The land on which this double house was built was owned by Walter T. Jackson (1860-1938) and his wife, Nellie, in the early 1900s (they also had owned 112 South Washington Street). Walter Jackson was a fish and game warden and a successful duck gunner and in the 1920s was appointed to the Board of Directors of Citizens National Bank. It appears most likely that Walter Jackson built this duplex home.

To build the house, Jackson used a Sears Roebuck Model Kit Home, called the Dumont Duplex. A standard Sears Home Kit contained around 25 tons of materials, more than 30,000 parts, 750 lbs of nails, along with a 75-page instruction book that were shipped directly to the purchaser. The 370 different designs were only offered in Sears mail order catalogs between 1908 and 1940. Sears houses built after 1916 have stamped lumber elements that could be found in attics or basements. Pictures of some models are listed online at: http://arts-crafts.com/archive/sears/, but many homes have since been modified.

#114 (north side): The Jacksons sold this side of the double home to Esther O’Neill Jackson Smith (said to be a descendant of Defender John O’Neill) in 1925. In 1943, this was bought by Hardy L. and Erma W. McSpadden, where Jay McSpadden (their son) and his sister lived until 1985. They used to enjoy watching the 4th of July Parade with their whole family from their front porch; the parade went south on Washington Street in those days. Jay remembers when a friend sent a monkey to his Dad once as a joke; his Dad kept it and named it Judy. The monkey would sit on his Dad’s shoulder and take pens out of his pocket and throw them! They kept a cage in the basement for Judy. The McSpaddens ran a business, City Tailors, on North Washington Street; later they owned McSpadden Cleaners at the corner of Pennington Avenue and Washington Street.

In 1985 the widowed Erma McSpadden sold the home to Harry and Sue Lingenfelter. The house then descended through the late Douglas Lingenfelter in 2009 and in 2017 to Glen B. and Sue Lingenfelter, the current owners. It is assumed that this is an investment property since the Lingenfelters no longer live here.

#116 (south side): In 1928, Walter and Nellie Jackson also sold this side of the home to Esther O’Neill Jackson Smith who owned it for several years. However, in 1961 Esther Smith died intestate, leaving as her only heir her daughter, Virginia Lee Colburn, to inherit the house. Virginia and her husband, Raymond Colburn, sold the house that same year to Russell S. and Mary Jo Harkness. Russell and Mary Jo sold this side of the duplex to Harry and Sue Lingenfelter in 1963, the parents of Glen Lingenfelter who grew up here but now owns the house next door at #114.

Harry Lingenfelter, who worked as a mail carrier, had an interesting experience one day in 1954 when an elderly lady on Pink Lane whispered to him that “something evil happened” out over the water. When he returned to the post office he learned that a small plane had plunged into the Susquehanna Flats off Penn’s Beach Marina. It turned out that the open-cockpit propeller plane contained Captain Anthony J. Synodinos and 1st Lt. Edward G. Conrad who were members of the Civil Air Patrol on a search-and-rescue mission. They were searching for a missing Air Force jet that had gone down. The Coast Guard and local officials succeeded in recovering the Civil Air Patrol plane and the men's bodies, still in the cockpit, that evening. Both of the men were from Baltimore; Captain Synodinos was a naturalized citizen from Greece with a young son, and Lieutenant Conrad was an ordained Presbyterian minister who was scheduled to officiate at his daughter’s wedding that summer. There is a plaque honoring the men at the War Memorial in Tydings Park.

Harry Lingenfelter’s widow, Sue Lingenfelter, continues to own this house.

County Records
#114: Built 1930. 1368 sq ft, 2 stories with basement, 1 bath, 5400 sq ft lot. #116: Built 1930. 1668 sq ft, 2 stories with basement, 1 bath, detached garage, 6200 sq ft lot.