The Toledo News-Bee ran ads by Robert G. Ewing, real estate, on May 5, 1909 and April 6, 1910 advertising lots for sale in Tennyson Place.  A photograph, dated 1945, shows the home at 611 Tennyson Place.  Built in 1909, this was the home of Mary Johnson, the widow of Alfred Johnson.  Helen Wells, the widow of George Wells, lived here next according to the 1918, 1921 and 1924 city directories.