Vaughn's Houses
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Akron, Ohio |
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1975 Germaine Street, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio |
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3626 E. Layton Avenue, Cudahy, WI
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3526-26A E. Cudahy Avenue, Cudahy, WI |
HIGH SCHOOL YEARS AS AN UNDER CLASSMAN
By Pat and Dick Longtin
Pictured above are the
two homes where the Monroe family lived in Cudahy, Wisconsin. The first home
(at
the top of the page) was built in 1909. The second home was a two-family
house built in 1917. At the time, Vaughn was a 13-year old teenager and
played trumpet in the high school band. These houses were less than one
mile apart. The family later moved to Jeannette, Pennsylvania where Vaughn graduated from high school and continued on to
college and his musical career.
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101 N 2nd Street, Jeannette, PA |
HIGH SCHOOL YEARS AS AN UPPER CLASSMAN
By Claire Schwartz
This is the address given for Ira and Mabel Monroe in
1928-1929. The house appears to have been located in the vacant lot
between the two homes pictured. These homes are located on a hill east
of downtown Jeannette, which is located in the valley behind the homes
in this photo. See High School Days - Jeannette,
PA for
additional information.
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3 Pine Road, Wayland MA |
A COTTAGE
FOR TWO
By Pat and Dick Longtin
In Wayland, Massachusetts in the years 1940-41 Vaughn Monroe and
his beautiful wife, Marian, moved into their first cozy 504
square-foot cottage at 3 Pine Road, on an 84 acre pond. The pond was
called Dudley Pond. This home was a few miles from Seiler's Ten Acres
which was the base for his first performance as the Vaughn Monroe Band
with him singing and leading. The rest is history, great success and
much bigger homes. But none greater than: A Cottage for Two.
We would like to sincerely thank Savitri A. Ramgoolam from the Town
of Wayland, Board of Assessors and Ted Vassallo who is the present
owner and who has updated the home in recent years, for all their
assistance and help.
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1185 Park Avenue, New York, NY |
PENTHOUSE ON THE PARK
By Carter B. Horsley
One of the very few grand courtyard
apartment buildings left in Manhattan and the only one still standing on
Park Avenue, this very large and very handsome building has 185
cooperative apartments.
Designed
by Schwartz & Gross, it was developed by the Bricken Construction
Company in 1929.
The building has a Gothic-inspired
triple-arch entrance and driveway on the avenue and its very large
courtyard leads to six elevator lobbies, each of which service only two
apartments a floor. A nice feature of the landscaped courtyard is that
the separate entrances have their own canopies and that the facades
facing the courtyard were nicely ornamented and finished.
The building has a two-story limestone
base with a dark masonry façade above with terra-cotta trim near the
corners. Like many buildings of its era, its windows had awnings that
have long since given way to air-conditioners.
The apartments are spacious and there are some duplex penthouses.
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35 Pickwick Road, Newton, MA
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THE HOMESTEAD
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41 High Point Drive, Stuart, FL
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ST. LUCIE LIVING
By Claire Schwartz
This is
the house that Vaughn designed himself to be his "retirement" home. The
house is white, with clean lines and a classic look after the Greek
Revival style of architecture. A handsome portico with a colonnade of
white Ionian pillars marks the entrance. The front door has a patterned
set of handles fashioned after musical notes. The long shuttered widows
and white tile roof set off the structure elegantly. The house is located
on the east bank of the St. Lucie River and has a dock in the
back where Vaughn likely kept his boat. The style and good taste are so
evident in the design and the man who designed it. According to his wife
Marian, "He loved every nook and cranny of it."
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