(45) Southeast corner of Main and Second Streets

"The George Pedersen building was on the corner of Main and Second. An apartment upstairs was his home. He operated a wagon shop on the first floor, and in the rear Ernest Niksch had a blacksmith shop. Niksch also had a blacksmith shop on Main Street on the lake (114 Main St.). Dr. Storer, Dr. Markle, and Dr. Pruitt had offices in the building after Pedersen left. Northern Indiana Public Service Company offices were here before they built across the street. At one time the Hobart License Bureau also was here. A new building on the site is Edward's Store for Men (201 Main St.)."


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♦ The Pedersen building on November 29, 1913.
♦ A then-and-now post showing the Pedersen building.
♦ The Harrigan real estate and insurance office in the Pedersen building in 1966; and a nice photo of the whole building in September 1968.
♦ By 1973 Edward's menswear store had relocated from the Strattan building to this corner.
♦ By 1983 Edward's had become Greener's.

(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).