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| No: 614 | Street: Floral | Name: |
| Family: Byers | OwnerInfo: Y |
| Built: 1925 or 1928 | Sec: 23 | Sub: C. R. Stuntz | Lot: 30-31 |
| Architect: | Cont/Build: |
| #Owners: 3F | Orig Use: Residential | Current Use: Residential |
| STYLE | Ranch: | Split: | Colonial: Y | Victorian: | Trans: | Trad: | Other: |
| CapeC: | Bung: | Eng: | Dutch: | Cont: | Misc: | ||
| CATALOGUE | Sears: | Gunn: | Pease: | BH&G: | Pattern: | OtherC: |
| MATERIAL | Siding: | Brick: Y | Stone: | Stucco: | Br&Sid: | OtherM: |
| ROOF: gable | Stories: 2 1/2 | |||||
| CHANGES | AsBuilt: Y | AddTo: | SubFrom: | Replace: |
| CurrOwner: Todd & Deidre Byers | Date Frc: 2005 | DateToc: |
| OrigOwner: Harry E. King | Date Frm: 1928 | DateTo: 1931 |
| Owner1: Voigt & Lucille Proctor | Date Fr 1: 1931 | DateTo 1: 1944 |
| Owner2: James Long & Mary E. Chapman Jr. | Date Fr 2: 1944 | DateTo 2: 1973 |
| Owner3: Mary E. Chapman Tr. | Date Fr 3: 1973 | DateTo 3: 2005 |
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| 1975 Owner: | Mary E. Chapman |
| Description: | Brick painted white. |
| Story 1: | Harry E. King had this house built for his family. His wife's name was Mary Ellis King and she taught piano and was the music teacher at the Terrace Park School for 18 years. She won a prize for writing the school song ("Terrace Park we sing to thee, Raise our joyful shouts in glee") and another prize for a city wide music contest. She had studied at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. They lived at 401 Stanton while their house was being built. Before that they lived at 303 Oxford and before that in Milford where Joan was born. There were 5 children: Ruth, Harry Ellis "Bud", Joan (pronounced Joanne) "Jody" (now Gambs), Mary Louise and David. From here they moved to Mariemont. Jody went through the 5th grade at Terrace Park School. In Mariemont they lived on Denny Place while another grand home was being built for them on Miami Avenue. It was a big house with pillars. After losing that house to the Depression they moved to Chestunt Street, Park Avenue in Terrace Park (across from Liza Jane Brown, 729 Park?), the corner of Erkenbrecher and Drury in Avondale and then to Resor in Clifton. From there Jody was married. She has moved 33 times in her life and has liked every place, finding that there are wonderful people everywhere. (Jody King Gambs) |
| Story 2: | Stewart Proctor's parents, Voigt and Lucille Proctor, lived here from 1931-1944. Then they moved to 3 places in Milford before moving back to Terrace Park in 1958. Voigt is Stu Proctor's grandmother's maiden name on his father's side. |
| Story 3: | Stewart Proctor says the Chapman family belonged to the Chapman Dairy family. They ran a small dairy on Shawnee Run across from where Park comes in and they delivered milk to Terrace Park customers until the time when milk sold had to be pasteurized. |
| Story 4: | From Village views article September 1998: "A favorite memory of
Terrace Park resident Mary Chapman is driving a red-spring pony cart, drawn by Happy the
pony while delivering corn to customers. 'My father had a barn on Water Street in
Milford where he contracted out horse and buggies. One summer I had a lot of fun
selling corn out of my own wagon. It was 15 cents for a dozen ears.' Mary also
recalls dong a lot of reading in the summer when young. 'We lived across the street
from the library, and I spent many a summer afternoon there reading books." Mary graduated from Milford High School; she moved to Terrace Park with her husband 55 years ago, when their children, Jim, Nan and Sally (Augspurger at 1 Given Lane & now in MI), were young. They have moved away but enjoy visiting her in the white brick home of their youth on Floral Avenue. Mary keeps her own home and does her own grocery shopping. 'They won't let me mow the yard anymore, but I do everything else.' When widowed over 20 years ago she began babysitting for employment. 'I have watched children in a number of families in Terrace Park, some of them for years,' Mary recounts. She also worked during WW II on the night shift at GE, taking readings from engine tests." |
| Story 5: | Lots more information about and from the family in the Terrace Park Historical Society archives. (Connection to the Conkling family - 615 Amherst and the store). |
| 1939 Map: | Proctor (parents of Stewart Proctor, 701 Miami) |
| 1942 Map: | Voigt Proctor (Lucille died Jan 3, 1964) |
| 1951/3 Map: | James Long Chapman Jr. |
| 1959 Directory: | James L. & Mary Chapman |
| 1960 Directory: | '' |
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| 1969-70 Direct: | '' (James died September 9, 1970.) |
| 1971-72 Direct: | Mary E. Chapman |
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| 1978 Directory: | '' |
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| 2004-05 Direct: | " (Mary died April 18, 2007) (Sold 2005) |
| 2006-07 Direct: | Todd & Diedre Byers |
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