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Title Property Record of 40 Center Avenue
Catalog Number 2007.09.634
Scope & Content Property Record of 40 Center Avenue


- Lot 740 only -


1893 Chautauqua Assembly lease: Clara Potter (Mrs. Willis), Local/ 99 years from 14 May 1892/ Term rent $150.00
1898 Assigned: May 13, 1898 "...for the said Lot and the building thereon."
1898 Chautauqua Assembly lease: Miss Lydia A. Van Ness, Chautauqua, NY


- Lot 741 only -

1888 Chautauqua Assembly lease: Blin Rowland, Chautauqua, NY/ 99 years from 18 January 1887/ Term rent $150.00
Note: The August 1, 1887 C.A. Harold listed Blin Rowland as the builder of a cottage on this Lot in 1887
1890 Chautauqua Assembly lease: Thomas Newsham, Wattsburg, PA
1891 Chautauqua Assembly lease: Miss Lydia A. Van Ness, Westfield, NY


- Lots 740 & 741 -

1912 Chautauqua Institution lease: Floyd E. & Alida Hardenburg (H&W), Chautauqua
1925 Chautauqua Institution lease: Miss Gertrude Blayney, Westfield, NY (Dated 9/9/25)
1925 Chautauqua Institution lease: Miss Margaret B. Reese, Pittsburgh, PA/ (Dated 12/7/25)/ 602/190
*
1939 Chautauqua Institution deed: Miss Margaret B. Reese, Pittsburgh, PA/ In lieu of the 1925 lease to her/ 653/183
1940 Lot 741 was sold separately to Grace L. Cronkite, Anderson, SC
1940 Estate: Margaret B. Reese died intestate seized of Lot 740/ Grace M. Graver, Administratrix/ File #3941
1941 Harriett J. Woollard, Jamaida, Long Island, NY/ (Lot 740 only)/ 673/18
1944 Grace F. Peterson, Chautauqua, NY/ (Lor 740 only)/ 882/71
1950 Harvey L. & Rose M. Peterson (H&W), Jamestown, NY/ (Lot 740 only)/ 882/67
1955 Bessie Succop, Chautauqua, NY/ (Lot 740 only)/ 1021/380
???? Mertice M. James (female), Ashville, NY/ (Lot 740 only )/ ???? 1965 Alice Dorothy Brown, Ashville, NY/ (Lot 740 only)/ 1275/484
1973 First National Bank of Jamestown, Trustee for Alice Dorothy Brown, Chautauqua, NY/ 1464/135

* 1930 1990 Addenda: The Chautauquan Weekly of May 28, 1930 carried an article on page 5 about Physical Improvements that included "Miss Margaret Reese has built a new two story modern cottage at the upper end of Center Avenue (Lot 740) and has remodeled the small cottage next door (Lot 741)."

1990 Doris Dean Pringle, Ashville, NY/ 2218/578
1990 John P. & Jeannie M. Lantzy (H&W), North East, PA/ As tenants by the entirety/ 2238/404
2000 Jeffery & Nancy Leininger, Pittsburgh, PA/ 48-3-5
2014 September 19 Seller: Jeffrey & Nancy Leininger; Buyer: Tabitha & Tamara Latshaw, 201 Bunker Hill Dr., McMurray, P.A. 15317; 297.32-1-8
Dates of Creation 2007
Collection The Arthur Wade Property File Collection
Search Terms First National Bank of Jamestown, NY
Van Ness, Lydia A.
Rowland, Blin
Newsham, Thomas
Hardenburg, Alida
Hardenburg, Floyd E.
Blayney, Gertrude
Reese, Margaret B.
Wollard, Harriet J.
Peterson, Grace F.
Potter, Clara
Graver, Grace M.
Peterson, Grace F.
Peterson, Harvey L.
Peterson, Rose M.
Succop, Bessie
James, Mertice M.
Brown, Alice Dorothy
Pringle, Doris B.D.
Lantzy, John P.
Lantzy, Jeannie M.
Leininger, Jeffery
Leininger, Nancy
Cronkhite, Grace L.
Real Estate
cottages
Latshaw, Tabitha
Latshaw, Tamara
Center Street
Object Name Property reference file
Classification Real Estate
Lexicon category 10: Unclassifiable Artifacts
Lexicon sub-category Need to Classify
Catalog type Archive
Dates of Accumulation 2007