“In 1874 and in preparation for his marriage to Augusta Palm, Bremond paid $15,000 for an Italinate house at 404 W. 7th and the empty lot next door. The house was a white frame structure belonging to D. C. Sandel, a mattress-maker. Eugene remodeled the structure, smoothing out the Victorian edges of the bay window and adding a graceful, curving porch. The home was a present for his new wife and the couple and Eugene’s four children moved in to the house that would be Eugene’s home for the rest of his life.26
Two more children were born to Eugene and Augusta, Pierre Augusta Bremond and Maud E. Bremond, bringing the number to six”