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Guidebook Chapin Park Local Historic District <br />Page 12 <br />RESIDENCES &BUILDINGS <br />803 Ashland Free Classic Queen Anne <br />Built by 1906, John J. Wollpert, the manager of a cigar shop in the <br />Oliver Hotel, and his wife, Ennis, lived here with their three chil- <br />dren: Helen, Jean and John. Charles A. Bacon, a research engineer <br />for Oliver Plow, is listed at the address in 1916. <br />807 Ashland American Foursquare <br />This house was most likely constructed in 1900 for Walter and Edith <br />Pershing. Walter was a manufacturer of “blank books.” He and his <br />wife raised two children: Marguerite and Dorothy. Walter died in <br />1923 and his heirs then sold the house. <br />808 Ashland - see 805 Leland <br />813 Ashland Queen Anne <br />Built circa 1896, the first owners of the home were Frank C. <br />Freyermuth and Elizabeth Bast Freyermuth. Frank was a cabinet- <br />maker, salesman for art companies and the proprietor of an art store <br />located at 114 N. Michigan. Architect Ennis R. and Elsie Austin <br />lived in the home in the 1920s. <br />814 Ashland Queen Anne <br />Ryell & Anne Shetterley Miller built this house as an investment <br />property by 1899. Ryell was an attorney and notary public who <br />invested in real estate and developed Shetterley Place from 1891 <br />onwards. Residents of this house include: Charles and Myrtle <br />Petty, Edward Morse, Isaac Miller, Louis and Catherine Teuscher <br />and John Hoke. <br />815 Ashland Gabled-Ell <br />This house was built circa 1894. Arthur B. Turner, a bookkeeper for <br />Singer’s, was an early resident; he lived here from 1896 until 1908. In <br />1928, he died as a result of injuries sustained in a car accident in <br />Memphis, Tennessee. John, a salesman for a wagon factory, and Eva <br />Madden rented the house from 1910 until 1912.