Unfortunately, several generations later the Gothic Revival-style mansion was demolished after it had fallen into disrepair.

The Warren County Historical Society is offering a tour of the site next Wednesday night, July 31, at 6 p.m. ANF archaeologist Zaakiyah Cua will lead the hike, which will meet at the Wilder Museum in Irvine.

Gen. William Irvine, who served during the Revolution, was one of two sent to this region to survey the area.

“The land so entranced Irvine that he bought several large parcels for himself,” C.J. Chase, WCHS program manager, said. “Though the general never lived there, his descendants settled the property.”

Forest Service Archaeologist Zaakiyah Cua, center, will lead next week’s tour of the Irvine-Newbold estate.

Irvine’s son, Callender, started to develop the farm but Chase said that Irvine’s grandson, Dr. William Irvine, “expanded the house into a Gothic Revival-style mansion.

According to the WCHS, Dr. Irvine came back to the area after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania.

“He was prominent in opening a turnpike to Franklin and in establishing a stage coach line to Pittsburgh,” the WCHS site explains. “He also had a large part in bringing the first railroad to Warren, the Sunbury and Erie. He also built sawmills, a general store, iron foundry and woolen mill on his estate in Irvine. He had the streets of Irvine village laid out and surveyed.”

“The property passed to the doctor’s daughter, Sarah Irvine Newbold, who’d been widowed at just 34 years old,” Chase said. “Sarah never remarried, and she lived in the house with her four unmarried daughters until one-by-one the family dwindled.”

The last Newbold sister passed away in 1963. The mansion was deemed unsalvageable and demolished in 1973.

Many foundations remain that were once part of the estate along the banks of the Allegheny River. The ice house is the most intact structure.

Tour tickets are $5 and all proceeds will go to the museum.