ASH STREET
- 4918 Ash Street - Werter G. (one of Norwood's 1st official
historians) & Elizabeth J. Betty
BEECH STREET
- 4917 Beech Street* - Ren (sporting news editor; one of the
1st official historians of Norwood) & Ida W. Mulford, Jr.
BURWOOD AVENUE
- 3835 Burwood Avenue - Louis H. Nolte (11th
Norwood Mayor)
CAMERON AVENUE
- 2202 Cameron Avenue - James L. Dalton (founder of Dalton Adding
Machine Company)
CLENEAY AVENUE
- 2241 Cleneay Avenue* - Theodore C. & Jennie M. Dorl (Dorl
Field is named after him)
CROWN AVENUE
- 2067 Crown Avenue - Sarah V. Bolles (woman who came up with the name
"Norwood") this was her home in early 1900s—one of several
over the years
DELAWARE AVENUE
- 2018 Delaware Avenue - George Kleb (18th Norwood Mayor)
FELDMAN AVENUE
- 2232 Feldman Avenue - Edwin Louis Jucker—childhood home (coach of
two national champion University of Cincinnati basketball teams in
1961 and 1962, and head coach of Cincinnati Royals professional
basketball team)
FLORAL AVENUE
- 3909 Floral Avenue - Carl H. Lindner, Sr. (founder of United Dairy
Farmers)
- 4155 Floral Avenue - Edward Tepe (Norwood Mayor for 5 terms from
1947-57)
- 4211 Floral Avenue - A. S. Marchette (said to have been
"instrumental in many of the industrial plants locating in
Norwood" while he worked as Freight Solicitor for the
Pennsylvania Railroad from 1899-1935; after his retirement at age 70,
he traveled to Hollywood, where he started a second career as an movie
actor—his biggest role was probably The Priest in a 1937 movie,
"The Prisoner of Zenda.")
- 4243 Floral Avenue - Robert Leslie (businessman known for developing
parts of South Norwood; this house, which may have been the first
built on Floral Avenue, was the first to require the services in 1888
of the newly created South Norwood Fire Brigade—the first fire
company in what was to become the Village of Norwood)
- 4319 Floral Avenue - Harry E. Engelhardt (10th Norwood Mayor)
JEFFERSON AVENUE
- 2256 Jefferson Avenue - William M. Fridman (9th Norwood Mayor)
- 2419 Jefferson Avenue - Harry H. Baker (12th Norwood Mayor)
Prior to becoming Mayor, he may have lived at 4343 Floral avenue.
- 2428 Jefferson Avenue - Charles Herbert Jones (7th Norwood Mayor)
HARPER AVENUE
- 2352 Harper Avenue - A. C. Strobel (early Norwood Board Of Education
member, executive of Rudolph Wurlitzer & Co., and brother-in-law
of Rudolph Wurlitzer and Henry Farny—who lived here for a few years)
HARRIS AVENUE
- 2266 Harris Avenue - John Weyer (1st Norwood Mayor)
- 2604 Harris avenue - John Uri Lloyd (famous chemist and author— it
is his historical sign you see when you enter Norwood)
HOPKINS AVENUE
- 1934 Hopkins Avenue - Aaron McNeil (2nd Norwood Mayor)
- 1921 Hopkins Avenue - T. V. Fitzpatrick (4th Norwood Mayor)
HUDSON AVENUE
- 1938 Hudson Avenue - Charles E. Prior (5th Norwood Mayor)
MADISON AVENUE
- 2210 Madison Avenue - Orville F. Dwyer (8th Norwood Mayor)
- 2257 Madison Avenue - George Puchta (owner of Queen City Supply
Company, one of the first Norwood water works trustees and Mayor of
Cincinnati - 1916-17)
MENTOR AVENUE
- 1911 Mentor Avenue - David Davis (3rd Norwood Mayor, and 1st Village
Solicitor)
MONTGOMERY ROAD
- 4301 Montgomery Road - George E. Mills (6th Norwood Mayor)
OAK STREET
- 4817 Oak Street - J. A. Knapp (illustrator of J. U. Lloyd's Etidorpha
and Betty & Mulford's Norwood, Her Homes and Her People)
PARK AVENUE
- 2265 Park Avenue - A. Y. Reid (one of the developers of Norwood Park
Subdivision)
QUATMAN AVENUE
- 2200 Quatman Avenue - Dorothy Kamenshek (female baseball player)
SECTION AVENUE
- 4741 Section Avenue - George Miller (baseball player; played for
Cincinnati Red Stockings 1877 and 1884)
SHERMAN AVENUE
- 1925 Sherman Avenue - George Chakauris (actor, West Side Story
and 12 O'Clock High.
SMITH ROAD
- 4117 Smith Road - John C. and Mary Dacy (Proprietors of the Norwood
Inn at n.w.c. Williams and Edwards Avenues, early Norwood amateur
baseball games and Xavier College–predecessor to Xavier
University– football games were played here)
SPENCER AVENUE
- 3918 (3935?) Spencer Avenue - Francis "Frank" Carter &
(Anna?) Mary F. Bancroft (business manager of Cincinnati Reds for 30
years and interim manager in summer of 1902; manager of the Providence
Grays, which won the unofficial "first World Series" in
1884; holds record for most teams managed - 7 )
STATION AVENUE
- 4620 Station Avenue - Louis T. Rebisso (famous artist; statue of
William Henry Harrison on Garfield Place is a sample of his work)
STEWART AVENUE
- 5040 Stewart Avenue - Joseph W. Shea, Jr. (19th Norwood Mayor)
WILLIAMS AVENUE
- 1906 Williams Avenue - William Campbell & Ellen Rachel (nee
Williams) Baker (Sharpsburg/Norwood pioneers)
- 2224 Williams Avenue - Allen C. Roudenbush (13th & 15th Norwood
Mayor)
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