Name/Title
Album, PhotographEntry/Object ID
2012.800.3090.001Description
Brown photo album with photos of "Century Homes" in Mentor Township. Starts with note written by M.O. Collacott, 1961 - stating survey of possible century homes - pictures begin at east end or south end of a road. Also has a flat map; date handwritten at top 1857.
Page 1 - Mentor Avenue - 1857 A. Andrews - early sidney Rigdon - later Minch; earliest brick house in Township - built by Goldsmith acc. to Mr. Johnson - destroyed October 1969.
Page 2 - Mentor Avenue - 1857 D. Sawyer - Wayside Gardens - Only stone house in area.
Page 3 - Mentor Avenue - 1857 M. Sawyer now Lewis - Leuktemeyer(?) - owners claim it a Goldsmith so does Mr. Johnson - has historial plaque
Page 4 - Mentor Avenue - do not know whether this is Root or Murry from the 1857 map
Page 5 - Believe center of house quite old but not placed on the 1857 map. 1970 Quagliati's Restaurant; 1942 was T.B. Hauetariam(?); 1900 summer home H.W. Corning
Page 6 - Mentor Avenue - 1857 Shoemaker (he thinks)
Pages 7 and 8 missing
Page 9 - No photo - 1857 Parker - Earl White's house - too many trees to take picture
Page 10 - Mentor Avenue - Fred Greer's house - best example of Steamboat Gothic - office space added at rear 1980.
Page 11 - think this is old don't know that it is 1857 Clapp house circled. Someone said this was Mentor Library. Rev. Worman lived here 1962.
Page 12 - Mentor Avenue - moved to corner of N. Center & Nowlen Street 1960. Ronald Krueger Insurance Office - archetect Abram Garfield
Page 13 - Mentor Avenue - Elizabeth Hanson said this was oldest house in village and it was the Disciple Parsonage.
Page 14 - Burridge - this old Avenue house moved back from Mentor Avenue
Page 15 - Mentor Avenue - historic if you visited Dr. Lowe - 1964 Antique Shop "Old Country Store".
Page 15A - Mentor Avenue - 1857 Kerr - 1962 moved to corner of Murray & Rosebud to make way for Methodist Church new sanctuary
Page 16 - Mentor Avenue - no photo -1857 Murray - History of house on back
Page 17 - Mentor Avenue - 1857 - Branch - 1964 purchased from Eddy's (Iva McCracken) by Dr. Bonnema.
Page 18 - Mentor Avenue - 1857 - Corning now Florence White - built by Goldsmith
Page 19 - Mentor Avenue - On 1857 map cannot read name - Doctor Feldstein 1970 - torn down for Mentor Park Hospital
Page 20 - 1857 - McCleland - Harry Garfield added to this. Corning - Aldrich - owned by Lutheran Church 1970's.
Page 21 - Mentor Avenue - 1857 Carpenter - torn down for Zayre Store complex 1968?
Page 22 - Elizabeth Hanson has been in this house it is old.
Page 23 - Just a photo with no information
Page 24 - Mentor Avenue - 1857 J. Marshall - real estate office now
Page 25 - 1857 ? - between service station & grocery plastered with for sale signs
Page 26 - Mentor - last house in Township on Route 20
Page 27 - 9473 Jackson Street - E. Wagner residence - Mrs. Wagner was an Ingersall
Page 28 - Jackson Street - 1967 present residence of Wayne E. Crookshaks - built by Edward M. Ingersall - has a hertige plaque
Page 29 - Jackson Street - House belonge to the Sagries(?) moved to Jackson Street from Heisley Road by Mr. John Schutz. Purchased 1967 by William Lambert
Page 30 - Jackson Street - Home owned by George Quincy - left and owned by Harold Heinz - home of Mentor Cemetery caretaker - now dead
Page 31 - Jackson Street - 1857 A.M. Parmalee - later Mather - Whites - now Stout has hertiage plaque
Page 32 - Corner of Hopkins & Jackson Street - 1857 D. Hopkins - purchased in 1917 by Mr. Albert D. Hall and is now lived in by his daughter Mrs. B.E. Beavers
Page 33 - Jackson Street - One of seven district schools merged into special district schools. This one formerly the Burridge Sugar Camp (now Henry Penny's). Purchased from Sawyers by Mrs. Fred Parmalee, then by F.W. Parmalee, then David Shanower. Present owner Margaret Parmalee Benice.
