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| No: 608-1 | Street: Myrtle | Name: |
| Family: | OwnerInfo: N |
| Built: 1930 | Sec: 23 | Sub: C. R. Stuntz's Terrace Park | Lot: 10, 11, 12 |
| Architect: | Cont/Build: John Busam |
| #Owners: 2F | Orig Use: Residential | Current Use: torn down (see 608-2) |
| 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: | Stone: | Stucco: Y | Br&Sid: | OtherM: |
| ROOF: hip | Stories: 2 | |||||
| CHANGES | AsBuilt: Y | AddTo: | SubFrom: | Replace: |
| 1995/96 - 1930 house destroyed and 608-2 Myrtle built. | ||||
| CurrOwner: James J. & Gibson B. Burchenal | Date Frc: 1994/5 | DateToc: |
| OrigOwner: Fred Schmidt | Date Frm: 1930 | DateTo: 1942 |
| Owner1: Henry & Sarah C. Kurtz (both died) | Date Fr 1: 1942 | DateTo 1: 1994 |
| Owner2: David Kurtz | Date Fr 2: 1994 | DateTo 2: 1994/5 |
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| 1975 Owner: | Sarah C. Kurtz. Lots 11,12, pt 10 |
| Description: | 2 story white stucco with 2 car garage underneath. Living room, dining room, kitchen with central hall and side screened porch downstairs, 3 bedrooms, study and bath upstairs. |
| Story 1: | Henry and Sarah Kurtz both sang in the St. Thomas Church choir for many years. Sarah was from the White Mountains in NH and went back there every summer. The last memory of Sarah by a neighbor on a very snowy day just before she moved out of the area was of Sarah calling in her son David for maple sugar on snow - certainly a New England tradition. |
| Story 2: | John Busam, builder, owned several properties in the Myrtle/Home block. This house was built for his daughter who was married to Fred Schmidt, interior decorator in Oakley. John Busam also built 315 Harvard for John Schmidt's aunt and uncle H. A. Ratterman. Mrs. Ratterman and Mrs. Fred Schmidt must have been sisters, daughters of John Busam. John Schmidt was 5 years old when his parents moved into the 608 Myrtle home. He once told Patti Normile that one summer he had the job of stenciling house numbers on the edge of the street. I wonder if that was when Terrace Park houses first got street numbers. In later life John Schmidt (now dead) had a superb eye for mixing paint colors - a real art! |
| 1939 Map: | Schmidt |
| 1942 Map: | Kurtz |
| 1951/3 Map: | Henry J. Kurtz |
| 1959 Directory: | Henry & Sarah Kurtz |
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