(19) 510 E. Third Street

"In the rear of the Roper building (Third and Main) was once a Chinese laundry. Hobart's Post Office was in the building from 1889 until 1910. Here also has been Baumer's bakery, dental office, art supply store and barber shop. Partlow's law office, Pfeifer's barber shop, and the Oasis saloon are now here. Upstairs are Peddicord and Troutman law offices and Krulls surveyor offices with a residence over the Oasis. Different owners have had beauty parlors on the second floor. The Jewel Shop (237 Main St.) now occupies the corner rooms."

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♦ Circa 1928, interior views of the offices of William J. Krull and Roscoe R. Peddicord (and no doubt you'll recognize Attorney Peddicord's house).

(49) 237 Main Street

"The large brick building on the corner was built by James Roper. There Rob Randhan had a meat market in the downstairs rooms. This was later Roper's Market and then Carstensen's market. Remodeled, it became the American Trust and Savings Bank. When banks closed during the Depression, Peter Bates opened a saloon and candy store. Into these rooms the Hobart Federal Savings and Loan moved from space in the 300 block of Main Street. Now Matt Seling's Jewel Shop is here."

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♦ Views of the building and its interior as well as a portrait of James Roper, Jr., all circa 1898.
♦ This image is undated, but must be prior to 1926 (when the building was remodeled with its current Neoclassical façade).
♦ A 1971 newspaper article that talks about the soda-bottling works operated in the basement of the Roper building by Hugo Zobject (or Zobjeck) between 1904 and 1908. (I do not have the photograph that accompanied the article.)
♦ Photographed outside the Bates restaurant and candy store, this float took second prize in the Labor Day parade of 1931 (according to notes on the back of the original).
♦ A bank on the main floor, the Peddicord law offices upstairs, in 1964 and 1965.
♦ A 1973 street view that includes The Jewel Shop at 237 Main; an interior view of The Jewel Shop in 1971.

(63) Address unknown

"On the next lot a building on the alley housed Wells Garage with access on Main Street. A little frame building was built on Main Street and here Attorney R.R. Peddicord had an office."

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♦ In this circa-1910 street scene showing the 300 block of Main Street, just left of center you can see a narrow black sign jutting out over the sidewalk, with white lettering: "WELLS' GARAGE" (marked version of the photo.) Here is an ad for KRIT autos that B.C. Wells placed in the Hobart Gazette of February 2, 1912, though I don't know for certain that he sold them out of this garage.