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Meersbrook House was built 1780 by Benjamin Roebuck, a wealthy private Sheffield banker. The present day Meersbrook Park originally formed the grounds of the house. The house became the home of the Shores, owners of a bank on Church Street. When this bank crashed the house was auctioned in 1850. In 1890 the house was opened as the Ruskin Museum, which was formerly at St George