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The Mayors’ House By Rex Bevis The year 2020 opens with a new Mayor for the Village, Mr. Bill Brown, who has moved up from his Village Council position to take the reins as Mayor. A heart-felt congratulations and thank you from the staff of the Mariemont Town Crier for Bill’s willingness to take on the responsibilities of being Mayor.
and his wife, Marie, occupied the house for many years. After Mr. Jordan’s passing on March 27, 1959 while serving as Mayor, his wife remained in the house until she sold it in 1963 to Mr. and Mrs. Glenn (and Janet) Dammert. Growing up in the house with her parents Glenn and Janet was Debbie Dammert Brown, wife of our new Mayor
a wedding ceremony conducted by then Mayor Dick Adams. Both Bill (Class of ’69) and Debbie (Class of ’70) Brown are Mariemont High School graduates, and Bill is the first MHS graduate to become Mayor of Mariemont! Although not growing up or living in the house, frequent visitors are Bill and Debbie’s son Ted (MHS Class of ’03) and his wife Natalie, who are both attorneys living in Columbus, and their young children Owen and Colin. There is a lot of 4030 Lytle Woods Place history for the Mayor’s son and grandchildren to absorb! Once again, congratulations Bill! We wish you the best of success as the 11th Mayor of Mariemont.
Mayors of Mariemont E. Boyd Jordan June, 1941 – Mar., 1959
Bill and wife Debbie, pictured above, reside in the beautiful and historic white farmhouse at 4030 Lytle Woods Place, that was also the home of Mariemont’s first Mayor, E. Boyd Jordan, who became Mayor in 1941. The intersection of Mariemont’s first Mayor and her eleventh Mayor is significant enough to warrant a bit of history on the “Mayors’ House.” The house was built in 1906, and there were no other residences within the vicinity at the time of construction. E. Boyd Jordan
John J. Farley
April, 1959 – 1959
Russell S. Geil
1960 – 1961
Bill. Following Mr. Dammert’s death in 2011, Bill and Debbie Brown, who were living on Miami Bluff Drive, seized the opportunity to return to Debbie’s original home and acquired the house from Mom Janet in 2013.
Charles Straley
1962 – Sept., 1977
Arthur J. Davies
Sept., 1977 – 1979
In addition to growing up in the 4030 Lytle Woods Place farmhouse, Debbie told me that she and Bill held their wedding reception in the house in 1973. Also, in the mid 1980s, Debbie’s sister Holly was married in the living room of the house in
Clarence M. Erickson
1980 – 1983
Richard E. Adams
1984 – 1991
Donald L. Shanks
1992 – 1995
C. Michael Lemon
1996 – 2000
Daniel J. Policastro
2001 – 2019
William Brown
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