{"id":12980,"count":1,"description":"Oak Hall is a 37-room, three-story Tudor-style mansion built by American mining millionaire Harry Oakes (1874-1943) located in Niagara Falls, Ontario, approximate 1\/4 mile southwest of the Canadian Horseshoe Falls. The building has housed the offices of the Niagara Parks Commission since 1982, while the grounds contain a 9-hole golf course established in June 1966.\nThe Oak Hall grounds were originally part of the Clark Hill Islands property (see Dufferin Islands). The property was sold off and split in 1898 and went through several ownership changes until Paul A. Schoellkopf bought the property in 1916. The Schoellkopf family was based across the Niagara River in Niagara Falls, New York and were pioneers of hydraulic power development in the region.\nHarry Oakes and his wife, Lady Eunice Oakes, bought the property from Schoellkopf in 1924 and constructed the Oak Hall building, which was completed by 1928. The Oakes family lived there until 1935, when Oakes wound up his affairs with...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/oak-hall\/","name":"Oak Hall","slug":"oak-hall","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/12980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=12980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}