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Addresses of "noteworthy" people
of Norwood, Ohio.

Note: The following people may have lived at more than one address in Norwood.
* The original buildings may have been removed from some of these addresses.
The addresses are in alphabetical order by street.


    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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