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ColinBurgess
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posted 10-29-2014 03:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for ColinBurgess   Click Here to Email ColinBurgess     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I'm hoping someone can give me the definitive answer to a rather perplexing problem. According to the book "John H. Glenn, Astronaut" by Pierce and Schuon, as well as some websites, the astronaut was born at 1201 Foster Avenue in Cambridge, Ohio. However other seemingly authoritative websites give the address as 1525 Foster Avenue. Does anyone here know the correct address?

In his own autobiographical writing, Glenn does not give the actual address, and when referring to Cambridge in a couple of interviews I found (he lived there the first two years of his life) he only mentions being born on Foster Avenue.

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posted 10-29-2014 09:07 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for fredtrav   Click Here to Email fredtrav     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Have you contacted the Glenn Museum in Cambridge?

onesmallstep
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posted 10-29-2014 11:58 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for onesmallstep   Click Here to Email onesmallstep     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The museum is actually the John & Annie Glenn Historic Site now, relocated to Main St. in New Concord, Ohio.

ColinBurgess
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posted 10-29-2014 09:43 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ColinBurgess   Click Here to Email ColinBurgess     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
A good suggestion - I've just sent off a message and will see what happens. Many thanks.

Robert Pearlman
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Adam Sackowitz, a 24-year-old graduate student from Westbury, New York, is working to see the two-story frame house in Cambridge, Ohio where Glenn was born on July 18, 1921, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
"My goal is to start up a nonprofit in Cambridge called the John Glenn Birthplace Foundation," he said. "I would also one day like to see a museum in Cambridge honoring Glenn. I hope to have the support of the community in starting this nonprofit and a museum. Currently his boyhood home in New Concord is a museum."

Sackowitz is also working with officials in Cambridge to have the building listed as a city landmark and to have signs at the entrance to the city saying that Glenn was born there.

...Daun Beyers, a retired teacher, lives in the house, at 1201 Foster Ave., where Glenn was born. Sackowitz has talked with her, and she supports his efforts to get it listed on the National Register.

The Ohio Historic Preservation Board is reviewing the application.

Glint
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posted 05-29-2018 10:13 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Glint   Click Here to Email Glint     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Visited the museum during the Memorial Day weekend. In the living room of the house there is an earth globe with red mapping tape indicating the ground track of Friendship Seven's three revolutions. It was said to have been used by his family to keep track of his flight. For me, this was the most poignant artifact in the entire museum as far as connecting the mission to the personal life of John Glenn.

After returning home I found the following description on Ohio State University's online John Glenn artifact inventory:

National Geographic globe of the Earth, dated 1961, with red tape denoting the routes of the three orbits made by John Glenn during his Friendship 7 spaceflight in 1962, given to his parents after the mission.
So, my question is this: Is the globe on display at the museum the actual artifact in the above description, or simply a reproduction?

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