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| No: 300 | Street: Rugby | Name: |
| Family: Mills | OwnerInfo: N |
| Built: circa 1880 (1896?) | Sec: 23 | Sub: Sibley's Lots 3 & 4 of Camden City | Lot: 36-37 |
| Architect: | Cont/Build: A. F. Chapman (information from Startsman) - probably instead expanded house both out and up. |
| #Owners: | 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: Y | Brick: | Stone: | Stucco: | Br&Sid: | OtherM: |
| ROOF: truncated hip with 3rd floor dormer. | Stories: 2 1/2 | |||||
| CHANGES | AsBuilt: | AddTo: Y | SubFrom: | Replace: |
| Judge and Maude Ross added on. 1962 - John Quist extended the garage. 2006 Mills permit to add & remodel - rebuild back porch & garage, add 4'3"x 6'6" to new porch area, update plumbing & electrical (house had become out of code), fence in back yard. Keep existing footprint for all areas in violation of variance code (Randy Knipp contractor, Susan Glaser, architect). New garage & accessory building (Randy Knipp). | ||||
| CurrOwner: Jeffrey D. & Meghan Mills | Date Frc: 2006 | DateToc: |
| OrigOwner: Jacob Schottensels | Date Frm: | DateTo: 1896 |
| Owner1: Harry L. Simmons | Date Fr 1: 1896 | DateTo 1: 1902 |
| Owner2: Samuel F. Baker | Date Fr 2: 1902 | DateTo 2: 1907 |
| Owner3: Algernon F. Chapman | Date Fr 3: 1907 | DateTo 3: 1920 |
| Owner4: Maude Ross | Date Fr 4: 1920 | DateTo 4: 1944 |
| Owner5: Harriet G. & N. H. Cady | Date Fr 5: 1944 | DateTo 5: 1944 |
| Owner6: Emma G & Chris. Becker | Date Fr 6: 1944 | DateTo 6: 1955 |
| Owner7: John D. & Kathryn S. Quist | Date Fr 7: 1955 | DateTo 7: 1962 |
| Owner8: Clifford T. Jr. & Lois M. Weir | Date Fr 8: 1962 | DateTo 8: 1963 |
| Owner9: John D. & Kathryn S. Quist | Date Fr 9: 1963 | DateTo 9: 1971 |
| Owner10: Charles S. & Ruth A. Rockel | Date Fr 10: 1971 | DateTo 10: 2006 |
| Owner11: | Date Fr 11: | DateTo 11: |
| 1975 Owner: | Charles S. & Ruth A. Rockel |
| Description: | Square frame with front porch, 3 stories, 8 rooms. Detached garage and patio. |
| Story 1: | Maude Ross built 210 Rugby after her divorce from Judge Ross. She is listed at 610 Floral on both the 1942 and 1951/3 maps. She is listed as living at 601 Wooster in the 1959 and 1960 Terrace Park phone books (perhaps a renter) and after that at 210 Rugby. |
| Story 2: | Charles Rockel was Mayor of Terrace Park 1981-83. |
| Story 3: | Pat Fehl says Guy Startsman (brother of Dan Sr. at 305 Rugby) lived here at one time???. He was Terrace Park School Board President for a long time. |
| Story 4: | Dan Startsman thought a Ruxton lived here between Ross and Becker. Did her rent? |
| Story 5: | The Mills believe this house originally looked similar to 303 Oxford (1 1/2 stories) with 4 rooms downstairs and pocket doors into the 2 rooms on the left side with a center hallway. One can still see in the cellar the foundation of the 2 fireplaces angled into the 2 left hand rooms similar to what is still in 303 Oxford. One can see a picture of this original house in the background of the first picture of 303 Rugby. The 1912 picture of 300 Rugby shows the home expanded both up and out (2 1/2 stories). There are now two foundations in the cellar. Above that is a long living room on the left, dining room and kitchen on the right. At one time there may have been 3 rooms on the right. We can't explain the 1914 date in the cement cellar floor. The Rockels moved what may have been the original back wall of the house forward on the right to form their kitchen and dining room. One interesting feature of the present house is that the presumably center front door is actually off center, probably caused when the house was expanded out to the right side. (Information from Meghan Mills during rehab of house, added to with discovery of 1912 photograph) |
| Story 6: | According to the Auditor's site this house was built in 1880. |
| Story 7: | Joan Becker Bissell lived at 300 Rugby while she was growing up and attending the Terrace Park school (1944-1955). She "remembers that, in the 40s and 50s, there was a stone wall at precisely the spot marked by the stone porch on the house later moved to 313 Oxford (house moved before Joan lived there). It was just at the top of a slight slope (as seen in the old photo) & had taken on a new form: four low stone walls with two openings, surrounding a square, concrete floor - at ground level, not elevated as in the porch photo. It was the perfect place to "play house" with the older Lloyd children, Phoebe and "Bro". We must have swept that square of concrete a million times!" |
| 1939 Map: | Ross |
| 1942 Map: | Cady |
| 1951/3 Map: | Chris Becker |
| 1959 Directory: | John & Kathryn Quist |
| 1960 Directory: | " (moved to 726 Floral) |
| 1962-63 Direct: | Clifford & Lois Weir (moved from 509 Stanton) |
| 1963-64 Direct: | John & Kathryn "Kay" Quist (moved from 726 Floral) |
| 1965-66 Direct: | '' |
| 1967-68 Direct: | '' |
| 1969-70 Direct: | '' |
| 1971-72 Direct: | '' |
| 1973-74 Direct: | Charles & Ruth Rockel (1972 moved from 717 Myrtle) |
| 1975-76 Direct: | '' |
| 1978 Directory: | '' |
| 1980 Directory: | " |
| 1982 Directory: | " |
| 1984 Directory: | '' |
| 1986 Directory: | '' |
| 1988 Directory: | '' |
| 1990-91 Direct: | '' |
| 1992-93 Direct: | '' |
| 1994-95 Direct: | '' |
| 1996-97 Direct: | '' |
| 1998-99 Direct: | " |
| 2000-01 Direct: | " |
| 2002-03 Direct: | " |
| 2004-05 Direct: | " (moving to Miami Woods) (Chuck died June 13, 2008) |
| 2006-07 Direct: | Jeffrey & Meghan Mills (moved from 615 Yale) (Sold 2006) |
| 2008-09 Direct: | |
| 2010-11 Direct: |