The land on which this house was located was owned by the Trotter
family in the 1880s and extended to Paper Mill Road  (now is 8820 to
8850 Montgomery Avenue) .  The Trotter name appears on the
1879 map of the area.  The Trotters or Prices built the house in the
1880s.  Susan Trotter Price, whose husband was Samuel Goodman,
Jr., who died in 1906 at age 28 in a jiujitsu accident, lived in this house
.
In 1922, the lot to the south of the Trotter family house was sold off. 
Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Sutro were the next owners of the house,
selling it to the Woods in  January 1947.   By the 1930s, the house
pictured was demolished because the taxes were too high for the
family to pay. 

The lot to the north was partitioned and a house was built in 1949 at
8848 Montgomery Avenue by Okie, architect,  for Mr. and Mrs.
Richard D. Wood (Virginia Wood Wilmsen later).  The site of the
present day 8848 is where the greenhouse was for the house pictured
above.  The carriage house to this house was still standing until 1949, 
in bad repair, so Mrs. Wilmsen had it demolished.  The circular
cinder/pebble driveway from the Goodman house was still there
until 1983, when Mrs. Wilmsen removed it. 

In 1922, the property on the corner of Paper Mill Road and
Montgomery Avenue was sold off and a house built (8850
Montgomery Avenue) designed by Marmaduke Tilden, architect. 

CHHS has an easement on the present-day house at 8840 Montgomery
Avenue.