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Property Record of 10 Whitfield Avenue |
Catalog Number |
2007.09.539 |
Scope & Content |
Property Record of 10 Whitfield Avenue History of thirteen Chautauqua Lots from 1872: Lots #258 - 265 inc. and Lots #58 - 62 inc. Note: Lots #58 & 59 filed in the 4 Whitfield Avenue and Lots #60 - 62 filed in the 15 N. Lake Drive folder, and also Lot #265 filed as 5 Thompson Avenue The block of seven Lots from #258 - 264 became the site of the Muncie Cottages later named the North Shore Inn/ The century old frame cottages were razed in 1970 50 3 9 - N 1/2 Lot 258 - Hunt Ave. 1873 Chautauqua Lake Camp Meeting Association lease: John O'Neal, Oil City, PA/ for 99 years from 15 July 1872/ Term rent $25.00 1874 Chautauqua Lake Camp Meeting Association lease: Rev. F.A. Archibald, Russelburg, PA 1874 Chautauqua Lake Camp Meeting Association lease: Rev. J.T. Edwards, Randolph, NY 1875 Assigned: Loderick H. Carter 1891 Assigned: Carrie Lothridge, Jersey City, NJ 1894 Estate: Carrie Lothridge died intestate/ A.L. Lothridge, Administrator 1895 Lease assigned: Frances N. Gates, Buffalo, NY - S 1/2 Lot 258 - Whitfield Ave. 1873 Chautauqua Lake Camp Meeting Association lease: Mrs. E.I. Simons, Jamestown, NY/ 99 years from 15 July 1873/ Term rent $25.00 1874 Chautauqua Lake Camp Meeting Association lease: Mr. S.H. Evans, Tidiout, PA/ ($200.00 paid for 1/2 Lot & cottage) 1890 Assigned: J.F. Hunt, Chautauqua/ ($475.00 paid for 1/2 Lot & cottage) - All Lot 258 and Southerly 3' of Lot 259 - Kitchen 1900 Chautauqua Assembly lease: Frances N. Gates, Buffalo, NY/ Term rent $550.00 1928 Estate: Frances Nelson Gates died testate/ Arthur T. Nelson, Executor/ This property known as the "Kitchen" was willed to Fred J. Nelson/ Wills 13/602 1928 Chautauqua Institution lease: Fred J. Nelson, Chautauqua, NY 1939 Chautauqua Institution deed: Fred J. & Grace E. Nelson (H&W)/ With right of survival/ In lieu of 1928 lease/ 629/281 50 3 1 - Lot 259 - Robinson Cottage 1873 Chautauqua Lake Camp Meeting Association lease: E.L. Pelton, Erie, PA/ 99 years from 19 July 1872/ Term rent $25.00 1875 Assigned: Elisha Robinson/ ($650.00 paid"...with cottage thereon.") 1903 Assigned: Mrs. Frances N. Gates/ Consideration $2500.00 1928 Estate: Frances Nelson Gates died testate/ Arthur T. Nelson, Executor/ This property known as the "Robinson Cottage" was willed to Fred J. Nelson/ 13/602 1928 Chautauqua Institution lease: Fred J. Nelson, Chautauqua, NY 1939 Chautauqua Institution deed: Fred J. & Grace E. Nelson (H&W)/ With survival rights/ In lieu of 1928 lease? 629/281 (See continuation after Lot 262) 50 3 2 - Lot 260 - 10 Whitfield Avenue 1873 Chautauqua Lake Camp Meeting Association lease: William S. Ecker/ 99 years from 1 July 1973/ Term rent $50.00 1874 Assigned: George W. Staples, Kingsville, OH 1874 Assigned: A.C. Tibbitts, Erie, PA 1875 Assigned: Rev. William A. Clark, Mentor, OH 1879 Assigned: Rev. Silas M. Clark, Perrysburgh, NY 1882 Chautauqua Lake Sunday School Assembly lease: Martha J. Neely, Muncie, IN - Lot 261 - 21 North Lake Drive 1873 Chautauqua Lake Camp Meeting Association lease: Amos K. Warren, Mayville, NY/ 99 years from 15 July 1873/ Term rent $100.00 1877 Assigned: Edwin Kirkland and Horace Young 1882 Assigned: Martha J. Neely (aka M.Jennie Neely), Muncie, IN - Lots 260 & 261 - Muncie Cottage 1883 Chautauqua Lake