Lucille Ball Childhood Home
Bill rapaport the current owner of lucille ball s childhood home in jamestown takes us on a tour of the home which features some incredible original details.
Lucille ball childhood home. Uploaded on october 16 2015. Here lucy lived with her mother younger brother freddie aunt lola cousin cleo and her grandparents fred and flora hunt from 1915 to 1927 when they moved into nearby jamestown. In her memoir love lucy ball writes that on july 4 1927 her grandfather in a holiday mood came home from work on the trolley with a mysterious object wrapped in brown paper it was a birthday present for ball s brother freddy who was about to turn 12 a real 22 caliber rifle despite freddy s excitement ball s father told him he couldn t shoot the gun until the next day after he. The address was originally 59 w.
Childhood home only a few minutes west of jamestown s center you ll find the home where lucy spent most of her childhood at 59 lucy lane in celeron. Lucille ball lived in this house when the death of her father in 1915 forced her mother to move into her parents home in celoron. Years later it was renamed lucy lane in honor of lucille. The home was most recently purchased via an ebay auction in 2002 for 98 500.
Born lucille desiree ball on august 6 1911 she and her mother dede made their home with her grandparents in celoron outside jamestown new york. Along with her brother.