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| No: 819 | Street: Douglas | Name: |
| Family: BRE Investments Llc. | OwnerInfo: Y |
| Built: 1954 | Sec: 28 | Sub: Thomas R. Biggs-Gravelotte | Lot: most of 4 & 5 |
| Architect: Ferd B. Critchell Sr. | Cont/Build: Hoefler & Sons |
| #Owners: 3 | Orig Use: Residential | Current Use: Residential |
| STYLE | Ranch: | Split: Y | Colonial: | Victorian: | Trans: | Trad: | Other: |
| CapeC: | Bung: | Eng: | Dutch: | Cont: | Misc: | ||
| CATALOGUE | Sears: | Gunn: | Pease: | BH&G: | Pattern: | OtherC: |
| MATERIAL | Siding: | Brick: | Stone: | Stucco: | Br&Sid: Y | OtherM: |
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| 1955 - Critchells finished the third floor bedroom. Dr. Lloyd Owns used Steinkamp & Nordloh, architects, to add a family room, 2nd floor bath and enlarge the kitchen. In 1961 he added a jalousied porch behind the kitchen. He turned the existing porch off the living/dining area into a room with built in shelves and a double fireplace facing into the new room and jalousied porch. The natural wood in the living/dining area was painted white. Also, the 3rd level of the house, "playroom", was plastered and made into a master bedroom. The unfinished storage area off the old "playroom" was divided into storage and a full bathroom. In 1970 the Stites made a 23' 6" x 16' addition. They made the jalousied porch off the kitchen into a room and built an adjoining large "pool" (table) room across the back of the house with a half bath and patio. This addition also had a basement underneath, reached by spiral steps and an outside cellar door. The architect was Thomas Wiggers. The builder was Don Curless. In 1982 the Stites used Kenneth G. Weiss to finish off the unfinished storage room off the master bedroom as a walk-in closet. In 1995 a portico (porch) was added to the front of the house. The architect was Jane Yancey (Seeley), their 811 Douglas neighbor; the builders were Hall & Elliott. | ||||
| CurrOwner: BRE Investments Llc. | Date Frc: 2007 | DateToc: |
| OrigOwner: Edith & "Ferd" B. Critchell Jr. | Date Frm: 1954 | DateTo: 1958 |
| Owner1: Joy A. Owens (& Dr. Lloyd) | Date Fr 1: 1958 | DateTo 1: 1966 |
| Owner2: Peter & Edna Stites | Date Fr 2: 1966 | DateTo 2: 2007 |
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| 1975 Owner: | Edna I. Stites |
| Description: | As first built this was a split level, frame/brick front home with vertical siding & wood shingle siding: living room, dining room, kitchen, breakfast nook, 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths, porch, entry, 1 car garage . |
| Story 1: | Douglas was a paper street in 1953. Ferd Critchell Jr. bought the ground that had belonged to John Robinson (of circus fame) and Carl Keyser (nephew or cousin). In 1954 it was replated into 5 80' lots, 200' deep. In 1956 the 2 lots at the end of the street were bought from Kessler Smith (who lived at 906 Stanton) whose sister, Leonora, was married to John G. Robinson III, the last operator of the Robinson Circus (see information with 1 Circus Place). |
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| 1959 Directory: | Lloyd Owens M. D. & Joy Owens |
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