The home at 2210 Robinwood Avenue at Bancroft Street was constructed in 1901 for Alvin B. Tillinghast, a licorice tycoon.  The mansion was sold to John North Willys, founder of the Willys-Overland Company, a car maufacturing plant.   His biography can be read in Toledo & Lucas County Vol. 2 on page 18.  In 1910 Cynthia Sherman served as the family cook while Edward James was the butler.  The expansive front porch was enclosed in 1913.