202 Harvard Avenue
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No: Stre
Street: Harvard (originally 414 Miami)
House Name:
Historic Plaque:
Owner Info: N
Built: N
Sec: 23
Subdivision: Sibley's Lots 3 & 4 of Camden City
Lot: Irr
Architect:
Cont/build: J. W. Sibley?
Description:
2 story Victorian, siding, gable roof:
4 bedrooms and 2.5 baths.
Original Use: Residential
Current Use: Residential
CHANGES:
As Built: N
Added To: Y
Subtracted From: N
Replaced: N
Description Of Changes: Street: Harvard (originally 414 Miami) pt 83-84 (same as 214 Harvard?) 1967 - Hank & Nancy Neighbors built the garage. 1973 - Tom & Janet Stollmaier added the family room. 1975 - Stollmaiers added a shed to the garage for storage. 1977 - Stollmaiers added a 2nd floor master bedroom. 1982 - Stollmaiers removed the old cesspool and leach lines and put in a septic system. 1993 - permit for Clare & Brett Richart to convert a closet to a half bath, build a front porch over a stoop and build a side porch over a slab (Otto Bauer-Nilsen Jr., architect; Jim Wengert, contractor) - also Richarts say they had a new kitchen and roof. 1996 - permit for the Richerts to remodel 2 bathrooms (Mark McConnell, architect; Steve Barber, contractor). 2007 permit for Doug Burgess to make a 2nd story addition and build a deck (Michaelson Homes).
Shows earliest property ownership records
Stories:
Story 1: 1891 listing at corner of Miami & Harvard: Nicholas Conrady - tailor, Lulu Conrady - seamstress. 1897 (same address) Charles Underwood - painter. 1911-12 Directory: John Grace (Julia) - plasterer.Story 2: This house cannot have been built in 1895, as the Auditor's office lists, since the Conradys were listed as living there in 1891. J. W. Sibley bought the property in 1885 and the Conrady's bought it from him in 1886, which would make Mrs. Rixey's building date of 1888 make sense.
Story 3: This house originally faced Miami (414 Miami) and the living room was two rooms with a fireplace on each side. Every room had a fireplace which the Gingrichs removed. When the Stollmaiers bought the house there was still a flour grinder on the kitchen wall. Mrs. Rixey said the house was built in 1888. She also said two sisters each had a house on the street - 202 and 214 Harvard. Between them was farm land with arbors, chickens, cows and gardens. Mrs. Rixey played in the house growing up.
Story 4: K. M. J. (Cecelia or Seal) Grace (listed as owner #2) probably never lived here but owned a lot of property in Terrace Park and other areas but lived in Hyde Park. She is a sister of John Grace (listed as owner on the 1939 map of Terrace Park), who was a painter and plasterer. He married Julie Moran of 214 Harvard.
Story 5: Hank & Nancy Neighbors' son James Clark Neighbors was born 6 May 1955 and died (aged 24 years) 4 May 1980, buried 10 May 1980 in Spring Grove Cemetery.
Nancy Foshay Neighbors was born 16 March 1930 in Cincinnati OH to Dr. Lee and Harriett B (Holmes) Foshay. She died 1 September 2020 age 90 at Marjorie P. Lee Nursing Home in Cincinnati OH.
The Wickemeyer family moved from here to the Chicago area of Illinois. At the time their son was in the 8th grade. They loved living in Terrace Park but were also happy living in Illinois.