Harry C Eldridge - 123 Miami

This house was built in 1923 for Harry C. Eldridge. The Italianate home now located at 114-116 Elm Street was originally at this site since the 1880s, but was moved to make space for this home. Eldridge’s house was built in a Colonial Revival style, one of the several revival styles especially popular after World War I. The house has a gable roof and a four bay porch supported by Tuscan order columns. Harry C. Eldridge was the co-founder (with Seymour S. Tibbals, who built the house at 290 Oxford Road) of Franklin’s Eldridge Entertainment House, which published plays for schools and churches. In an earlier census, Harry Eldridge listed his occupation as music teacher. He was the brother of Edwin S. Eldridge who built the house at 305 Park Avenue. In 1945 the house was sold to Paul and Martha Logan of Franklin’s Logan-Long roofing company.