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| No: 409 | Street: Terrace Place | Name: |
| Family: Miller leased to U. S. Post Office | OwnerInfo: Y |
| Built: 1953 | Sec: 23 | Sub: Sibley's Lots 3 & 4 of Camden City | Lot: 111 |
| Architect: Post Office Department of the US | Cont/Build: Walter Gingrich |
| #Owners: 1 | Orig Use: Commercial - Post Office | Current Use: Commercial |
| STYLE | Ranch: | Split: | Colonial: | Victorian: | Trans: | Trad: | Other: |
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| CATALOGUE | Sears: | Gunn: | Pease: | BH&G: | Pattern: | OtherC: |
| MATERIAL | Siding: | Brick: | Stone: | Stucco: | Br&Sid: Y | OtherM: |
| ROOF: gable | Stories: 1 | |||||
| CHANGES | AsBuilt: Y | AddTo: | SubFrom: | Replace: |
| CurrOwner: Dale L. Miller | Date Frc: 1983 | DateToc: |
| OrigOwner: Effie R. Miller | Date Frm: 1952 | DateTo: |
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| Owner10: Stella Cole | Date Fr 10: 1929 | DateTo 10: |
| Owner11: lots in 1925 Cath Smith & Mary Concannon | Date Fr 11: | DateTo 11: |
| 1975 Owner: | Effie R. Miller. Ir 111 Sib 1 (listed at 407) |
| Description: | Brick building built as specified by the Post Office Department to be leased by them. |
| Story1: | The present post office was built in 1953 on an empty lot purchased by Stan Miller in 1952 from Stella C. Cole. Walt Gingrich built the post office to Post Office Department specifications and Effie Miller still held the lease to the postal service in 2000. Until 1971 the U. S. Postal Service did not exist. "It is a private corporation with authority from Congress to transport the U. S. mail. Previously and since the inception of the United States of America, there was the Post Office Department, an arm of the federal government" Our Post Office was built after talks with the Post Office Department (clarification by Lee Stegemeyer). |
| According to Stan Miller (Effie's husband) the first Post Office was in the grocery store (corner of Terrace Place and Harvard). The 2nd was in a small building on what became the Village Green. The third was in a building now torn down (411-1 Terrace Place, Gegner, Droescher) from 1925 to 1953 when the present Post Office was built. See Story 2 411-1 for a slightly different beginning to the story. | |
| Story 2: | Paul Wise, clerk in the Post Office, was found dead on Marian Lane delivering mail, March 4, 1976) |
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