Chronology of property transfers for the property on the south side of Hanshaw Rd owned by Louis L and Dorothy Otto at the time of the 1950 U.S. Census.
Deeds and maps referred to are all available from the online database service of the Tompkins County Clerk by searching by Instrument Number.
The property identified on Google maps in 2025 as 1409 Hanshaw Rd. corresponds to the property conveyed in the deeds listed below, which are all transfers of the east one acre of land conveyed by G.F. Warren to Flora Collins in 1922
BF064706-001 DEED Flora Collins to Herman and Martha J. DeLong, 5/3/1937.
BF125730-001 DEED Herman and Martha J. DeLong to Louis L. and Dorothy Otto, 10/23/1943
- The Otto family would have owned this property at the time of the 1950 census.
BF140745-001 DEED Louis L. and Dorothy Otto to Philip C. and Claire S. Townsend 08/23/1951
- Philip C. Townsend is listed at 1409 on Hanshaw Rd in the 1953 Ithaca City Directory.
BF075791-001 DEED Philip C. and Claire S. Townsend to Harry R. and Virginia L. Ainslie, 3/9/1954
BF115044-001 DEED Harry R. and Virginia L. Ainslie, to Robert W. and Virginia K. Shively, 8/25/1961
BF002042-001 MAP is a useful map that shows the location of the Ainslie property in 1954 and includes conversion of chains to feet