Add the Protected Home Circle Building to your Cat’s Meow Village. Inscription on the back: Protected Home Mutual Life Insurance Co., National Executive Office Since 1886, Sharon, Pennsylvania 16146. It is signed by the founder and artist of The Cat’s Meow Village, Faline Jones.

Background about the Protected Home Circle Building:

Protected Home Circle, later known as Protected Life, was founded in 1886 in Sharon, Pennsylvania as a fraternal insurance society. First housed in a 1905 four-story, yellow-brick, Romanesque structure erected on the east bank of the Shenango River with castle-like dormers and a turret, a devastating fire claimed the building as its victim on a rainy Monday evening in April 1936. The imposing $300,000, four-story Art Deco structure was built of glazed white brick. Designed by Walker and Weeks, one of Cleveland’s foremost architectural firms of the era, the building was dedicated April 21, 1937, exactly one year to the day since the fire.

In 1964, PHC converted to a mutual-life insurance company, Protected Home Mutual Life Insurance, or Protected Life. In November 2003, Protected Life merged into National Guardian Life Insurance Co. Today, Sharon’s most distinctive building is home to the local insurance company Gilbert’s Risk Solutions (started in 1854) and its affiliates.

About The Cat’s Meow Village:

Since it’s founding in Wooster, Ohio in 1982, The Cat’s Meow Village has been crafting iconic buildings in wood for decades, each with its signature style and of course, Casper, the black cat in each scene. The Cat’s Meow Village designs and prints the front of a 3/4" thick wood with colorful details, and the back includes written facts or a story about the featured image.