Once owned by E.H. Thurston, this house now sits vacant, awaiting rehabilitation among other concrete block houses that were examined yesterday.
It has a wonderful west facing solarium, and a green glazed terracotta roof.
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Once owned by E.H. Thurston, this house now sits vacant, awaiting rehabilitation among other concrete block houses that were examined yesterday.
It has a wonderful west facing solarium, and a green glazed terracotta roof.
The Thurston house is at the corner of Oakley Place and Plymouth Avenue.
A kinda eclectic block house is at the corner of Oakley and Julian! Wow!
Thanks, Chris – I never knew these houses existed.
My house in Kirkwood uses the same type of “textured” (word ?) blocks on its above ground block foundation; it was built in 1940
Who was E.H. Thurston? I can’t find any information about him online.
Kyle, I have to admit I don’t know, either. I was only able to glean his name from property records, and passed his name along to my readers.
He had something to do with local big business, as his name – and his wife’s – are all over teens-’20’s-’30’s issues of the P-D. That’s all I could find ether.