The Historic Old West End in Toledo, Ohio - Robinwood Avenue



The 1897 home at 2326 Robinwood was home to Benson Grant, according to the 1900 Polk City Directory. Mr. Grant was the proprietor of the Sanborn Company. The 1910 city directory listed Oren Wilcox, the president of the M. I. Wilcox Company located at 210-16 Water Street. Catherine Wilcox, a student, was listed as a boarder. The live-in domestic that year was Edith Swartz. Fred King was listed as the occupant of this house in 1921.

On August 8, 1891 W C Adams took out a permit for a $3,000 house to be constructed on Robinwood Avenue. The 1896 city directory listed William Adams as living at 2431 Robinwood which is an address that disappeared from later directories. The 1900, 1910, 1918 and 1921 city directories listed the occupant of 2445 Robinwood as William Adams who became the secretary and treasurer of the Fred Adams & Son Company located at 619-21 Monroe Street. Mr. Adams was seriously injured in July 1903 when a horse he was inspecting to purchase, kicked him resulting in serious abdominal injuries. In 1921 Willard Adams, a salesman with Fred Adams & Son which was a wholesale feed dealer, lived in the family home. Augusta Jerendt served the family in 1896, Clara Lipke in 1900, and Bertha Waigand was the Adams' live-in domestic in 1910.