Porter Pollock was the son of William B. Pollock, owner of the William B. Pollock Company. This company was one of the worlds most renound manufacters of railroad cars, ladles and blast furnaces used in the Steel making business.
Porter was married to Mary Wick in 1897. Mary Wick's father, Paul, gave the newlyweds this 1893 mansion, which was designed by Charles H. Owsley. The mansion has been added onto several times, with mixed features taken from the Shingle, Queen Ann, and Richardsonian Romanesque architectural styles
In the 1980s, Youngstown State University tore down the Caretaker's House behind the main mansion and built a large addition onto the back of the mansion - which it opened as "The Wick-Pollock Inn".
To the left and rear of the main mansion is an old English garden that dates to ca. 1930s, and a carriage house in the rear of the property. Mary Wick-Pollock's initials can still be seen on a stone arch in the right-rear garden wall. (See "The Secret Garden" link in this photo gallery).
On April 21, 1931 Porter Pollock died at home in the mansion at No. 630 Wick Avenue of pneumonia. He was 67 years old and had been ill for a few weeks.