302 Lake - Howard B Anderson Home

Howard B. Anderson purchased the lot in 1888 and by 1890, built this eclectic Victorian. Its many architectural features include a gabled pavilion with bracing at its peak, and supported at its eastern base by large scrolled brackets. A large stained glass transom window is also on the Elm Street façade. The east gable also contains decorative bracing. The north side of the house has a jerkin head roof. A small and delicate porch was originally inset within the northeast angle of the house, but by 1916, this had been replaced by a larger, more substantial one having Tuscan order columns present today. Howard B. Anderson, the third son of L. G. Anderson, was probably born across Lake Avenue, at 49 Miami Avenue, and followed in his father’s footsteps as a Warren County commissioner. Howard spent his life in the family grain and lumber business, in Franklin. The 1900 and 1910 censuses show Howard, his very pretty wife Hattie, and their four children at this address. After Howard’s death, his wife, and later their daughters, Barbara Miller and Gertrude Anderson lived here until the 1960s.