186 Park Hill Avenue
Also listed as Highcliff Hall; Highcliff Hall Hotel; Wallace Lodge
Noteworthy: Deed research identifies this parcel as Highcliff Hall, also described in the 1903 Anne Brown deed covenants as a Young Ladies' School or School for Girls. The same deed-master note records that Highcliff Hall later became Highcliff Hall Hotel; the property was known as Wallace Lodge just before it became part of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
American Real Estate Company to Anne Brown (1903)
This deed conveyed a complex Park Hill parcel to Anne Brown and is the key source now tying present-day 186 Park Hill Avenue to Highcliff Hall. The deed contains extensive covenants for seminary and Young Ladies' School use, private residence use, boarding-house use, and later enforcement by the American Real Estate Company and neighboring owners. Later Park Hill deeds repeatedly cite this instrument for the Young Ladies' School covenant, making it an important reference point for understanding restrictions across nearby Park Hill parcels.
Potential deed matches (1896, 1901)
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Related source items (1905 to 1923)
Related images show the property under its Highcliff Hall and Wallace Lodge identities, before and after its hotel/school period became part of the larger institutional history of the site.
- 1905 A VictorianSource.com image captioned "HIGHCLIFF HALL PARK HILL" shows the building in a snowy landscape, viewed from below across a rocky stream or ravine, with a prominent rounded bay or tower-like corner, broad roofline, chimney, and multiple windows. Source: VictorianSource.com.
- 1923 A VictorianSource.com image associated with Wallace Lodge shows the large house or institutional building at the far end of a tree-lined lawn or drive, with a broad roof, dormers, multi-story facade, and central or near-central entrance. The filename spells the subject "Wallace Loge"; local Park Hill reference material identifies the name as Wallace Lodge. Source: VictorianSource.com.