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219 Oxford Avenue

Terrace Park, Ohio Building Survey

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No: 219  Street: Oxford Name: 
Family: FOR SALE Plaque: 2008 Owner Info: Y
Built: 1910 Sec: 23 Sub: Sibley's Lots 3 & 4 of Camden City Lot: 12-13-14
Architect:  Cont/Build: 
#Owners: 10 Original Use: Residential Current Use: Residential
CHANGES As Built: N Add To: Y Sub From: N Replace: N
2000 - permit for Tom Koustmer to remodel - "remove existing master, add bath and new deck area, attic to bedroom".  Fletcher Homes contractor.  A. W. Schaub at Arcanum architect.  
Current Owner:  Date Fr: 2015 Date To: 
Original Owner: Mary R. Hudson (daughter Dorothy) Date Fr: 1910 Date To: 1929
Owner 1: Dorothy P. Belz Date Fr 1: 1929 Date To 1: 1931
Owner 2: Walter H. Meier Date Fr 2: 1931 Date To 2: 1940
Owner 3: Arthur F. & Sylvia M. Cummins Date Fr 3: 1940 Date To 3:  1951
Owner 4: William H. & Nancy F. Ourand Date Fr 4: 1951 Date To 4: 1956
Owner 5: Maxine Mains McCalla Date Fr 5: 1956 Date To 5: 1969
Owner 6: Carl E. & Alice Pruiss Date Fr 6: 1969 Date To 6: 1972
Owner 7: Dwight L. & Mary S. Osenbaugh Date Fr 7: 1972 Date To 7: 1986
Owner 8: Mark J. & Geralyn J. Daly Date Fr 8: 1986 Date To 8: 1999
Owner 9: Katherine Koustmer Date Fr 9: 1999 Date To 9: 2013
Owner 10: Martha "Mandy" U. & John W. Peck III Date Fr 10: 2013 Date To 10: 2015
Owner 11: Date Fr 11: Date To 11:
Owner 12: Date Fr 12: Date To 12:
Owner 13: Date Fr 13: Date To 13:
Owner 14: Date Fr 14: Date To 14:
Owner 15: Date Fr 15: Date To 15:
1975 Owner:  Dwight L. Osenbaugh. 12-13-14-Sib 1
Description: 3 story yellow brick Traditional home with red  tile roof, gable with 3rd floor dormer: 5 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths.
Story 1:      Mrs. Baldwin moved here from Milford (probably rented) with her 3 children, Bill, Mary Louise and Francis George.  While living on Oxford she sold several Terrace Park lots which she owned.  Helen was given to understand those sales were in order to finance Mary Louise's coming out party at Terrace Park Community House.  Helen did not remember when the Baldwins moved from Terrace Park or why.  Francis George Baldwin was the first person killed from this area in WWII.  He was shot down over Italy.  Thus the Terrace Park American Legion was named for him.  (Information from a Baldwin family descendant and from next door neighbor, Helen Barnett.)
     There's a folder in the TP Historical Society archives on this family with much more information.  Various members of the family owned a lot of land in Terrace Park.  They had a large summer home in Milford, the Ripples.
     This family is not related to the Baldwin piano family.  
Story 2: According to Helen Barnett this house was built c. 1910.  Evidently this was a lot with a lot of trees which is at least partly why Carl and Alice Pruiss bought it.  A great many of these trees went down in the tornado (1969) that went through Terrace Park during the time they owned it.  Thus they moved to 112 Michigan.
Story 3: Dwight L. Osenbaugh was born 24 March 1934 and died 16 May 1975, aged 41 years, buried in Section 20 of Greenlawn Cemetery, Milford OH, Craver Funeral Home. (Another source says he died 9 May, 1975.)
Story 4: This is one of the houses remembered with great fondness by girls in the Terrace Park High School class of 1955.  They remembered wonderful architectural details and the 4 bedrooms in the 4 corners upstairs.  Their Ourand classmate lived here at the time. 
1939 Map: Meier
1942 Map: Cummins
1951/3 Map: Arthur Cummins
1959-60 Directories: Carl & Maxine McCalla
1962-66 Directories: ''    & Mrs. Robert (Della) Konsheim
1967-70 Directories: ''
1971-72 Direct: Carl & Alice Pruiss (moved in 1969 from Madison, CT) (moved to 112 Michigan)
1973-84 Directories: Dwight & Mary Osenbaugh
1986-97 Directories: Mark & Geralyn Daly (Sold 1986)
1998-99 Direct: "    (Sold 1999)
2000-12 Directories: Thomas & Katherine Koustmer