516 Park Avenue

    On the first day of 1920, Frank Moore purchased the home at 516 Park Avenue from the Dambachs that built the home towards the end of 1917.

    Frank Moore was the head man at Mathews Conveyer from the time it arrived in Ellwood City in 1912 until he passed away in 1954, and he built Mathews Gravity Conveyer Company into one of Ellwood City’s leading industries. He served as President until 1948 and was still serving as chairman of the board at the time of his death at 77. When his widow passed away on Christmas Eve of 1965, her assets totaled $2,885,929 of which $1,540,111 went to the Ellwood City Hospital that her husband had served as the hospital board president since its incorporation meeting in 1915.

    Frank was one of thirty one recepients of Certificates of Merit for Scientific Contributions presented by the National Association of Manufactures. Besides the Ellwood City Hospital Board, he served as President of Community Service Chest, was a thirty-second degree mason, and a member of the Rotary Club. Mr. Moore also found time to serve as President of the Community Savings & Loan Company from it’s inception, served on the board of directors at First National Bank, succeed J.A. Evans as President of Chamber of Commerce, served on the committee to study the proposal for a municipal swimming pool in 1941,  and was appointed to the Post War Steering Committee after World War II.

    In 1965, after Frank’s widow passed, the house on Park Avenue was sold to the Superintendent of Schools Dr. John DeCaro.

     If you have any memories of the beautiful house on Park Avenue, or of the folks that have lived in it since it was built in 1917, please leave a comment below or email us your memories by CLICKING HERE.

    Information for this post was gathered from the book Ellwood City Houses and the People Who Lived in Them by Charles R. Moser available at the Ellwood City Historical Society.

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