The 'Hood in 1935
It may be hard to see without enlarging this photo first. Our house is just north of The Christian & Missionary Alliance church. (It is still a church, but the name of it is escaping me right now.) My backyard is the lot numbered 193 and the house numbered 26. I'm wondering what the building numbered 25 would have been. For carriage or an outhouse? It is now the location of the carport. This is Bri helping Mark fix the roof before we bought the house 2 years ago. The house behind her would be 24 on the map.
This view seems so old that it is hard to imagine that our house was built 45 years prior. I would love to find a plat dated earlier, but this is the only one I have found for my neighborhood. Can anyone recommend plat reading tips? Interesting things to look for? As always, I look forward to comments and any information to help me make sense of this old house.
It may be hard to see without enlarging this photo first. Our house is just north of The Christian & Missionary Alliance church. (It is still a church, but the name of it is escaping me right now.) My backyard is the lot numbered 193 and the house numbered 26. I'm wondering what the building numbered 25 would have been. For carriage or an outhouse? It is now the location of the carport. This is Bri helping Mark fix the roof before we bought the house 2 years ago. The house behind her would be 24 on the map.
This view seems so old that it is hard to imagine that our house was built 45 years prior. I would love to find a plat dated earlier, but this is the only one I have found for my neighborhood. Can anyone recommend plat reading tips? Interesting things to look for? As always, I look forward to comments and any information to help me make sense of this old house.
posted by Shawni at 10:02 PM
4 Comments:
It looks like some of the lots have been combined since this plat was drawn. You might check the land records (and property taxes) at the county courthouse. Start with yourself, when you purchased the property, and trace backwards through all the previous owners. It could give some insight into when improvements were made and what they may have been.
You might see if you can locate a Sandborn map at your library or possibly a government office. These are insurance maps of cities that go back pretty far--I found my home which was built in 1896 in the 1898 map.
Find where the county records are kept and find the original H.G. Arnold tract plats. There should be a record of them. There should also be old deed records at the same location as well as birth death and marriage records. Here in Dayton we can go back to the 1850s on most things and some records go back to the 1820s.
By the 1890s good records were available.
If you have the original owners name you can also look through county biographies which were popular in the early 1900s and the geneology department of the main branch of the county library may have city directories and biography books.
Thanks guys for the info! I'm off work tomorrow, so maybe I will look into it.
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