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CHERRY GROVE, OHIO CIRCA 1956 - THE KANIS FAMILY HOME (LEFT) AT 4048 MCLEAN DRIVE
As the post World War II baby boom spurred suburban development, the Kanis family decided to leave their home of 57 years in the city and move east to the suburbs. The house pictured above at 4048 McLean Drive was built in 1946 by the Harris Family. It was purchased by Earl and Mary Kanis in the fall of 1956 for $17,500.00 and became home to their family of what would eventually become six children. The McLean Drive development was the first subdivision built in Clermont County.
CHERRY GROVE, OHIO 2020 - THE PROPERTY AT 4048 MCLEAN DRIVE (RIGHT) AS IT APPEARS TODAY
In 1978, the Kanis's sold their property on McLean Drive for future commercial development for the amount of $65,000.00. With their family raised and now retired, Earl and Mary Kanis moved further east to Happy Hollow Road near Bethel, Ohio. In the late 1990's, the McLean Drive property sold again and the house was torn down. Today, only one of the four large maple trees remains standing in what was once the front yard. Traces of the driveway entrance can be see in the photo above.
CHERRY GROVE, OHIO 2020 - AERIAL VIEW OF 4048 MCLEAN DRIVE (LEFT) AS IT APPEARS TODAY
When the Kanis children moved from industrialized Norwood to suburban Cherry Grove in 1956, they thought they had arrived in paradise. Their new home was on a large one acre lot complete with a finished treehouse. It was surrounded by apple orchards and woods that they could play in all day long. The modern day aerial photo above shows how commercial development on the Ohio Pike corridor has now encroached upon the old McLean Drive property (left).