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Sixth Avenue

403 Sixth Avenue

Lot and Block Lots 9 & 10, Block 16
Old Lots 10-12?, Block 6
Name  
Built by 1913
Assessment records indicate 1875
Built by  
Style Carpenter Gothic
Owner(s) Lot 10 Amanda J Cashell, 1895 (#452) - original owner Nettie B Logan, 1903 (#625)
Lot and Block Lots 9-10 Mabel D Miller, 1924 (#1100) Mabel D. Miller & Anna MacElwee, 1935 Joseph & Annie M. Nuttall, by 1946 Maude S. Nuttall (liber 2164 folio 128) Maria F. Williams, 21 November 1968 (liber 3811 folio 352) Earnest Lee & Marlene S. Fisher, 3 September 1971 (liber 4117 folio 734)
Remarks In 1911 house on lot 9 moved to lot 11 (405 Sixth Avenue) by Nettie B. Logan. House on Lot 10. A J Cashell, resident of Redland, Md, listed at this lot in 1893 Voting List. According to assessment records house was rented as of 6 February 1968.
Sources Town Directories, Wilkerson file; Summary of Washington Grove Assn deeds, 1935-37, Land Records, Town Archives; 1893 Voting List; Register of Stock Certificates; Phil Edwards notes; Assessment records; Logan-Walker correspondence 25 August 1913; 1946 tax list; Town recorrds

405 Sixth Avenue

Lot and Block Lot 11-12+, Block 16
Old Lots 13-14, Block 6
Name  
Built c. 1894 - 1911. House moved to site 1911
Built by  
Style  
Owner(s) Lot 9: Eliza S Miller, 1894 (#404) - original owner
James K McCathran, 1895 (#469) - original owner
James T Harrison, 1895 (#474)
James K McCathran, 1901 (#562)
Nettie B Logan, 1911 (#800)
Walter B. Isherwood, 1922 to 1943 (#1064)
Charles T. Hiller, 1943
H. F. & D. E. Sylvester, by 1953
Virginia Richardson, by 1957
Elizabeth Morgan, by 1966
Ben H. & Vivienne Hall (liber 1991 folio 154 and liber 2401 folio 70)
Laurence W. & Yvonne D. Miller, 12 August 1971 (liber 4107 folio 660)
Gregory H. Fess & Carol S. Rosin, 31 January 1978 (liber 5085 folio 706)
John C. Brasunas & Kathleen A. McCann, Dec 1988
Remarks In 1906 former house moved from lot 11 to 119 Maple Avenue by J. K. McCathran. In 1911 present house moved to lot 11 from Lot 9 by Nettie B. Logan. Stock attached to lot between 1901 and 1911. Assessment records indicate contract for remodeling in 1964 (job not completed by original contractor); also that house was rented as of 6 February 1968.
Sources Edwards, 204; Town Directories; Wilkerson file; Real estate listing, 1988; Summary of Washington Grove Assn deeds, 1935-37, Land Records, Town Archives; 1944 newspaper clipping; Register of Stock Certificates; Assessment records; 1943 deed Isherwood-Miller; 1953 delinquent tax list; Logan-Walker correspondence 25 July 1912 and 25 August 1913.

407 Sixth Avenue

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Remarks Removed c.1957-60
Sources Town Directory, Maps

409 Sixth Avenue

Lot and Block Lots 13-14, Block 16
Old Lots 18-19, Block 6
Name The Dorsey Cottage
Built Assessment records indicate 1895
Built by  
Style  
Owner(s) Mrs. Virginia Darby, 1893 (#324) to Maud H Dorsey
Mrs. Mary E Dorsey, 1893 (#323), Maud H Dorsey (#352), J T Warfield (#328)
Lot and Block Lots 13-14 Samuel G. Parker, 1911 (#801) Dr. A.C. Merriam, 1916 ($300) for Major Walker Mary K. Dunne, by 1946 Elmer & Eliza Ivanyi, by 1957 (liber 2127 folio 36)
Remarks Parker had first stock attached to this site. Stock transferred to Parker in 1893 from Dorseys and Warfield. Appears in assessment records as lot 13 block 16.
Sources Directory; Parker letter, Land Records, Town Archives; Register of Stock Certificates; Assessment records; 1946 tax list; Town records
 

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