beat the flyers 7-4 >>> wendy davis: You may have never heard of Allentown's former "Wright School".. but you may have seen its former home... in the city's West End. Tonight's History's Headlines has more... about the house on Ott Street.>> reporter: "Home is where the heart is".. so the saying goes. And.. for more than five decades... Rose Chromiak's heart has been right here... deep in Allentown's West End.>> We're here about 55 years.>> reporter: Rose moved into the home on Ott Street with her husband Peter Jay and their four children in 1961. You might say.. it was a bit of a fixer-upper.>> rose chromiak: They had blackboards all over. The doors opened outward instead of indoors like a home. There was no kitchen in here.>> reporter: That's because the Chromiak's dream house... was once a school house. But the Chromiak kids... weren't complaing.>> jane larsen: We got to play on an in-ground playground in the back. Full playground. Sliding board, merry go round, swings. >> reporter: The Wright School was a Montessori school founded by Ada Wright in 1915. It re-located to Ott Street in 1940... after the home was vacated by its previous tenants. First, the home's original owner and his family left in 1923.>> jane larsen: From there it was run by one of the Muhlenberg College fraternities- Delta Theta.>> reporter: When the Wright School came along... it found favor with a neighbor who had deep pockets.>> jane larsen: Max Hess was a very big supporter of the Wright School.. only a half a block away from where they lived. >> reporter: Hess paid for the construction of an auditorium behind the school. It was around the same time that the property caught Peter Jay Chromiak's eye. a photographer by trade... he was tapped to photograph many of the Wright School's students.>> rose CHROMIAK:He liked the house. he thought it was a nice location. Very well built house. He wanted to own it.>> reporter: Now family members hope the home's next owners will cherish it as much as they did.>> jane larsen: Just would hope to have somebody carry it on..
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