Sunday School Assembly lease: Martha J. Neely, Muncie, IN 1888 Chautauqua Assembly lease: Miss Frances E. Nelson, Buffalo, NY/ (Known later as Mrs. Frances Nelson Gates) 1928 Estate: Frances Nelson Gates died testate/ Arthur T. Nelson, Executor/ This two Lot property was willed to Fred J. Nelson/ Wills 13/602 1928 Chautauqua Institution lease: Fred J. Nelson, Chautauqua, NY 1939 Chautauqua Institution deed: Fred J. & Grace E. Nelson (H&W)/ With right of survival/ 629/281 (See continuation after Lot 262) 50 3 8 - Lot 262 - 8 Whitfield Avenue Annex #2 1873 Chautauqua Lake Camp Meeting Association lease: Sanford W. Beaujean, Fair Point, NY/ 99 years from 19 August 1872/ Term rent $50.00 1875 Assigned: M.A. Martin, Jamestown, NY 1878 Assigned: Mary A. Palmeter 1880 Assigned: Frank W. Palmeter 1883 Assigned: Marthe Pond, Jamestown, NY 1894 Assigned: J. Benson Countryman, Akron, NY/ Consideration $1170.00 1896 Assigned: Mrs. Fannie Warren, Akron, NY 1899 Assigned: Mrs. Frances N. Gates, Buffalo, NY 1899 Chautauqua Assembly lease: James M. Gates, Buffalo, NY 1907 Chautauqua Institution lease: Mrs. Frances Nelson Gates 1928 Estate: Frances Nelson Gates died testate/ Arthur T. Nelson, Ext., Lebanon, MO 1928 Chautauqua Institution lease: Fred J. Nelson/ Per Gates will/ Wills 13/602 1939 Chautauqua Institution deed: Fred J. Nelson/ In lieu of lease/ 653/126 1939 Fred J. Nelson & Grace E. Nelson (H&W)/ With right of survival/ 629/281 CONTINUATION - Lots 258, 259, 260, 261 & 262 - 1943 Fred J. Nelson died December 22, 1943/ Surviving spouse Grace sold the Muncie 1944 VanDyke & Mildred Underwood (H&W), Jamestown, NY/ 691/458 1970 Bell Tower, Inc. (Robert S. Barbar and John L. Sellstrom)/ 1374/110 and 1374/116 1971 Robert S. Bargar, Jamestown, NY/ 1411/584 50 3 3 - Lot 263 - Annex #1 7 Thompson Avenue at corner of North Lake Drive 1871 Chautauqua Lake Camp Meeting Association lease: James J. Atherly, Oliver Clock, Fillmore Clock and Eliza Pickard, all local/ 15 years from 15 july 1871/ Term rent $50.00 1873 Chautauqua Lake Camp Meeting Association lease: William P. Whiteside, Mayville, NY/ 99 years from 1 July 1873/ Term rent $100.00 1877 Chautauqua Lake Sunday School Assembly lease: J.L. Brookins, North East, PA 1883 Chautauqua Assembly lease: Charles S. Farrar, Akron, OH 1891 Chautauqua Assembly lease: James M. Gates, Bufalo, NY/ "...agrees to insure cottage...$1000." 1907 Chautauqua Institution: Mrs. Frances N. Gates 1928 Estate: Frances Nelson Gates died testate/ Arthur T. Nelson, Executor/ This cottage known as "Annex #1" was willed to Arthur T. Nelson/ Wills 13/602 1928 Chautauqua Institution lease: Arthur T. Nelson, Lebanon, MO 1936 Estate: Arthur T. Nelson died testate October 28, 1936/ Son, Frank R. Nelson, Executor/ Cottage willed to wife, Elizabeth I. Nelson 1937 Chautauqua Institution lease: Elizabeth Irene Nelson, Lebanon, MO 1944 Chautauqua Institution lease: VanDyke & Mildred T. Underwood (H&W), Jamestown, NY 1970 Chautauqua Institution deed: VanDyke & Mildred T. Underwood (H&W), Chautauqua, NY/ In lieu of lease? 