Modern Residences, Wallace Woods	West on Wallace Avenue, Covington, Kentucky	Wallace Avenue, East from Scott, 1907

 

East on Wallace Avenue, Covington, Kentucky, 1912
to Mr. Charles A Leibengood, 32 Union Street, Dorrancester, Penna. Your card rec'd.
Many thanks  for same. Will have to ask you not to send any more. 
Your P.C. friend, Amelia Bristow

 

Wallace Avenue, West from Eastern Avenue	Wallace Place, 1909	Wallace Woods, 1930

 

East from Scott

 

Wallace Avenue Residences	Wallace Avenue, 1912	Wallace Ave, East from Scott

The real estate that comprises Wallace Woods went thru a number of hands before being acquired by retired steam boat captain Robert Wallace, Jr. in 1833, who would build a large log home on the property he called Longwood,, It was evidently a large home, since he lived there with his five children. The oldest daughter would marry John Shillito, who in 1939 would form the John Shillito Company, a dry goods business.
Hatfield Family		Shillito Cottage	The woods at Wallace Woods
Longwood	Robert Wallace	Charles Wallace	Stewart Home

Ex-mayor Thomas' Residence, 1910
Wallace Avenue

From the City of Covington's Strategic Plan from 1930, to illustrate the problem of non-uniform plantings. We couldn't find its location, but architect Warren LeMay came to our rescue: The picture “is of Wallace Avenue in Wallace Woods. It shows the wood clapboard-clad front gable and porch of 229 Wallace Avenue on the left, the brick front gable, brick porch, triple attic window, five-over-one second-story windows, and quoins of 227 Wallace Avenue very clearly, with only the porches of a few houses visible beyond, along with the two-story bay windows on the twin mirrored houses at 219 Wallace Avenue and 217 Wallace Avenue in the distance. All of these houses are still standing.”

At Scott and Wallace
Kentucky Post, August 19, 1903

 

Eastern Avenue at Durrett
The 1930 Covington City Plan cited this building
as a bad example: a business in a residential neighborhood.
A big thanks to Joyce Snow and her friends for identifying the location.

 

Martana [sic], c. 1910	Martanna Flats, 1909 Someone has written on the back of the Martanna card that “Mr. Martin Durrett and wife Anna own this property so this is how it got its name.”

 

Wallace Woods map
from Joseph F. Gastright's From Gentleman Farmers to City Folks

“There is a rumor afloat, that several of Covington's generous millionaires are about to buy 'Wallace Woods'
and donate it to the city of Covington for a park. It is sincerely to be wished that there is much
truth in the report, for there is no more convenient nor more desirable place for a park. 
The grand old mansion [Holmes Castle] would be a charming place for a 'Public library.'”
from the Cincinnati weekly Chic (V 1, #19),

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