Historic Homes

We came across the Lambert Johnson home in a Find-It-Friday listing new residences around 1930. After identifying Lambert Johnson’s house as 2300 Lincoln Ave, this house has only intrigued us more.

Lambert D Johnson Sr was the son of E Mead Johnson, who founded Mead Johnson and located the company here in the 1910s. In 1928 Lambert bought the old Bernardin residence and land which was next to his father’s house. Johnson relocated the home nearby to Boeke Ave and soon built a large English Tudor mansion. The house designed by Chester Walcot (Chicago) was paneled throughout much of the interior and donned imported fixtures. It was built by J Bippus and Sons for a price tag of $200,000 and was completed in 1929.

The Johnsons lived here for several years, and though it was surely a social hub for Evansville’s elite the home largely remains a mystery.  The only interior picture we found was when the daughter got married in 1941.

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After Lambert’s parents passed away, the Johnsons moved into his father’s home in late 1940s to downsize (that home isn’t exactly small, so you can imagine the enormity of the Lambert residence). The mansion was deemed too big to maintain and sat vacant and for sale.  With no prospective buyers, it was razed in January 1955, and the area was turned into Johnson Place subdivision 1956 not long after Lambert’s death. One can only imagine the amount of craftsmanship and history that was demolished into a pile of rubble.

New residences in Johnson Place were limited to a smaller size so that the houses built wouldn’t fall into the same trap as Lambert’s did. Here is a view now of where the mansion once stood; the fenced community hiding a strange past.

When doing my research I came across this postcard and thought surely it was incorrectly labelled.  I knew of big houses on 1st St and even some on First Ave, but where were these grandiose houses along Fulton Ave?  Upon further searching, I identified these homes as those of three members of the Cook family, proprietors of the F W Cook Brewing Co.

• 602 N Fulton Ave – The first and largest of the three mansions built back in 1877 by F W Cook (father).  He was president and general manager of the F W Cook Brewing Co.  It was torn down in the winter of 1984-5 and is now the site of Inweld Corp
• 620 N Fulton Ave – Charles Cook, president of the Home Realty Co, built this brick Queen Anne in 1898.  It was torn down in 1998 after standing for a century and is now a side lot for the Henry Cook house
• 610 N Fulton Ave – Henry Cook (son) was the vice president of F W Cook Brewing Co and secretary and treasurer of the F W Cook Investment Co. This colonial revival house was built by Harris & Shopbell in 1899.  It is now the only home left standing, however the building is in serious disrepair.  It is on the Preservation Alliance of Evansville’s Top 10 Endangered List, and a recent, though incomplete, paint job hints of some hope for the home.

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The Cooks were a wealthy family, and these residences illustrate some of the grandeur that used to line Fulton Avenue.  Check out the slideshow along with the article that shows several photos of the homes through the years.  As a side note, in the postcard above you can see the tower of the Fulton Ave School in the distant left