Bistline
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Clouser-Niemeyer-Bistline Family
This illustrates the genealogy that led to the connection of these three famous Longwood families. ____________________ _____________| Josiah Benjamin | | Elizabeth || Clouser | <-m-> | Clouser || 1838-1920 |(cousins)| 1846-1910 ||____________________| | |_____________| | _______________ |________________ | Fred Niemeyer | <-m-> | Frances Clouser || 1864-1924 | | | 1870-1953 ||_______________| | |_________________| | ___________|___ ____________ | Addie | | John Aaron | | Neimeyer | <-m-> | Bistline | | 1889-1965 | | 1889-1978 | |_____________| |____________|
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Clouser Cottage
Josiah Benjamin Clouser lived in Pennsylvania with his wife and two children. When his wife’s health began to fail, doctors recommended that she move to a warmer-weather state to recuperate (a standard medical suggestion at the time). Being a carpenter by trade and seeing an advertisement by Longwood founder Edward Henck that they needed a master builder, he answered the call. In 1880, the family relocated to Longwood. Upon arriving, Clouser found the house provided to him was infested with fleas. He was disgusted and refused to stay in it after the first night. Hastily, Clouser built this temporary home…
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Bistline House
This one-story home was built in 1920. It is the typical stucco on wood frame. Gable roofs with wide overhangs, tapered porch columns on brick masonry piers and three-over-one double-hung windows are all elements of the Bungalow Style. Originally the front porch was open, but has since been enclosed. Its style still looks authentic and largely typical for the period. In researching its past residents: Andrew Weaver, a Longwood reserved policeman, lived here in the 1970s. It has been called the “Bistline House,” but I haven’t yet found when that family lived there.
