Stories:

Story 1: The house was built on land formerly owned by Gladys Green of 625 Myrtle. When the house went up she was not pleased it turned out to be 2 story. There was a gate in the fence between 625 and 629 Myrtle. It was locked with a padlock when the fence went up. However the gate may have been used by Vernon Peterson's father when he lived here and frequently visited Gladys.

Story 2: The Peterson girls (Anne & Mary) came to Terrace Park for their Terrace Park School reunions in 2007, stopped by and toured the house. Their father was a Chemical Engineer and worked for DuPont in their film department - cellophane & Mylar. He was not in WWII since he was considered to be in an essential business. Both parents were graduates of Iowa Sate. They met on a blind date in Buffalo. Delores was a dietician. The basement room under the back room was built to be Vern's shop. He built several pieces of furniture including several beds, end tables, book cases etc. Cherry was his favorite wood (also of the Coles). The desks and bookcases in the upstairs girl's rooms were his idea.

Story 3: Several foreigners have lived in this house: from Britain, France, Germany, Finland, Turkey, Tunisia, Costa Rica, Jordan and Norway; many others for short periods of time.
Story 4: Cathi White (formerly at 707 Myrtle-1) reminded us in October of 2005 that the Vaughan family also lived in this house. They did not own it and their name did not appear in any Terrace Park Directory since they did not live here very long. When a home is rental property names of residents are often missed. The Richard Vaughn family were the first renters followed by the Watermans from England, the Cassins from France, the Reynolds (later at 620 Floral), and Jerry & Heather Lewis.
Story 5: The kitchen cabinets were definitely custom made, perhaps by Hume Corwin (733 Indian Hill) since that's the kind of work he did. (Joanne Kennedy). However, according to Dick Werner's son, his father, Harry Werner, may have put them in. They did work together with Walt Gingrich on many houses and probably Dick was the finer finished carpenter. Harry Werner (808 Lexington), put in the hardwood floors as he did in many other Terrace Park homes.

Vern Peterson died in Sun City, AZ, 6 April 1978. Petersons moved from TP to 10027 Andover Avenue, Sun City AZ 85351.

There was a hitching post next to the driveway just outside the garage door. It stood originally outside the M. D. Greene Lumber Company in Auburn NY. It was moved from there to Cronk's Half Acre in Wellesley MA and then to Terrace Park. The M. D. Greene Lumber Co. belonged to Carol Cronk Cole's grandfather, M. D. Greene, so the hitching post played an important role in the everyday activities of an ancestor of owners of this Terrace Park home.  It was moved back to Cronks Rocky Woodland in Wellesley in 2017-18.

Bob and Ann Hopkins moved here from 710 Myrtle and owned 629 Myrtle only a short time before they were sent to Germany and sold the house to the Cole family.  The Coles lived in it only a year when they were sent to England but, when the Hopkins were sent home and wanted to buy the house back, the Coles wanted to keep it since they anticipated being gone only 2-3 years.  They ended up staying in Englad 8 years before they were sent home.  The Hopkins moved to 4 Lexington Circle and then back to California where they came from.  After many years there, they moved back to the Cincinanti area.