Purchase Price $210,000
4 bed · 2.5 bath · 2,720 sqft
Classic Spanish elegance in a great neighborhood! This wonderful home features gorgeous woodwork and arched doorways, formal living and dining rooms, main floor office. Upstairs are four bedrooms, a bath, and a charming sleeping porch. The electrical, plumbing, and HVAC have all been updated. Wow! All this and a tile roof!
Contact: Mike Jackson at Coldwell Banker
Call: 816-262-2555
House History & Gallery
The Mediterranean design of the Tedlock House at 1710 Ashland makes it stand out among the historic building stock in St. Joseph. The design was so unusual that in 1928 the St. Joseph Gazette ran a lovely feature on the home under the headline, “Unusual Architecture is Feature of E.W. Tedlock Home.” There is a feeling of 1920s gaiety about the house – it is not hard to imagine Gatsby and Daisy dancing the night away here.
The home was built in the 1920s for Ernest W. and Ethel C. Tedlock. Ernest was an early motorcar enthusiast. In 1925 he was the manager and half owner of the Inter-State Auto company at 217 S. 8th Street. That year he purchased the Hudson-Clark Motor Company and this became the Hudson Tedlock Motor Company at 911-915 Felix.
It was the profits of this enterprise that gave Ernest the means to build his impressive home on Ashland Avenue, one of the most desirable residential neighborhoods in the city.
The Tedlocks had two children, Dorothy Byrne (born about 1909) and Ernest Warnock Jr. (born in 1910). Dorothy was a socially active young woman and the newspapers frequently contained stories about the parties she held at the house. In 1930, her engagement to Franklyn Hull of Dodge City, KS was announced. Ernest Jr. attended college at the University of Missouri where he was the editor of the literary magazine. He returned to St. Joseph after college and went to work for a time for his father at Tedlock Motor Company, which in 1940 was located at 317-19 South 9th St. The Tedlock household was busy enough to require household help. In 1930 a cook, Inga Berggren, and a chauffer, Gayle Ward, lived at the residence.
In the mid- 1940s, Ernest Sr. and Ethel moved to California. They sold the house to J. Russell Scanlan and his wife Margaret L. Scanlan was a pharmacist who worked as sales manager for Zerbst Pharmaceutical Company. He and Margaret had two daughters. Their daughter Nancy was chosen as the 1949 St. Joseph Relays Queen. J. Russell died unexpectedly at the home on April 15, 1962 but his wife Margaret continued to live there well in to the 1970s.
This stunning home has been much loved by the families that grew up here and it certainly is a fitting venue for your hopes and dreams as well!
