716 Cherry St. and the Houses on Chestnut St.

The house at 716 Cherry St. in Erie was where Lewis S. Mosher and Marietta Walling Mosher raised their family.

Patricia McCay Biltucci Griswold, Natalie Mosher Griswold, and Patricia Natalie Griswold outside of 716 Cherry from when they were there in the summer of 2008. They were there about six days, long enough to go to the beach a few times, and to take little Natalie to the zoo and show her the penguins and the polar bear and everything. This is the left side of the house as you're facing it from Cherry St. The window up top was big Natalie's room; the dining room is down below it. The house looks pretty much as I remember it from when I was there in the 60's; Lew says the house is covered with siding (fake wood) now, and Aunt Lulu says it's bee repainted several times because of the severity of the weather there. Lew says the fence wasn't there then and Grandpa's rose garden is gone now, though a big garage out back is still there.

Next is Marietta Walling Mosher with her son Uncle Bob. This was probably taken in 1928 at the flat they lived in on the 900 block of Poplar St.; they moved out of there to 716 Cherry not long before Aunt Lulu was born. From an old picture album.

Another picture also from 1928 of Natalie at age 2 and Robert W. Mosher at age 4 on Poplar St. From an old picture album.

716 Cherry as it looks today. My grandfather Lewis S. Mosher bought it in 1928, a little before the stock market crash. It took so long for the economy to recover that when he sold it in 1965 he got the exact same price he had paid for it. To the left of the front door used to be a picture window, but it's been remodeled. Ditto the attic. From the Erie County records:

The two houses on Chestnut Street lived in by Judge Walling and family are the subject of this e-mail from Scott. One of these must be where the Wallings' stillborn daughter was buried in the backyard:

Subject: Chestnut Street Houses
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008
From: Scott Coyle
To: Fred Griswold 

http://www.eriecountygov.org/government/assessment/printable.aspx?parcelid=16030025010000

http://www.eriecountygov.org/government/assessment/printable.aspx?parcelid=16030025010100

http://www.eriecountygov.org/government/assessment/printable.aspx?parcelid=17040011022000

http://www.eriecountygov.org/government/assessment/printable.aspx?parcelid=17040011022100

The Wallings lived in two different houses on Chestnut Street.

The first link is how 402-404 West 10th & Chestnut looked in 2000.  That's West Tenth 
Street in the foreground.  It was a two family house in 2000.  The listing shows a build 
date of 1877.  There is a realtor's office there now - probably on the first floor with 
residental on the second floor.  The second link shows the rear of the house on the left 
in the picture.  That's Chestnut Street in the foreground.

The third link shows 407 Chestnut in 2000.  It's the house to the right in the picture.  
The fourth link is how 407 Chestnut looked in 2004 after renovations.  It looks similar 
to this picture now.  It's a two family house - likely rental.  The listing shows it was 
built in 1900.  I'm not sure how accurate the date is.  I've had my doubts about the build 
date on other listings that I've looked at.  The mixed use neighborhood is going thru an 
upgrade as Gannon University expands its campus ever closer.  But it's not an area where 
I would knock on the front door to ask about a grave in the back yard.  Google Maps has 
the best picture of the area that I could find.

Scott