(8) 701 E. Third Street

"Jerry Killigrew's blacksmith's shop was on this lot in the 1880s. Roper Brothers built the building in the 1920s and were the agency for Chevrolet cars and later Ford cars. Paul Heuring was the next owner and sold Fords. When Heuring relocated, Express Auto opened."

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♦ This circa-1928 image shows the newly built home of the Roper brothers' auto sales business.
♦ The Paul Heuring Ford dealership, probably circa 1968 (and here is the Heuring "Bargain Lot," exact location unknown).
♦ Outside Express Auto Supply in 1972; inside in 1975.

(46) Middle of 200 block of Main Street, east side (northerly part)

"A tinsmith and plumbing shop occupied a building at the rear of the next lot. Walker's Print Shop once rented rooms here. The next land on the east side of the 200 block of Main Street was Killigrew and Black property. The Joseph Black brick building was built in 1858. Here he operated a trading post and for 8 years (1861-1869) the Hobart post office. Black's son, Fred, continued the store and old timers recall, as boys, seining minnows and selling them to Black for his bait supply. The business was closed in the 1920s. Later a grocery store was located in this area. The Black building was razed in 1935 and the Hobart Post Office (221 Main St.) was built in 1937 on the Black and Killigrew property. (Leon Killigrew was Joseph Black's grandson.)"

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♦ This circa-1935 view takes in much of the 200 block of Main Street, including where the post office is now located.
♦ The future site of the Hobart post office on September 18, 1935. The photographer stood in the alley behind the post office site and pointed his camera west toward Main Street.
♦ Sometime in 1960 the Hobart Herald printed this article about the removal of the Killigrew house from 205 Main.
♦ This 1969 yearbook ad gives the address for Walker Printing as 205 Main.

(58) 238 Main Street

"On the corner Vossberg's Clothing Store with residences upstairs was once Cully Swanson's General Store. John Fiester succeeded Swanson here and also ran a bowling alley and pool parlor in the basement. Then it was a drugstore and proprietors were McComber, Penneman, Mr. and Mrs. Dyche, Badanish and Scholl. Dr. Brink and later Dr. Ader, then Dr. Kraft had offices upstairs. In the rear was a building Leon Calvert used for his tin shop."

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♦ A circa-1907 view of this building from the west side of Lake George.
♦ Evidently Dr. Gordon also had an office upstairs in this building around 1909.
♦ An early-20th-century postcard that takes in the northwest corner of Main and Third.
♦ A circa-1940 view of Main Street that includes this building.
♦ Two posts with side views of the 238 Main Street building.
♦ Around 1898, this building was occupied by the general merchandise establishment of Fiester & Killigrew.
♦ 238 Main Street housed the Fiester Ice Cream Parlor when this circa-1917 image was photographed.
♦ Dyche's Drugstore appears in this undated image at Third and Main Streets; here it is again in 1947, as a parade celebrating Hobart's centennial turns onto Third Street from Main. (Remodeling work on this building in September 2013 brought to light once again the old "Dyche Drug Co." sign on its façade.)
♦ Inside Main Drugs in 1968.
♦ This photo of the Rexall Drugstore is undated, but that car down on Third Street is a 1971 Buick LeSabre.