Comments on: 301 Glen Avenue

By: Lois Liebendorfer

Lois Liebendorfer — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 01:29:21 +0000

When my husband and I were married in 1970 our first apartment was in the 2nd floor of this beautiful home. It was a lovely apartment and we enjoyed our 2 years there. We moved when we purchased our first home. The living space in our home wasn’t as spacious as the rooms in that apartment. One memory I have is of a mouse in our bread drawer! With the thick cement walls, no one could imagine how that mouse got to the second floor.

By: Frank Geniviva

Frank Geniviva — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:59:23 +0000

Jerry
You might be right, 67 is more like it. I just remember they bought it after i got out of college. I can still here my dad saying, “after all that money for your education, it time I spend spend some money on your mom”

What is very interesting, there was a bidding process on the Offutt house [301 glen] and my dad saying if he didn’t get it, he would buy the Britton home.
Small World we live in…..

fgviva

By: Jerry Thompson

Jerry Thompson — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:15:25 +0000

Frank,
Are you sure it was 1966 when your dad purchased the house? In 1967, my parents moved to Ellwood from Philadelphia and I thought they looked at this house. I remember touring the house and yard with them and was amazed at the size of the house and the beauty of the grounds/pond. I also remember that the house was sold to your family. I had forgotten about the carriage house.
The house was much too large for my parents and my one brother,(three of us stayed in the Philadelphia area).
My parents bought the Jake Britton house at 225 Glen Avenue.
Thanks for the memories.
Jer

By: Frank Geniviva

Frank Geniviva — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 03:59:40 +0000

The front of the house would be 301 3rd St., but my guess is that 301 Glen Ave. was used as mail delivery. The original metal mail box is still used, with “301″ marked into it by John Offutt.
The only changes made to the house, was the remodelling of the kitchen. The kitchen when my parents bought the home was designed as a servers kitchen and needed to be replaced. Yes, the chimes are still there, along with the door chime that let the servants know what door [front or back].
My dad [Joseph Geniviva] passed away in 1987, and after my mom [Jean Geniviva] passed on in 2007, the home was transferred to me. My home is in Wayne township and I really wanted to move back to the “homestead” but when my youngest daughter got married in 2007, I had them move in the house at 301 Glen Ave.
The second floor of the home, 305 Glen Ave, has been a rental since the 1940s, and there are many unique things found there. The third floor has 4 full size bedrooms, one containing a wall that is a blackboard.
The carriage house [307 Glen Ave] was the quarters for the servants. I lived there for 14 years.
Still present in the home, are two work tables that were used by John Offutt along with the blue prints of the original house, and a number of other houses in Ellwood City that John Offutt made. The house is built on 4-5 city lots and is completely surrounded by street or ally. I still have an old photo [8x10] of John in his later years sitting beside the pond in the yard.
When my dad purchased the property in 1966, it sold for $40,000.00 and at the time it was the highest amount paid for a resold home in EC.
I have a lot more info and photos, just contact me.

Thank you
Frank Geniviva

By: Joanne Offutt Wiedman

Joanne Offutt Wiedman — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:57:40 +0000

John Offutt mentioned in this article was my grandfather. My father grew up in this house! He was John W. Offutt Jr. I grew up in California so only visited the house a few times, but I loved it.