Legacy Version

615 Yale Avenue

Terrace Park, Ohio Building Survey

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No: 615  Street: Yale Name: 
Family: Johnson Owner Info: N
Built: 1929 Sec: 23 Sub: Sibley's 3rd BL 16 Lot: 35-36-39
Architect:  Cont/Build: Carl Schreiber (German)
#Owners: 4F Original Use: Residential Current Use: Residential
CHANGES As Built: N Add To: Y Sub From: N Replace: N
1993 - master bedroom and tile bath built by Craig Martin of Environmetric.  1998 - Gislasons rehabbed the kitchen and created a new doorway  into the living room from the kitchen (JFP Construction, contractor).   
1999 - Bill Gislason remodeled space for a home office (Robert Gray, contractor).  2003 - The Mills enclosed the existing fence to keep their Old English Sheepdog within the property.  
Current Owner: Trevor I. & Alyson Johnson Date Fr: 2016 Date To: 
Original Owner: Albert W. & Alice B. Allison Date Fr: 1929 Date To: 1955
Owner 1: Albert W. & Claire D. Allison (1985 just Claire) Date Fr 1: 1955 Date To 1: 1996
Owner 2: William J. & Julie C. Gislason Date Fr 2: 1996 Date To 2: 2003
Owner 3: Jeffrey & Meghan Mills Date Fr 3: 2003 Date To 3: 2010
Owner 4: Dominik J. & Andrea Beck Date Fr 4: 2010 Date To 4: 2012
Owner 5: Tyler David & Blythe E. Winslow Date Fr 5: 2012 Date To 5: 2016
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1958 Owner: Albert W. & Alice B. Allison.  Lots 35-36-39 Sibley 3rd.
1975 Owner:  Albert W. & Claire Allison
Description: 2 story Cape Cod, siding, steep gable roof with dormers: living room, dining room, kitchen, breakfast nook, master bedroom and bath, porch on 1st floor; 3 bedrooms and bath on 2nd floor. (4 bedrooms, 2 baths when for sale in 2016.  Also best neighbors & block parties in TP!)
Story 1: Meghan Mills reported that when they replaced a bathroom wall, they "discovered the original construction of the room used plaster, grooved to replicate tiles for the bath surround".  "Bill Gislason reported to the Mills that at one point, while under the Allison occupancy, there had been a fire in the attic.  The Gislasons replaced every upstairs ceiling - which were sagging from the water used to extinguish the fire."  Having done some research we now know more about that fire.  It happened when Terrace Park residents were still allowed to burn leaves in the fall.  Evidently the Kennedys across the street were burning leaves and some blew across the street, found leaves in the Allison's gutters and ignited those leaves.  Mr. Allison stored ammunition for hunting in the attic so that had to be hurriedly thrown out or the whole house might have blown up.  Fortunately they succeeded in getting the fire out but with considerable water damage which eventually resulted in the sagging ceilings the Gislasons replaced.  Paul Kennedy and Leslie Jones remember the fire.  
Story 2: Mr. Allison called Don Brown over one time to look at something he had stored in his garage.  Above the rafters he has several 2 inch thick unmilled long planks of walnut.  This walnut came from trees cut down along Wooster Pike when it was widened.  Don couldn't use the walnut and we don't know what happened to it.  
1939 Map: Allison
1942 Map: Allison
1951/3 Map: Allison
1959-68 Directories: Albert W. & Alice Allison
1969-70 Direct:  (Alice died September 18, 1970)
1971-76 Directories: A. W. Allison 
1978-86 Directories: A. W. & Claire Allison
1988-97 Directories: A. W. & Schatzie Allison
1998-2001 Directories: William & Julie Gislason
2002-03 Direct:   (Sold 2003)
2004-05 Direct: Jeffrey & Meghan Mills (moved to 300 Rugby)
2006-07 Direct:  
2008-09 Direct: Pete & Karen Newman (renters?)     (Sold 2010)
2011-12 Directories: Dominik & Andrea Beck
2015 Directory: Tyler David & Blythe E. Winslow (moved to 610 Miami)