Terrace Park, Ohio Building Survey

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No: 619  Street: Amherst Name: 
Family: Shafer Owner Info: Y
Built: 1952 Sec: 23 Sub: Sibley's 4th Lot: 1-4
Architect:  Cont/Build: 
#Owners: 9 Original Use: Commercial (earlier store)

Current Use: Residential

CHANGES As Built: N Add To: Y Sub From: N Replace: Y
1965 - Braggs added a bedroom and bath.  1967 - Braggs put on a new roof (Franklin Laugel, contractor).  1981 - Richard McCormick added a family room and deck (Norval Julnes).  1998/9 - Jack Myslik added a screened porch in back and a small portico over the front door (also lots of updates indoors).
Current Owner: Don Gerred Date Fr: 2010 Date To: 
Original Owner:  Matthew W. & Mary L. Meldon (fr TPB&L) Date Fr : 1952 Date To: 1965
Owner 1: William J. Jr. & Lynn P. Bragg Date Fr 1:1965 Date To 1: 1969
Owner 2: Charles J. Jr. & Patricia M. Goetz Date Fr 2:1969 Date To 2: 1973
Owner 3: Richard E. & Linda L. McCormick Date Fr 3: 1973 Date To 3: 1983
Owner 4: Employee Transfer Corp Date Fr 4: 1983 Date To 4: 1983
Owner 5: Joe Herbert & Candace Kay Smeltzer (see below) Date Fr 5: 1983 Date To 5: 1986
Owner 6: John R. Fletcher TR, Mariemont Community Church  Date Fr 6: 1986 Date To 6: 1986
Owner 7: Paul F. & Esther H. M. Power  Date Fr 7: 1986 Date To 7: 1997
Owner 8: John L. & K. Diane Myslik Date Fr 8: 1997 Date To 8: 2003
Owner 9: Lori Shafer Date Fr 9: 2003 Date To 9: 2009
Owner 10: Wells Fargo Bank National Association Date Fr 10: 2009 Date To 10: 2010
1975 Owner:  Richard E. & Linda L. McCormick. 1-2-3-4 Sib 4
Description: 1 story brick ranch, gable roof.  7 rooms (living & dining rooms, kitchen, family room, 3 bedrooms - also laundry room and screen porch).  Block foundation.  Landscaping by Danny McKeown.  
Story 1:      H. Beck's store was on this corner at the turn of the century.  A cellar hole remained on the site for a number of years following a fire.  Council pressured the landlord to fence the hole as it was a hazard to children passing by on their way to school. 
     From the deeds we know that H. M. Beck made his purchase from James W. Sibley for a store on the 19th of August 1891.  He sold it to Frznziska Tillner in 1897.  It was sold to Elizabth Krusling in 1909.  She held the land until 1927 when it was sold to the Terrace Park Building and Loan.  When the fire occurred and the original store building was torn down is not know at this time.  
  1897 resident: H. M. Beck (grocery).  1911-12 Directory: Eugene Conklin - confectioner. 
  All this was before the present house was built.
Story 2: Mat Meldon was a Cincinnati detective and known as quite a "dresser".  He was the 1st owner of the present house.
Story 3: Joe E. Smeltzer was assistant minister at the Mariemont Community Church.  The deeds show that the Smeltzers owned the house but after them the church owned it and others rented it.
Story 4: There are deeds relating to this house in the Building Survey file in the T. P. Historical Society archives.  There is also information concerning the vacating of an alley, which ran from Amherst S to the end of Sibley's 4th subdivision.  15 ft. - by ordinance 6, 1949.  
1959-60 Directories: Matthew & Mary Meldon 617 Amherst
1962-66 Directories Matthew & Mary Meldon 619 Amherst
1967-68 Direct: Spike & Lin Bragg
1969-72 Directories: Charles & Pam Goetz (1969 from New Jersey)
1973-76 Directories: Richard "Dick" & Linda McCormick
1978-80  Directories: Harold J. & Jetta Lou Lewis
1982 Directory: Richard & Linda McCormick (Sold 1983)
1984 Directory: Joe E. & Candace Smeltzer  
1986 Directory: Clare & Margaret Allen - renters from church 
1988-97 Directories: Paul & Esther Power (bought from Mariemont Church)
1998-2001 Directories: Jack & Diane Myslik
2002-03 Direct: "        (Sold 2003)
2004-05 Direct: Charlie & Lori Shafer
2006-09 Directories: "        (Sold 2010)
2011-12 Directory: Don & Lori Gerred