1374/120 1970 Bell Tower, Inc. (Bargar & Sellstrom)/ 1374/110 & 1374/116 1971 John L. Sellstrom, Jamestown, NY/ 1411/588 1986 Robert S. Bargar, Jamestown, NY/ 2101/335 2014 J.Jason Phillips & Sheila Schroeder, San Francisco, CA 50 3 7 - Lot 264 - 6 Whitfield Av Housing for Help Northrop Cottage 1873 Chautauqua Lake Camp Meeting Association lease: Albert H. Gogard, Mayville, NY/ 99 years from 19 August 1872/ Term rent $50.00 1881 Chautauqua Lake Sunday School Assembly lease: Horace Young, Dewittville, NY 1889 Chautauqua Assembly lease: Mrs. Alice Young, Dewittville, NY 1891 Chautauqua Assembly lease: Mrs. Clara R. Kochersperger, Jamestown, NY 1895 Chautauqua Assembly lease: Mrs. Eva A. Titus, Olean, NY 1902 Chautauqua Insitution lease: Mrs. Frances N. Gates, Chautauqua, NY 1928 Estate: Frances Nelson Gates died testate/ Arthur T. Nelson, Extr. Cottage willed to Fred J. Nelson/ Wills 13/602 1928 Chautauqua Institution lease: Fred J. Nelson, Chautauqua, NY 1939 Chautauqua Institution deed: Fred J. Nelson, Chautauqua, NY/ In lieu of lease/ 653/126 1939 Fred J. & Grace E. Nelson (H&W)/ With right of survival/ 629/281 1944 VanDyke & Mildred T. Underwood (H&W), Jamestown, NY/ 691/458 1970 Bell Tower, Inc./ 1374/116 and 1374/110 1971 John L. Sellstrom, Jamestown, NY/ 1411/588 1986 Robert S. Bargar, Northerly 20' of #264/ (Sellstrom retained Southerly 10')/ 2101/335 2014 J. Jason Phillips & Sheila Schroeder SUMMARY: Starting in 1889 Miss Frances E. Nelson (known later as Mrs. Frances N. Gates) of Buffalo, NY, leased several contiguous Lots and added others so that by 1907 she controlled Lots 258 through 264/ She called the cluster the Muncie Cottages and operated them for many summer Chautauqua Seasons until her death in 1928/ Mrs. Gates had acquired Lot 265 in 1915 and held all eight when she died/ Mrs. Gates willed to her brother, Fred J. Nelson "who has lived with me and cared for me the last years of my life" six of the eight cottages/ She left Annex #1 to her brother, Arthur T. Nelson and left the Dixie to her step-daughter, Mrs. Grace Nelson Lothridge of Tampa, FL/ Mrs. Lothridge assigned her leasehold to Fred J. Nelson giving him seven Fred J. Nelson and his wife, Grace E. Nelson continued the Muncie boarding house operation until 1943/ Mr. Nelson died December 22, 1943 and his surviving wife, Grace E. Nelson sold the property to VanDyke and Mildred T. Underwood of Jamestown, NY in 1944/ After remodeling they renamed it the North Shore Inn and were the Innkeepers until they sold the property in 1970 The century old frame cottages were razed. |
Dates of Creation |
2007 |
Collection |
The Arthur Wade Property File Collection |
Search Terms |
Ecker, William S. Tibbitts, A.C. Clark, Silas M. Clark, William A. Warren, Amos K. Young, Horace Gates, Frances N Nelson, Arthur T. Nelson, Fred J. Nelson, Grace E. Beaujean, Sanford W. Palmeter, Mary A. Countryman, J. Benson Evans, S.H. Hunt, J.F. Farrar, Charles S. O'Neal, John Archibald, F.A. Edwards, James T. Carter, Loderick H. Lothridge, Carrie Lothridge, A.L. Simons, Mrs. E.I. Pelton, E.L. Robinson, Elisha Ecker, William S. Staples, George W. Neely, Martha J. Kirkland, Edwin Neely, M. Jennie Nelson, Frances E. Martin, M.A. Palmeter, Frank W. Pond, Martha Warren, Fannie Gates, James M. Underwood, VanDyke Underwood, Mildred Towne Bargar, Robert S. Sellstrom, John L. Bell Tower, Inc. Real Estate Cottages Phillips, J. Jason Schroeder, Sheila |
Object Name |
Property reference file |
Classification |
Real Estate |
Lexicon category |
10: Unclassifiable Artifacts |
Lexicon sub-category |
Need to Classify |
Catalog type |
Archive |
Dates of Accumulation |
2007 |
Cottage Nickname |
Muncie Annex #2; North Shore Inn |