Page 34 - Jackson Street - 1857 Erastus Parmalee - builty February 8, 1835 by Abner Parmalee (brother of Erastus). Now owned by Mrs. Robert (Margaret Parmalee) Berius.
Page 35 - Jackson Street - 1857 Munson family - 1964 Heritage Plaque
Page 36 - 7085 Jackson Street - Not on 1857 map - built by Abner Parmalee (Lanswell(?) family)
Page 37 - 7104 Jackson Street, Mentor - not on 1857 map. The home of V. Cleveland father of Francis Cleveland; Librarian of Village Library.
Page 38 - Jackson Street - Owned by George Parsons former caretaker of cemetary
Page 39 - Jackson Street - no photo - Disciple Church moved from corner of Mentor Avenue - slide of it in old position
Page 40 - Ridge Road - In the distance the Heil house
Page 41 - Ridge Road - 1857 - no photo - Root(?) - now Wyant
Page 42 - Ridge Road - Remoded school house point of Chillicothe & Ridge - house of Vernon Groth
Page 43 - Chillicothe - 1857 - Wells - now Mentor Nurseries - no photo
Page 44 - Chillicothe - 1857 Griswold - now Heister(?) - poorly remodeled - no photo
Page 45 - Chillicothe Road - 1857 Sweet - someone badly butchered remodeling this house. Could be Bowman house.
Page 46 - Chillicothe - could not get a picture of the Elton Hoyt house but know it's good. Built for Grandson Newell. Belongs to Joseph Coakley (Bobbie) 1969
Page 47 - Chillicothe - 1857 J. King - Helen Kowalski redid this house.
Page 48 - King Memorial - very dilapidated - this belonged to Henriques or Fords
Page 49 - King Memorial - 1857 - C. Nowlan now Phyllis Page. Burned on purpose 1964 by Henriques or Hubber
Page 50 - King Memorial - 1857 - D. Nowlan now Hubbell
Page 51 - King Memorial - 1857 - Phelps - Edward Mellen & his Beaver Creek Nursery 1960ish
Page 52 - Hoose Road - 1857 - Hoose
Page 53 - Hart Road - 1857 - Hart - Mrs. John Murray lives here - belong to Kirtland Hill Village
Page 54 - Little Mountain - 1857 - Chester Hart - Kiss owns it 1970 - no photo
Page 55 - Little Mountain Road - 1857 - Kemp
Page 56 - Little Mountain Road - 1857 - Clapp
Page 57 - Reynolds - Did not find anything of interest - no photo
Page 58 - Garfield Road - no description - there is a photo
Page 59 - Garfield Road - no description - there is a photo
Page 60 - Garfield Road - Corner Ridge Road - Edison Hill(?)
Page 61 - E. Hanson has been in this house and says it's quite old. No other information.
Page 62 - Center Street - House now occupied by Phillips on Center Street - was owned by Mrs. Lyle Daniels, Jr.; Mr. Littlefield said it once held the Library.
Page 63 - Center Street - In 1920's Casey girls lived here.
Page 64 - Depot Street -
Page 65 - Maple Street - Owned by R.G. Clapp - will become apartments
Page 66 - Hopkins - 1857 - S. Rayford(?) - this house now belongs to the Hawkins
Page 67 - Hopkins -
Page 68 - 1857 - Eleanor Burridge huse from Williams Bros. history. Old picture when it stood on Mentor Avenue. Now school office. Elva Wendling's grandfather lived here when house was on Mentor Avenue.
Page 69 - Hopkins - 1857 - Sawyer Mill
Page 70 - Hopkins - Henry Ingersoll was the original owner (brother of Dr. A.J. Ingersoll)
Page 71 - Hopkins - 1857 - Kneale(?) now Osborn - burned 1965? - No photo
Page 72 - Munson Road - no information or photo
Page 73 - Plains Road - no information or photo
Page 74 - Heisley Road - 1857 - Merry(?)
Page 75 - Heisley - 1857 - Curtis
Page 76 - Heisley - 1857 - Goodall - now Keener
Page 77 - Lake Shore Boulevard - was confused about house; has to go back
Page 78 - No street, or information
Page 79 - 9005 Lake Shore Boulevard - no other information
Page 80 - no address - torn down April, 1965
Page 81 - Lake Shore Boulevard (Route 283)
Page 82 - History of Mentor Headlands pictures
Sheet with short history of home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dyrenforth on Midland and Crossfield; moved to Mentor AvenueCollection
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Album - Height 11 1/2" Width 9 1/2"
Pages - Height 11" Width 8 1/2"