Description

This home used to be owed by John Solomon Smith, a Department Store Manager, and his wife Margaret Jane Andreu. Except for the cupola, the facade of this beautiful house has changed very little in the last 86 years. What appears to be a sandy beach at he bottom of the historic photo has been replaced by townhomes. Below is another view of this home.

10 Responses

1. Dan Perez says:

   April 29, 2011 at 6:54 pm

   Wow, what a spectacular house! Amazing that it’s still around. Fantastic effort, Bryan.
2. Bryan says:

   May 7, 2011 at 4:11 pm

   When I saw the historic photo, I doubted that the house still existed. But sure enough, its still here!
3. Mark & Carrie says:

   October 22, 2011 at 6:16 pm

   This is our friend Dr Daryl’s Home today. It a beautiful home.
4. Mark & Carrie says:

   October 22, 2011 at 6:20 pm

   The home was actually picked up and moved. It was on Bayshore Blvd. where the Monte Carlo Condominium is today.
5. Bryan says:

   November 13, 2011 at 12:35 pm

   That explains why the view of Bayshore in the other photograph appears slightly different. Thanks.
6. A. Michele Pearson says:

   January 8, 2012 at 9:13 pm

   I owned this home in 1990-1994-I had wood flooring upstairs and down refinished, It was a wonderful old home with the most wonderful woods they are like artwork…
7. Bryan says:

   January 12, 2012 at 9:45 pm

   Thanks for sharing. The inside of your home sounds as beautiful as the outside!
8. Rodger & Joan says:

   February 20, 2012 at 4:33 pm

   We owned the home about two years (1984 -1986) and did significant improvements. The house was not moved, only turned 90 degrees to face Stovall. The original owner owned all the land down to Bayshore and from Mason St. to Grovewood Ave.
   That owner’s widow, Annie Richardson did not want “to face that awful trolley that ran down Bayshore”, so the house was turned on its axis. She died and gave the house to her caretaker who had “wormed his way into her heart” per the abstract on our title. He promptly subdivided the land but was wiped out in the crash of 1926.
9. Mary B. Volland says:

   February 27, 2012 at 1:53 pm

   This house was owned by my great-grandparents, Jennie (Margaret Jane) and John Solomon Smith. My grandparents, Gurth and Leona Clarkson also lived there. I lived there as a young child from 1942 to 1949 when my parents bought a house after the war. My grandparents sold the house in the 1950′s. I have fond memories of that wonderful house as well as photos of me and my grandparents sitting on the front porch.
10. Bryan says:

    February 27, 2012 at 7:34 pm

    Thanks for sharing your stories about the home!

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