Records give the sale date as Aug. 4.
The new sale is exactly what Douglas Mann said he and his wife planned to do when they purchased the house less than two years ago. The Manns purchased the nearly 5,000-square-foot building at 208 W. Monument for $425,000 in October 2021.
At the time, Douglas Mann explained that selling the property to their daughter Kristen and her husband Aaron was what he and his wife intended to do, after restoration work.
“We are restoring the Peace Museum back into a residential house in conjunction with our daughter Kristin, her husband Aaron and our grandson River,” Mann said in an email to the Dayton Daily News in 2021. “We are putting up an eight-foot fence in the back area, and we hope to display local street artist work there for many years to come.”
It took a lot of work, but it’s done, Mann said Friday. The old house had some “great bones,” but it nevertheless needed new electric work, new heating and air-conditioning investments, nurturing of green space in the rear of the house and more.
“They moved in,” he said Friday of his daughter and son-in-law. “They’re still unpacking it, but they love it.”
Mann is an attorney with the Dayton law firm of Dyer, Garofalo, Mann & Schultz L.P.A., perhaps best known locally for the firm’s “get the tiger on your side” TV and radio commercials. Beth Mann is president of FLOC (For Love of Children), a Dayton nonprofit organization.
In 2021, the Dayton International Peace Museum moved to a Courthouse Square address downtown, formerly a branch of U.S. Bank, a 4,600-square-foot space lined with street-level windows.
One goal for the new space, which offered room to seat 165 people, was to host events, Kevin Kelly, executive director of the museum, said in 2021.
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