Terrace Park, Ohio Building Survey

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No: 609  Street: Miami Name: LeBlond Summer Home
Family: Grever OwnerInfo: N
Built: 1902c/10 Sec: 23 Sub: Sibley's 3rd BL 18 Lot: 19-26, pt 18
Architect: not known Cont/Build: not known
#Owners:  Orig Use: Summer home  Current Use: Residential
STYLE Ranch:  Split:  Colonial:  Victorian:  Trans:  Trad:  Other: 
  CapeC:  Bung:  Eng:  Dutch: Y Cont:  Misc: 
CATALOGUE Sears:  Gunn:  Pease:  BH&G:  Pattern:  OtherC: 
MATERIAL Siding: Y Brick:  Stone:  Stucco:  Br&Sid:  OtherM: 
ROOF: gambrel Stories:
CHANGES AsBuilt:  AddTo: Y SubFrom:  Replace: 
1983 - extended and remodeled the garage (drawing in permit file).  2006 - Grever permit - interior alterations - relocate kitchen, powder room & stairs to basement; renovation of master bath; relocate laundry to 2nd floor (Michaelson Homes, Laura Deal-Stankorb, designer).  
CurrOwner: :Elaine P. Grever Date Frc: 2006 DateToc: 
Owner: Richard K. LeBlond Date Fr: 1913 Date To: 1921
Owner: Cincinnati Business Woman's Club Date Fr: 1921 DateTo: 1924
Owner1: Leonora V. & F. A. Terry Date Fr 1: 1924 DateTo 1: 1936
Owner2: Roma B. Flint  Date Fr 2: 1936 DateTo 2: 1946
Owner3: Walter & Julia K. Vail Date Fr 3: 1946 DateTo 3: 1948
Owner4: Fred A. Dowd Family (in 1951-3ish & 1956) Date Fr 4: 1948 DateTo 4: 1963 or 5
Owner5: John & Anne Heisler  Date Fr 5: 1963 or 5 DateTo 5: 1974
Owner6: William J. & Barbara H. Ryan Date Fr 6: 1974 DateTo 6: 1975
Owner7: Rodger M. & Ellen M. Miller Date Fr 7: 1975 DateTo 7: 1988
Owner8: Antonie & Elizabeth P. Vissers Date Fr 8: 1988 DateTo 8: 1991
Owner9: Margaret M. & K. Scott Starks Date Fr 9: 1991 DateTo 9: 2006
Owner10:  Date Fr 10:  DateTo 10: 
(see Wlm. D. Hayes 2002 research file) Date Fr 11:  DateTo 11: 
1975 Owner:  William J. & Barbara H. Ryan. 19 to 26, pt 18 Sib 3
Description:  
Story 1: At least by 1913 this became the LeBlond summer home with property extending down the block and with an outdoor dance floor on the south side of the house.  Friends came out from the city to swim in the river and to attend gala outdoor parties.  Kindergarten classes were once held in the present garage (Ann and Peggy Gatch attended).  River stone fireplace, beamed living room ceiling and  screen porch.
Story 2: Miller scrapbooks (copy in house notebook) - 11/10/1956 - home of Mr. and Mrs.  Fred Dowd.  Article by Polly Cramer with interior photos.  "Middle aged white frame house was the summer home of a Cincinnati industrialist back in the days when Terrace Park was a riverside resort.. 
Story 3: We've been told it was  the summer clubhouse of the "Cincinnati Woman's Club".  This may or may not be true.  However, in 1921 owner Richard LeBlond sold it to the Cincinnati Business Woman Club.  They owned it until 1924.  
Story 4: Re owner 2 to owner 3:  Real estate clipping says "Acquired by Walter and Julia Vail from Roma B. Flint".  Description at the time reads, "Frame four-bedroom-and-two-bath dwelling... lot measurement is 150 by 300 feet."  Sale by Robert Flandreau, an associate of the Robert J. Kramer Realty Co.   Picture attached.  (Roma B. Flint & Albert D. Flint listed this address as their residence in July 1940 when they signed the Initiative Petition for TP Recreation Club.)
Story 5: This home was on the 1992 TP Garden Club House Tour (An Historic Walk Through Terrace Park).  
1939 Map: Flint
1942 Map: Flint
1951/3 Map: Fred A. Dowd
1959 Directory: Fred A. & Kay Dowd 
1960 Directory: ''
1962-63 Direct: Fred A. Dowd
1963-64 Direct: John & Anne Heisler
1965-66 Direct: ''
1967-68 Direct: '' & Mrs. Ruth R. Hardin
1969-70 Direct: '' ''
1971-72 Direct: '' ''
1973-74 Direct: '' '' (Sold 1974)
1975-76 Direct: William & Barbara Ryan (moved from 153 Wrenwood) (Sold 1975)
1978 Directory: Rodger & Ellen Miller (moved from 107 Red Bird
1980 Directory: "
1982 Directory: "
1984 Directory: ''
1986 Directory: ''  (moved to Hyde Park)  (Rodger died 2007)
1988 Directory: Antonie & Elizabeth Vissers
1990-91 Direct: ''
1992-93 Direct: Scott & Margaret Starks
1994-95 Direct: ''
1996-97 Direct: ''
1998-99 Direct: "
2000-01 Direct: "
2002-03 Direct: "
2004-05 Direct: "
2006-07 Direct: "   (Grevers moved from 608 Yale)  (Sold 2006)
2008-09 Direct:  
2010-11 Direct: