GAYLEEN GINDY. 6407 MONROE ST.

In 1937 James and Leona Underwood purchased the residential house that once sat on this parcel, built by Ray West. West developed this land along the south side of Monroe Street into 14 lots, which he called Hubbard’s Addition to Sylvania. This parcel was Lot No. 11, and included a 50-foot by 60-foot parcel behind it.
In the 1940 census the Underwoods were listed living here. James, 37, owned the home valued at $2,960 and was employed as a lineman for an electric light company. His wife Leona was 35 years old and their sons Wallace, 16 and James, Jr. 8 attended school.
In 1941 Wallace, 18, completed his WW II registration and listed this address. On July 8, 1943, the Sylvania Sentinel noted that Corp. Wallace Underwood had qualified as a marksman on the rifle range at Camp Carson, Colo.
In 1959 James Underwood, Sr., ran for Sylvania Village Council. A bio appeared in the Sylvania Sentinel as follows: “This is Mr. Underwood’s second try for election to Village Council. He was defeated for such a post in 1957. He has lived in Sylvania for more than 30 years. Mr. Underwood is 56, is married and has three sons. He is supervisor for the Toledo Edison Co. in Sylvania and is a member of the Masons and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 245. The Underwood residence is 6407 Monroe St. He is supported by the Civic League also.”
James Underwood, Sr. died in December 1983. His Toledo Blade obituary stated he died at Flower Hospital, was 80 years old, a former Sylvania city councilman and a retired superintendent for Toledo Edison Co. Underwood served on council after Sylvania became a city in 1960, and was elected to a two-year term in the city’s first municipal elections in 1961. He lived in Sylvania for 56 years, and started with Toledo Edison Company as a lineman, spending 40 years with the firm, and retiring in 1968. He became a line crew foreman and then a superintendent. He was a member of the Electrical Workers Union Local 245, past president of the Sylvania Democratic Club, served as central and precinct Democratic committeeman, was a Master Mason and a member for more than 50 years of the Lyons, Ohio Masonic Lodge. He was also a member of the Sylvania Loyal Order of Moose. Surviving were his wife Leona and his sons, Wallace and James, Jr
In 1985 the home transferred into Leona’s name, and that year Kevin Charles was issued a zoning permit to install an illuminated building sign here for Kevin Charles Hair Artistry.
On Oct. 26, 1986, the Toledo Blade printed the obituary for Leona Underwood, 82, who died in Spring Meadows Extended Care Center in Holland where she had lived two months.
Charles K. and Mary Anne Johnson purchased the home in 1988, and in July 1989 Kevin Charles was issued a zoning permit to demolish this home and 6403 Monroe Street.
In January 1991 a zoning permit was issued for Tom Brown to build a structure for Kevin Charles and Mary Johnson on this land.The Harmon Sign Company was issued a sign permit for Kevin Charles to install a double-faced illuminated low-profile sign in July 1992.
In 1997 the building transferred to Mary Anne Johnson and in 2003 transferred into the name of 6407 Monroe LLC
The property was sold in 2011 and transferred into the name of Haerwig Properties, LLC, and in March 2012 a zoning permit was issued for interior remodeling for a new Sylvania Orthodontics office.
A zoning permit to renovate 1,240 square feet of the lower level of 6407 Monroe St. for a beauty salon was issued to Haerwig Properties, LLC, by Thomas J. Bogdan, Jr. in January 2013.
The 2019 Toledo Suburban Polk Directory listed the following occupying 6407 Monroe St.: Mary Anne Johnson, health services; Perfect Braces, dentists; Shamas Beauty Salons; Sylvania-Lambertville, dentists; Sylvania Orthodontics; and Willow Creek Salon. Today the building houses HLH Orthodontics and Willow Creek Salon.