General Information

Stories:

Story 1: The first building on the lot was a 3 bedroom frame house believed by a descendent of Sibley to be one of the 1st houses he built in Terrace Park c1886. The 1892 map shows only this building in the 400 block of Terrace Place. By 1891 it was owned and occupied by H. W. Gegner when Harriet was appointed postmaster which she combined with storekeeping. In 1895 Village Council voted to meet on Gegner's second floor. Council stayed here only a short time before moving to the second floor of 415 Terrace Place. In 1903 the post office also moved down the street to 415 Terrace Place with Lucius Conkling and his wife (Lillian 1920) as successive postmasters. Briefly their daughter was postmaster next in a little building across Harvard on what is now the Village Green. The post office returned to the first floor of 411 in 1921 with Lulu Tarvin as postmaster with her two sons as helpers. They continued to operate the store. Next Lillian Droescher ran the combined post office and store from 1925 for the next 25 years. She lived at the rear of the 1st floor, had the post office in front and rented the upstairs to the Terrace Park Building and Loan Association. (see story 1, 409 Terrace Place)
When Effie Miller, postmaster, moved the post office next door in the new building in 1953, the Terrace Park Building and Loan moved into the vacant first floor and stayed until 1956/7 when they moved to Wooster Pike. The Terrace Park Realty Inc. occupied the first floor in 1959. There may have been other renters before "Boots" Duesing rented and then purchased the building from Dreoscher for his Graduate Services business. John G. Jones purchased the building in 1988 and continued the business. The building was demolished in 1990 and replaced by the present brick structure (Jim Nordloh, architect and Norval Julnes, builder).