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This house has now been identified! It is at 916 Oakmont Avenue (previously known as East Railroad Ave) in Oakmont, PA, and was the home of John Porter Hunter and his wife Mary Hannah Agnew Hunter. They sold it to the Baileys in 1902. It is shown as lots 4,5,6, and 7 of the J.W. Dalzell plan in the 1886 - Atlas of the Vicinity of the Cities Pittsburgh and Allegheny: Plate 11 at http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/maps/showmap.pl?client=maps&image=86v01p11. See also a Hulton subdivision plan from 1884. It is also shown as the Bailey property in the 1903 Eastern Vicinity of Pittsburgh map at http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/maps/showmap.pl?client=maps&image=03vevp32. The Allegheny County assessment photo of the 916 Oakmont Ave house: The white house in this photo from my grandmother was the Elizabeth Bradley Home for Children at 214 Hulton Road (earlier designation H Street) in Oakmont, torn down in the '70s for the new Riverview High School. It was apparently originally John Agnew's home. He died in 1905, the year the Bradley Home was established. However, the house was purchased by the Bradley Home from the Dalzell family. This house is pictured in Oakmont (Images of America) by Vince Gagetta, Paul A. Calabrese, Cheryl Zentgraf, Gary Rogers, Arcadia Publishing (SC) October, 2003, and identified as the home of the owner of the Agnew Glass Company: The photo below was given to me at the Oakmont Library. I was told that
it shows the former Agnew home when it was the paint
laboratory for
the Thompson Paint Co. in the 1940s. The original house is on the left, with a later
addition built by Thompson. (source: Oakmont
Carnegie Library)
Addresses I have for our family in Pittsburgh include:
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Buyer, Stier, and Related Families Research is continuing and some information in this site is unproven. This site last updated on 03/12/2008 02:39 AM -0000 by Susan Patterson Buyer. I have added spaces to my email address to reduce spam. Please remove the spaces and substitute "@" for "at" when you email me. susanbuyer at gmail.com |