Those Places Thursday: 1949 W. Lunt, Rogers Park, Chicago - John Pape's Home, ABT 1928-1937

This house, at 1949 W. Lunt in the Rogers Park area of Chicago, was the home of my paternal great-grandfather John Pape (1851-1945) from at least 1928 (but no earlier than 1925) to at least 1937 (but no later than 1939).  The 1236-square-foot house was built about 1904.  The photo below was taken in August 2017.

The 1910 Census shows a William Moore family renting the house.  By the 1920 Census, [Christian] Anthony D. Reimer was living in the house, along with his wife Hedwige A[gnes] and son (likely from a previous marriage) Oswald Christian Ursus Reimer.  Christian Anthony died in October 1922, and Hedwige Agnes continued to live in the house - it's her address when she was naturalized in June 1923.  Sometime between then and 1928, she and my widowed great-grandfather married.  She died in May 1937, and John (then age 85) moved sometime between then and 1940, when he appears on the Census living with his two youngest, single sons, Otto Richard "Dick" Pape and Walter Francis Pape, at 3648 N. Hoyne.

Above and below:  1949 W. Lunt, Chicago, September 2017.

Below:  Back side of 1949 W. Lunt, Rogers Park, Chicago, September 2017.

Interestingly, the house is right across the street from the small (less than one acre) Paschen Park, which opened on February 4,1929 - the day my father, Frederick Henry Pape, was born at the nearby St. Francis Hospital in south Evanston.

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