Walking Tour-21 Miller Road-Walking Tour
(South Side of Street)
This house is a cottage bungalow style built in 1925 as one of five in the King-Wompole Plat. A 1938 Community News item said Roy & Helen Gundry were building a garage. The original wood clapboard is covered by aluminum siding. In the 1980s a pent roofed dormer was added to the south side of the second story.
Official Property Description:
- This Property was not a Part of Nelson W. ClarkÕs Original Plat of the Village in the Northwest 1/4 of Section 20 in Independence Township.
- Lot 3 of the King-Wompole Plat.
Significant Property History:
[A Synopsis Of Property Transfers Derived From Abstracts
(when available) And Periodic Changes In Ownership Or
Assessed Value Derived From Township Tax Records]
- Note: All the properties currently located in the Historic District were originally part of a tract registered by Butler Holcomb with the federal government on October 22, 1831. Thus, abstracts for these properties, when they exist, show the original transfer to be from the United States to Butler Holcomb and may also include references to then President Andrew Jackson.
- 1872 Map of the Village has no building footprint , owner I. (Isador/Esidor ) Jossman.
- 1896 Map of the Village, owner I. Jossman.
- 1926 Gundry, Lot 3, assessed value $1500.
- 1927 Roy Gundry, Lot 3, assessed value $ 1500.
- 1941 Roy Gundry.
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