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542 Oak Street

Mark Bowen House

Contributing, ca. 1925.
One-story bungalow with a front gable roof and knee braces. German siding. Wraparound porch with cross gable roof, battered posts on painted brick piers, 2x2 balustrade. Exterior end chimney at porch on north side. Three-vertical-over-one windows; six-light front door. Corner lot. This was originally Lot 30 of the C. F. Bland subdivision, purchased by K. G. Morris from Bland (Morris also bought lots 31-33, now part of 538 Oak Street). Mark and Kate Bowen lived here from 1937 to 1938. Mrs. Annie Harding, widow of Thomas Harding, lived here from 1939 to 1949. Robert W. and Floyd C. Maney lived here beginning in 1950. Maney was an accountant with Ecusta Paper.
(Sanborn maps, city directories, plats, deeds)

Historic District
West Side