(6) 454 E. Fourth Street

"Sherman Henderson, who became Hobart City's first mayor, built a home and ice cream factory here. Hobart bought the building for a city hall, jail and fire-fighters' office in 1925."

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♦ This circa-1965 view shows the former Henderson ice-cream factory serving as the Hobart city hall.
♦ The new city hall has been built but the old city hall is still standing in this 1969 photo.

(69) 308 – 310 Main Street

"The next brick building was known as the Morton Building. Upstairs were living quarters and Dr. Morton had his dental office here. The store room downstairs has been an ice cream parlor, first Henderson's, then Fifield's and later Ellenberger's. Consumers Grocery Store was here and now it is Leon Gardner's Walgreen Agency. Dr. Storer once had offices upstairs."

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♦ Notes on this postcard, postmarked 1915, identify it as the Hobart Drug Store. From the signs out front we can see that the store also offered confectionery, soda, billiards, pool, cigars and tobacco.
♦ A 1957 yearbook ad showing the interior of Leon Gardner's Walgreen Agency; an undated photo of the drugstore's display window (with Bob Fowler standing in front of it).

(82) 414 – 426 Main Street

"Two houses were on the west side of the 400 block of Main before Hendersons built their ice cream factory (416 Main St.) with a residence upstairs. Both buildings were razed and the Hobart City Hall (414 Main St.) built in the 1960s. The Nickel Plate Garage operated at 426 Main St."

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♦ The Nickel Plate Garage and Main Street, looking north from around the Nickel Plate tracks. The image is undated, but judging by the cars it's probably from the 1920s.
♦ The Nickel Plate Garage is at the far left in this image, which is undated, but I'm guessing circa 1930s. (And I admit to being perplexed as to what that structure immediately to the north of the garage is.)
♦ In this photo from 1962, you get just a glimpse of the Nickel Plate Garage in the background at right.
♦ The new city hall under construction in July 1967.
♦ The new city hall at center, and the Nickel Plate Garage partially visible at left in this 1967 or 1968 photo.
♦ In later years the former Nickel Plate garage was used by the town of Hobart to house the Street, Sewer and Sanitation Departments and town equipment. Here is a slideshow of the garage building before and during its demolition in the spring of 1968.