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115 Ash Street
" Peter Wise Home "

This home was built in about 1888 and was the home of an early blacksmith in Myrtle Point, Peter Wise. The blacksmith shop was located on the sw corner of the lot.

On January 11, 1963, when the home was owned by Mr. & Mrs. Paul Meyer, a fire broke out about 7:00 in the morning. The top story of the house burned and the ceilings were gone. Shown in the photo of the fire is the 1939 fire engine which is still owned by the city of Myrtle Point.

The Myrtle Point Herald featured the following story on the front page of the paper on January 17, 1963.

Fire takes home

Volunteer firemen battled flames in the home of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Meyer on Ash Street for two hours early Friday morning, Jan. 11. The fire burned the entire upper story of the home, a vacant apartment, and left only the lower walls and some furniture in the first floor. Cause of the fire is unknown.
Mrs. Meyer was in San Benito, Texas, visiting her mother, who was ill. Mr. Meyer was on his way to work in Coquille when neighbors across the street saw flames shooting 20 feet up from the roof and called the fire department. Some of the furniture was saved when firemen covered it with plastic sheets.

The home also had an excelent orchard, as this mention in the West Oregonian indicates:
We had left on our table yesterday a small branch from a prune tree growing in the yard of Peter Wise, bearing fruit which for size and weight is hard to beat. There were thirty large prunes on the branch which weighed over five pounds.
Reprinted in the Coquille City Herald, September 11, 1894

Today, the owner of the home, Caroline Prola, works closely with the Skateboard Park and serves as an advocate for the park and as the area lost and found. Ms. Prola is also one of Myrtle Points local historians and very knowledgeable about the local area.