The residential listings for Holmes Ave on this site are from the research that Claire Martin, Susan Meister, Barbara Erdmann, Kevin Johnson and Kris Smith, members of the Holmes Ave. Historical Society, first prepared in 1994. It was updated in 2025 with the help of David Baker. The information is from city directories and parcel searches. The dates may not be exact. House numbers for most of Hawthorne Place were altered in 1926 creating some confusion of ownership. Different spellings are frequently encountered. The names cited may be for an owner or renter. There is no attempt to identify all in a household. Where there are texts, “facts” are stubborn things. It can be the beginning for others to do the research.
Mary Schafer of 1520 Holmes is holding a photograph of her 14 children. Among them are four sets of twins. This portrait was taken by Hawthorne’s own Rich Saal for the State Journal Register in 1989.