58 Linden Ave

Style: Queen Anne

Date Built: c. 1886

Description: Massive chimney with double chimney pot. Half circle window with keystone in front roof peak, peak-top ornament above. Stone lintels and window hoods; stone string course between second and third stories. Stick style porch, with characteristic vertical, horizontal, diagonal and curved wooden decoration including sunburst in porch pediment .

History:

Built by Charles U. and Maria Raymond. He was the secretary of the Dayton Manufacturing Company which made brass, bronze, nickel and iron railroad car hardware.

You will feel as if you stepped back in time as soon as you enter this house. The first feature you will see is the unusual cherry staircase with a newel post light and a built-in deacon’s bench. Look up and see painted ceiling medallions with period light fixtures. As you continue you notice the many stained glass windows, eight mantels and the kitchen tin ceiling. Period furnishings throughout the house add to the historical ambiance, especially in the dining room. The c 1860 table and the walnut sideboard and bookcase combined with the gaslight chandelier, dripping with prisms, give an appearance of Victorian splendor.

The house includes a third floor with a walk-up staircase, originally used as servant’s quarters.

In the late teens and early twenties, Homer S. Aimes, a vice-president for the Rike-Kumler Company lived here, and in the late twenties, Oscar Suhlma made this house his residence and physicina's office.