607 Hazel Brake
Lots 3 and 4
“The Grenelle House”
Built in 1911
Currently owned by Dan Sanderson and Anne Sawicki/Connie Pounds
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Clarence Grenelle (1856-1941) was a railroad man. He married Katherine White (1864-1931) in 1888 and they had three children, Charles C. (1890-1906), Norman Zelotes, (1892-1985), and Harold White Grenelle (1891-1972).
The came to California in 1895 and settled in Oakland where Clarence’s widowed mother had moved a few years earlier to open a hotel in Richmond, Ca. He joined the Southern Pacific Railroad where he stayed until retirement.
When Clarence died in 1940, he left the cabin to his son, Norman.
In 1911, the Grenelle family bought lot 4 and built their cabin upon it.
The Grenelle’s son Charles is killed after climbing a telegraph pole to work on a local system he and his friends designed.
Corita Grenelle?
chief yard clerk oakland, Chevrolet yard office
