Eastern Ave, Cherry St, Sheldon, Commerce

 Isabella Home 200 Eastern Ave SE

The Pasadena 120 Eastern SE

330 Eastern Ave SE

This was the Eggebeen Funeral Home when I was young. I went to Central High School with their daughter. She invited me on a  tour of the mortuary. Silly me, I declined. I was afraid I'd run into a ghost.

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The real estate card dated 1987 states: Victorian Mansion , 14 rooms, approx. 5,000 square feet, three baths, four fireplaces, built about 1880, gravity gas heat, full basement, brick exterior, 40-car parking lot.

City Assessor:

                          
1936 WPA                                          c. 1951                    commercial notes         c. 2005

220 Eastern Ave SE

This was right next door to the Isabella Home so I saw it almost every day.

The real estate card date 1972 states: stucco, full basement,
1st floor - 4 units: Living room, dining area, kitchen, bedroom, bath $90-$115
2nd floor - 4 units: Living room, dining area, kitchen, bedroom, bath $70 - $105
3rd floor - 4 units: Living room, dining area, kitchen, bedroom, bath $85 -$95
tenants pay own electric.
Rear house: 1 - Living room, dining room, 3 bedrooms $125
                       2 - Living room, kitchen bedroom, bath (furnished) $120
off street parking for 20 cars,

City Assessor:

1936   1973   2005

The 1951 assessor card states: 12 apts on top but 14 units at $600 at the bottom, heavy wood frame construction, 3 stories at 2823 sq ft per floor, stucco and brick exterior, plain ext. trim. tar and gravel roof, full concrete basement with cement floor, pine interior trim, hardwood floors, hot water with gas burner, 12 baths, 12 rooms on each floor, 12 3-rm apts, built 1920. (assume the dining area is not a separate room).

The house in the rear has been torn down. Now owned by Project Rehab.

822 Eastern Ave SE

City Assessor                                                                        The Big Red

  1941                

4 apartments, average brick construction, brick and imitation brick siding, plain exterior trim, compos shingles, partial basement with concrete floor, pine trim, hardwood floors, plaster walls and ceiling, hot air, converted, blower, 4 baths,
4 3-room apts. Remodeled 1937. 1242 sq feet on each floor.

When I inspected the house next door I really wanted to inspect this house too but never got the chance.

Real Estate Card: 4 units, living room, kitchen with eating area,  bedroom and bath in each unit. 4 garages.
One card says 3 bedrooms in each apt.

828 Eastern Ave SE

1941  1968

Real Estate Card dated 1967 states: Living Room, Dining Room, kitchen, 3 bedrooms, bath, full basement.

I inspected this house many times and really liked it. It was so cute. A side door on the south opens into a back hall that included stairs to the basement and an entrance to the kitchen which was one step up. Through the kitchen you entered the central hallway - left to the living room , right to the bedrooms. There was a stairway up to an unfinished attic. I can't remember anymore but perhaps the stairs had to be pulled down with a rope. The rear door is off a bedroom and can be seen in the photo of 822 Eastern.

  139 Sheldon

The red building with a turret was a trolley car station. When I was a little girl, the inside was still as original but no longer used and rather messy. My father went in but wouldn't let me. Now it's part of a newer yellow building at 139 Sheldon Ave SE. The big building on the left was a Moose Hall. Now it's a homeless kitchen.

801 Cherry St SE

The real estate cards date from 1957: One stucco building and two 2-family. Value is in the land. Buldings of little value.
Unsure if it includes two houses behind the corner building or to the east.  When I worked at the Isabella Home across the street it was a modern big-windows IBM building surrounded by parking lots.

When I worked at the Cop Shop we stopped at the Crispus Attucks branch of the American Legion. Later it burned down.
The second picture sure looks like a stable. It was dark when I went there and I don't remember much.

Thanks to Kim Rush for these photos.

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