One of the buildings on the 2000 Ohio City Home Tour was 2070 West 41st Street. In the brief accompanying description in the tour booklet for this house, it claims it is an "1880s home" and was "built in the 1890s". This is quite remarkable to discover a structure that doesn't have merely one age, but two!! Sadly, though, neither of these is correct! It, in fact, was built in 1903 [sorry -- no additional times]. Its original owner and occupant was an Albert Fischer. One of the other stories found in the tour booklet description is about a house-to-house intercom that had once existed between this house and a now-demolished neighboring house. There seems to be grounds to at least make this story believable. If true, this could have been used by Fischer to communicate with his neighbor and partner in a real-estate firm, Louis Litzler (who also happened to be married to one of Fischer's daughters), who resided in the now-demolished house. [Note: A new house has since been built on this neighboring lot.]
-- C. B.
