Marietta · Washington County, Ohio · United States
137 Hillcrest Drive, Marietta — the Eesleys' house
The Eesley family's Marietta house after their 1983 move back from Annapolis — the home Chuck Eesley grew up in through his early childhood, a few doors down the same street from his great-aunt and -uncle Betty and Norm Wolfe at 108 Hillcrest, before the family moved on to Highland Ridge Road. Documented in the archive by a winter exterior photograph from Charlie's own album, c. mid-1980s.
Why this place matters
Chuck's own childhood home for the middle stretch of his Marietta childhood, between the Annapolis colonial of his earliest years and the Highland Ridge house his architect-grandfather Will had designed. Its place on Hillcrest Drive put the Eesley household within a few doors of the Wolfes' holiday-host, sick-day-caregiver house at 108 — the reason so much of Chuck's childhood family life ran up and down this one street.
Across generations
137 Hillcrest Drive from the front yard in winter — patchy snow, bare trees, and a Christmas wreath on the front door. A single-story mid-century house with a low-pitched roof, a band of clerestory windows along the front wing, and a brick chimney at the right. A small figure, likely young Chuck, stands in the yard. Identified by Chuck Eesley 2026 as the house he grew up in before the family moved to Highland Ridge.
Alignment: The first exterior frame of the Hillcrest childhood house in the archive. From Charlie's photographs, scanned alongside the couple's early-1970s wedding portrait and a courtship-era note.
137 Hillcrest Drive, Marietta, Ohio is the house Charlie and Terrie Eesley moved into when the family came back to Marietta from Annapolis in 1983, and the house Chuck grew up in through his early childhood before the family moved on to Highland Ridge Road. Chuck was three when they arrived.
Down the street from the Wolfes
The address matters mostly for where it sits: a few doors from 108 Hillcrest Drive, the home of Chuck’s great-aunt Betty (Davis) Wolfe and her husband Norm Wolfe. Betty was the older sister of Chuck’s maternal grandmother Dottie; her house was the holiday-host and sick-day-caregiver anchor of Chuck’s childhood. That the Eesleys lived on the same short street meant the two households — the child’s own home and the great-aunt’s — were within a walk of each other for the years the family was on Hillcrest.
The Marietta-address geography
137 Hillcrest joins the small cluster of family addresses across both sides of Chuck’s family in and around Marietta:
- 137 Hillcrest Drive (this page) — Chuck’s own childhood house, 1983 into the mid-1980s.
- 108 Hillcrest Drive — the Wolfes’ house, a few doors down.
- Highland Ridge Road — the house Will the architect designed and built, where the family lived for most of the rest of Chuck’s childhood.
- 651 Sixth Street — Will and Peggy’s first Marietta house, where Charlie grew up.
- 424 N 7th Street — Grandma Peggy’s widow’s house.
- 413 Harmar Street — Robert Earl Wildermuth’s childhood house on the maternal side.
The photograph
The one surviving frame of the house in this archive is a winter exterior from Charlie’s own photographs, c. mid-1980s — scanned on the same sheet as the Charlie-and-Terrie wedding portrait. A Google Street View capture or Washington County property record would round out the exterior record, as it has for the other addresses in the cluster.
Source: family memory transmitted by Chuck Eesley 2026; winter exterior photograph from Charlie’s album.