Long Beach Farm House, 29014 Lake Road, c. 1902
29014 Lake Road, c. 1902. George and Emma Stocker Lang also lived in this home. She was a Krumwiede descendant. He was a funeral director and died in 1935. Photo by Will Krause
The 20th in a series of articles to be published as a walking tour of Lake Road by the Bay Village Historical Society in 2026.
John S. Williams purchased 50 acres of land from the Cahoons in 1902. It ran along Lake Erie between Lakeside Cemetery and the Huntington Estate, south to Wolf Road. The earliest date given for this house is 1878, however, tax records suggest it was more likely constructed in 1902 or 1909 and added to in 1926.
As viewed from the cemetery next door, it appears to be a simple vernacular gabled farm house to the rear with an unusual double gambrel roofed front addition. This may represent the transition from farm to summer home.
By 1914 the 50 acres was known as Long Beach Farm and by 1918 the Ellinwood family had purchased it. "Bay Village: A Way of Life" states that the Deklyn family, who owned a big confectionery store in town, occupied this house in the summers.
In the 1920s the 50 acres became Long Beach Park Subdivision and this house was sold. In 1950 John and Esther Houk purchased it. He was a butcher as well as the mayor of Bay at the time of the 1954 Marilyn Sheppard murder.
William Krause
William R. Krause, retired as the Assistant Planning Director of the City of Westlake in 2020 after over 30 years with the city. He also served on the Bay Village Planning Commission for 9 years. He was a trustee for the Bay Village Historical Society from 2020 to 2021 and a former board member of the Westlake Historical Society. He was chair of their Lilly Weston Committee and was a member of the Reuben Osborn Learning Center Steering Committee. He is currently a Trustee of the Western Reserve Architectural Historians and the Gates Mills Historical Society. He has been married to Debra for 42 years and is the father of three grown children, grandfather of six and co-owner of a Yellow Lab named Sadie.