom under Edward and Augusta Green in 1950, when the new name, The Green Farm, was carried from their previous tearoom in the Stow area. In later years the tearoom closed, and the Greens developed an elegant gift and clothing shop. It closed in 2000 and was sold to private interests.