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611 Myrtle Avenue

Terrace Park, Ohio Building Survey

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No: 611  Street: Myrtle Name: 
Family: Owner Info: Y
Built: 1948-9 Sec: 23 Sub: C. R Stuntz's Terrace Park Lot: 15-16
Architect: Wilbur M. Firth (Oakley) Cont/Build: Robert J. Kramer?
#Owners: 3F Original Use: Residential Current Use: Residential
CHANGES As Built: N Add To: Y Sub From: N Replace: N
1996 - permit for Richard & Dale Johnsen to make an addition.
Current Owner:  Date Fr: 2014 Date To: 
Original Owner: Edwin & Edna Sonntag Date Fr: 1948 Date To: 1989
Owner 1: Dorothy L. Sonntag  Date Fr 1: 1989 Date To 1: 1994
Owner 2: Richard & Dale Sonntag Johnsen Date Fr 2: 1894 Date To 2: 2004
Owner 3: Louis & Kelly Thibodeaux Date Fr 3: 2004 Date To 3: 2007
Owner 4: Philip M. & Linda M. Charlton Date Fr 4: 2007 Date To 4: 2011
Owner 5: Thomas R. Wagner Date Fr 5: 2011 Date To 5: 2014
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1975 Owner:  Edna M. Sonntag
Description: 1 story brick & siding Colonial Ranch, hip roof - no outbuildings.  Architect designed/individually built.  Flagstone and wood shake/shingle.
Story 1: Dale Sonntag moved to Terrace Park in 1943 with her parents and sister, Dorothy.  They lived at 712 Lexington and 726 Floral before building and moving here.  She reports the information below about her parents and sister.
  Edwin Sonntag was Vice Mayor of Terrace Park (daughter says he said "Mayor of Vice"),  Head of R. L Polk Co. in Cincinnati.
  Edna belonged to local clubs, was on church council at St. Thomas Church and was Treasurer of Children's Hospital Coffee Shop.
  Dorothy was Assistant treasurer of WKRC, treasurer of the Neediest Kids of All of which she was one of the founders and St. Thomas Church Historian.  She had a   Ph. D. and taught geography at the University of Cincinnati.
Story 2: Dale Sonntag Johnsen reports the following about her husband Richard:  He is also a Ph. D. and taught thermodynamics at the University of Michigan and  was Head of the Graduate Engineering School there.  He is the author of 10 engineering books 1 of which is considered the Bible of thermodynamics.  His books have been translated into 14 languages.  He was an advisor/consultant to NASA in its early years.
Story 3: Edwin J. Sonntag died September 2, 1970.  Edna Marie Sonntag was born 16 November 1896 and died 13 March 1989, aged 92 years, buried Rose Hill Cemetery, Chicago IL.  Dorothy died but we don't know when. 
1951/3 Map: E. J. Sonntag
1959-72 Directories: E. J. "Ed" & Edna Sonntag
1973-93 Directories: Mrs. E. D. (Edna) Sonntag
1994-99 Directories: Richard & Dale Johnsen (Dale is a Sonntag daughter)
2000-01 Direct: "     (Richard died)
2002-03 Direct: Mrs. Richard (Dale) Johnsen
2004-05 Direct: "     (Sold 2004)
2006-07 Direct: Louis & Kelly Thibodeaux         (Sold 2007)
2008-12 Directories: Philip & Linda Charlton