302 Rose Street

House. Contributing, ca. 1920, addition after 1954.
One-story frame front gable cottage with German siding. Addition to the north side after 1954. Attached awning supported by metal posts in front. Interior brick chimney, one-over-onewindows, multi-light-over-panel front door. James L. Pressley, employed at Wing Paper BoxCompany, lived here with wife Alice from 1937 to 1938. Melvin A. Pace, also employed at Wing Paper, lived here from 1939 to 1940; Vernon U. Sexton, a driver with City Ice & Storage Company, lived here with wife Faye from 1941 to 1942. The house was vacant for a time, and was occupied from 1945 to 1946 by Thomas R. Page, a mechanic at Boyd's Service Station, and wife Beatrice. It was not listed from 1948 to 1951, but beginning in 1952 Page T. Regional lived there. It appears from Sanborn maps that this was originally a garage, and was converted to a dwelling by 1926.
(Sanborn maps, city directories)