405 Brown Street

Lot and Block » Lots 3 & p.2&4;, Block 26
Name » Balla Thur
Built » 1914
Built by » Samuel Walker
Style » Colonial Revival
Owner(s) » Henry L & Barbara A Strang, 1891 – original owners (Lots 2 & 3: #227,228) Samuel H Walker, 1910 – (Lots 2 & 3, #748) Robert J Dutton, 1911 (#780) Samuel H Walker, 1912 (Lot 3, #815) James Paul Lynch, 1920 (Lots 1-4, #1039) sold 1941 By 1957, John H. & Ethel V. Grimes, Jr. (sold 1963) Charles T. & J. M. Mahaffey (liber 3099 folio 294), by 1966 Charles J. & A. T. Mahaffey, non-sale transfer 11 June 1970 (liber 3968 folio 775); also correction on 14 July 1970 (liber 3979 folio 792)
Remarks » Assessment records indicate a house on lot in 1895. Appears in assessment records as Lot 3 & part of lots 2 & 4. Named by Alice Mahaffey after a family farm c. 1985.
Sources » Grimes to Mayor Pughe, 14 June 1963, Town Archives; Town Directories; Register of Stock Certificates; Assessment records; MCathran correspopndence 1941; 1946 tax list; Town Records; Rosalie Shantz ;Alice Mahaffey.