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| No: 435 | Street: Elm | Name: Marigold Tea Room |
| Family: Freshley | OwnerInfo: Y |
| Built: 1914 | Sec: 23 | Sub: Camden City | Lot: 312 ir, 688 to 697 & 821 to 825 inc to Jackson St. Vac pars 87 to 104 |
| Architect: | Cont/Build: Harry Eveland? |
| #Owners: | Orig Use: Residential | Current Use: Residential |
| STYLE | Ranch: | Split: | Colonial: | Victorian: | Trans: | Trad: Y | Other: |
| CapeC: | Bung: | Eng: | Dutch: | Cont: | Misc: with "southern" porches | ||
| CATALOGUE | Sears: | Gunn: | Pease: | BH&G: | Pattern: | OtherC: |
| MATERIAL | Siding: | Brick: | Stone: | Stucco: Y | Br&Sid: | OtherM: |
| ROOF: hip & gable | Stories: 2 | |||||
| CHANGES | AsBuilt: | AddTo: Y | SubFrom: | Replace: N |
| Added bath and bedroom to back (1st floor). 1988 - combined existing bedroom/bath into large bathroom (Comisar). 1990s - added a two room playhouse with electricity and phone as an outbuilding. 1998 - major addition to the north with excavation of brick cistern for wine cellar for the Freshleys. Added attached garage and master bedroom and bath (Jane Yancey, architect; Fletcher, contractor). 2002 - permit for M&M Dan Freshley to erect accessory structures - pool, pool house, fireplace, open arbor, stone fence and patio (Fletcher, contractors, Arcanum, architects). | ||||
| CurrOwner: Jill & Fred Freshley | Date Frc: 1995 | DateToc: |
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| Owner1: Gertrude Grunkemeyer et al. | Date Fr 1: 1930 | DateTo 1: |
| Owner2: Wm. C. & Ruth N. France. 1956 to William Cook France | Date Fr 2: | DateTo 2: 1956 |
| Owner3: Virginia M. Cramer | Date Fr 3: 1956 | DateTo 3: 1967 |
| Owner4: Robert R. & Jeanette Eisele | Date Fr 4: 1967 | DateTo 4: 1976 |
| Owner5: Donald U. & Palmer L. Ellsworth | Date Fr 5: 1976 | DateTo 5: 1980 |
| Owner6: William S. & Sarah M. Cantwell | Date Fr 6: 1980 | DateTo 6: 1986 |
| Owner7: Nat & Gigi Comisar (Ronald J. Goret, trustee) | Date Fr 7: 1986 | DateTo 7: 1995 |
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| Owner11: | Date Fr 11: | DateTo 11: |
| 1958 Owner: | Virginia M. Cramer. 312 Irr Lots 688 to 697 & 821 to 825 Inc Camden City Sub & Jackson St. Vac Pars 87 to 104. |
| 1975 Owner: | Robert R. & Jeanette Eisle. 688 to 697 & 821 to 825 Camden City & Jackson Street Pars 87 to 104 |
| Description: |
| Story 1: | This was at one time a two family house. Later it was the Marigold Tea Room Restaurant with a wrap around porch on three sides and rocking chairs for guests of the tea room. It was also rumored once to have been a brothel for the railroad workers. |
| Story 2: | The "Marigold Tea Shoppe" was opened c1926/27 in an already existing building by Bertha O'Hara (widow) and her cousin (sister?) Gertrude Grunkemeyer (maiden lady). It closed in 1942 due to gasoline shortage. There was no printed menu. A large sign was by the driveway. It was noted for its fried chicken dinners (quoted in "Adventures in Good Eating", a nationally distributed book). It served groups: weddings, receptions and the Cincinnati Reds baseball team. ("Tea Room" information from Ruth Oberle [333 Harvard] and sister-in-law, Betty Everhart, whose aunts opened the tea room, and Bob O'Hara, son of Bertha O'Hara) |
| Story 3: | Peonies along the walk, relocated in 1999 along the rear terrace, are "peony officionalis" like the peonies at the Errett/Fenton House that were destroyed earlier. Even though the peonies at 435 Elm are no longer visible from the street it's wonderful that they're still growing! |
| Story 4: | When the Cramers owned the house it was full of antiques collected by Mrs. Cramer, some of which were no doubt sold from the house. |
| Story 5: | The Eisle's son, Doug, later lived at 711 Stanton according to the 1982 Terrace Park phone book. |
| Story 6: | Mrs. William Cook France (Ruth Neely France) was a newspaper and public relations woman. When the France family owned 435 Elm, it was known as "France Acre". There is more information on Mrs. France in the "People file" of the TP Historical Society. Ruth Neely France is the sister of Mrs. Simon Ross, 1005 Elm (according to the minutes of the TP Woman's Club, May 21, 1928). |
| Story 7: | February 2005 Eastern Hills Journal - Elm Avenue: Rosenberg, Bart H. to Freshley, Fred & Jill Ann." Is this a triangle of land nearer where the RR bridge was (south of their house)? |
| 1939 Map: | O'Hara & Grunkemeyer |
| 1942 Map: | Minnch |
| 1951/3 Map: | W. C. France |
| 1959 Directory: | Lowell & Virginia Cramer |
| 1960 Directory: | '' |
| 1962-63 Direct: | '' |
| 1963-64 Direct: | '' |
| 1965-66 Direct: | '' |
| 1967-68 Direct: | '' |
| 1969-70 Direct: | Robert & Jeanette Eisele |
| 1971-72 Direct: | '' |
| 1973-74 Direct: | '' |
| 1975-76 Direct: | '' (Sold 1976) |
| 1978 Directory: | Don & Palmer Elsworth |
| 1980 Directory: | William & Sarah Cantwell (moved from 315 Harvard) |
| 1982 Directory: | " |
| 1984 Directory: | " |
| 1986 Directory: | " (Sold 1986) |
| 1988 Directory: | Nat & Gigi Comisar |
| 1990-91 Direct: | " |
| 1992-93 Direct: | " |
| 1994-95 Direct: | " (moved to 906 Miami) |
| 1996-97 Direct: | Dan & Jill Freshly |
| 1998-99 Direct: | " |
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