2408 - 2412 HARRIS AVE...NORWOOD, OHIO

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For several years in the late 1800's, John Kanis II and Emma Kanis were living in Charleston, West Virginia where John was apprenticing the the grocery store business. Sometime in 1899, they returned to Cincinnati to set up shop with their young sons Clarence and Harvey, in tow. On November 8, 1899, John and Emma Kanis purchased three properties located on Harris Ave. in Norwood Ohio including a store building pictured on the left (2408), an adjacent lot (2410) and a house (2412). The total purchase price for all three parcels was $2,734.00. Note the John Kanis sign over the entry way and the Coney Island event poster to the left.

From 1899 to 1956, the house pictured on the right was home to Cincinnati Kanis family. It was adjacent to the John Kanis store building. Behind it stood the building that housed Kanis Auto Repair. Over the years, three generations lived there including; the John Kanis II family, the Clarence Kanis family and the Earl Kanis family. In 1956, with Norwood becoming more and more industrialized, Earl and Mary Frances Kanis sold the home and moved to Cherry Grove on the eastern edge of Anderson Township in the post World War II in growing suburbs of Cincinnati, Ohio.

Sometime after the Kanis family pulled up stakes in Norwood and moved to the eastern suburbs of Cincinnati, the State of Ohio announced the construction of State Route 562 also known as The Norwood Lateral. To make way, the old Kanis Store Building and the Kanis house were raised. The metal pole in the far right of the photo is all that remains today.The railroad tracks that ran behind the property are on now on a trestle and can be seen running diagonally on the left of the photo.