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Anna bought this gray one-story house
on May 25, 1888 and she and Chris sold it 15 August 1889. It adjoins the Anton Cammen property on the north,
Lots 6 & 8 of Pettygrove's First Addition, Port Townsend, WA.
I presume the shed part on the right is a later addition to the original house. The chimney
looks modern, too.
The present address is 835 J Street, Port Townsend, WA. |
This gray two story house is Rose NW corner 3rd (H St today used
to be 3rd).
This is the location where Chris and Anna lived according to R. L. Polk &
Co.'s City 1890 Port Townsend City Directory.
The present address today is 907 Rose St., and this house adjoins Anton's property on the east.
This house looks more modern to me than the other two. They probably rented, as
Dan Most and Tom Noe pointed out they couldn't find any records of Chris owning
property. |
This red house is the one Anton and Edwardina bought
May 24, 1888, and which Edwardina sold December 20, 1901.
This is Lots 5 & 7 in Block 11 of Pettygrove's First Addition, Port Townsend, WA. The older part of the house
is the back part and is dated by the chimney design (best seen from side
view). The front half is newer, a house which was moved to the site and
connected to the older house with a roof. The two houses are about 12 feet
apart.
Chris and Anna were living here with her mother, Edwardina, in 1900 when the federal census was taken.
The present address is 934 H Street.
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We actually talked to the present owner of
Anton's house and he told us all about the well outside the kitchen window (which apparently was dry and then
subsequently used as a garbage dump), and the foundation of the old barn, gone now, and so on. He was the one who pointed out the difference in the
chimneys and explained how two houses had been joined together.
The person living in Chris' 1890 house didn't know anything about the history of that
house and had not lived there very long.
No one was home at Chris and Anna's first home. |