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The Present Past Mechanicstown Photo Courtesy of Cochran family (current owners)
A House Divided to Thurmont,
a name made
by “My Father’s Son” — Part I — official by the
Maryland
General
Sallie K. Harrison-Boyce- Queen Anne architecture quickly Assembly on
Auginbaugh-Boyce may have never became in-vogue when introduced January 18,
figured out exactly what she wanted to America in the 1880s. “Eastlake” 1894. Cassell
in a husband, but she certainly knew was a term born from the book Hints was publisher
what she fancied from a house. In on Household Taste, published in and editor of
early 1902, the Catoctin Clarion the United Kingdom during 1872 the Catoctin
and Star and Sentinel, published by British painter, collector, writer, Clarion and a
“A Matrimonial Mix,” an article architect, and designer, Charles Real Estate and
explaining how Sallie Boyce first Locke Eastlake. Eastlake, the style, is Insurance broker Photo shows the original Auginbaugh House (to the left) and the eight-room
married and divorced a man named identified by intricate ornamentation partnered with Annex built on to the right.
Harrison, wed Harrison’s new wife’s added to a home, commonly of Fredericktown’s Charles Cramer Waters. poor weather.
father, surname Boyce, to be left a Queen Anne-style. The consistency Born in Lewistown to Dr. James K. While Cassell, his wife Julia,
widow, and lastly wed Thurmont’s of geometric and larger-scale forms Waters, Charles Waters returned from and their six children lived on the
Water Street Jeweler Eber E. within Eastlake ideology is what Military Academy at age eighteen to property, Aurora was the site of
Auginbaugh. Marital mishaps aside, some believe makes it an independent engage in the drug business with his many dances, socials, and parties;
Sallie’s union to Auginbaugh brought style rather than a contributing father. In 1896, Waters married Rosa some hosted by daughter Mary
Thurmont its most unique and schematic. L.R. Jones and, more importantly, Phoebe for her whist bridge club,
recognizable residence, located at From the exterior, Auginbaugh’s to our interests, purchased a house who had the evening outside the
513 East Main Street. home had a cross-gable roofline, in Thurmont with Charles Cassell. formidable home illuminated with
After the death of her second embellished wall surfaces of varying The June Clarion of 1897 informed hanging Japanese lanterns on at least
husband, Sallie moved to Thurmont textures, and a large veranda that Waters “purchased the Mrs. S.K. one occasion. The Cassell’s home
and, perhaps while scrutinizing around a central protrusion beneath Boyce property in the east end and is was also the site of the first private
gemstones in Mr. Auginbaugh’s a crowning front gable, all being erecting an eight-room addition. Mr. tennis court in Northern Maryland,
store for a specimen fitting of her Queen Anne characteristics. Also, and Mrs. C.E. Cassell will take the where many local and inner city
exquisite taste, became involved on queue were decorative horizontal property and keep summer boarders matches were viewed.
with the jeweler. Sallie would soon bands, raised wood adornments, this season.” In 1907, the Cassell family left
be Mrs. Eber Auginbaugh, but only fish scale shingles, diamond shaped The addition by Cassell and Aurora Cottage. It was sold to the
after a pre-nuptial agreement was detailing, truss ornamentation, and Waters, known as the “Annex,” Roddy family, who refurbished the
drawn and endorsed by husband- elaborate windows like the stained resembled a large block. In agreement home and temporarily boarded
to-be number three. In 1894, Sallie glass piece between the porch and with the adjoining home, the front crews in the home’s excess space
purchased a plot of land on the reception area. of the Annex had a sizeable gable, while Thurmont was wired for
periphery of town, just west of the Living in the home only briefly, complete with twin ocular window telephone service. In 1911, Chas.
road to Apples Church. That autumn the Auginbaugh’s marriage, too, and decorative band between C. Waters repurchased the home
saw the start of what would become ended in divorce. By May 1896, the upper levels. Expanded to and relocated wife Rosa and
the spectacular home. Sallie’s home—on the “high ground accommodate twenty-five boarders, twelve-year-old son James from
Between 1894 and 1895, the east of town” as described by the the property was christened “Aurora Fredericktown to become permanent
Catoctin Clarion newspaper Clarion—was for sale. Sallie’s former Cottage.” Reason unknown, Cassell, residents of Aurora Cottage in
provided regular reports on the husband, Eber, quietly closed shop having cleverly renamed the town, is 1912. Multiple town Inns could no
home’s construction. The outcome and left town later that year, Sallie probably also liable for this moniker, longer be filled, so arrangements to
rendered a fine example of “Queen already gone and reclaiming the but is a fact that cannot be said for rid the Waters’ home of its eastern
Anne”/“Eastlake” architecture name Boyce. sure. Current owner Debbie Cochran Annex—returning the structure to
unseen throughout Thurmont. September 1897 ran the first ad has her own theory concerning the Sallie Boyce’s vision of what stands
Depending upon the historian, Queen for “Aurora Cottage.” Along with designation of her home; being today—were made.
Anne and Eastlake may be combined a request for all Clarion readers that the house was located on the Long owned since 1986 by James
together or kept categorized as to assist “in filling the house with “high ground east of town,” it and Debra Cochran, Aurora Cottage
two styles, either stance supported guests,” the ad highlighted two acres received day’s first light before its has received the devotion and
by Mrs. Auginbaugh’s address. of shade, bathrooms with hot and western-lying municipality. Language preservation many older homes are
cold water, and “all the comforts of and legend hold “Aurora” as the not paid. The one hundred twenty-
home,” address: Mr. & Mrs. Chas. E. Latin translation of “dawn” and, two years bonded to Aurora Cottage
Cassell, Aurora Cottage. respectively, the Roman Goddess of and, more greatly, Mrs. Cochran’s
Charles Ellsworth Cassell came the Morning. invaluable interest in the happenings
to Mechanicstown in 1871 and Beyond the house, Aurora Cottage of these dozen decades, leaves much
operated a lumber company with his had a two-story carriage house light to be shed on the estate’s story.
two cousins, sons of father Abraham (present today), a barn, chicken house, As this Part I ends in 1912, some
Cassell’s sister Catherine. Charles and sheds, some still standing on readers may be aware of the fate
was also a land man who purchased neighboring properties. The driveway, ahead for the Annex, even less of
tracts to subdivide and resell. Cassell marked by sculptural, pyramid- the tragedy looming to occur in
resold many holdings of Col. John topped masonry pillars, arrived at 1918, or the consequential court
C. Rouzer as the lots of West Main, the front entrance but also accessed a ruling to forever change the home’s
North (now N. Church), and East western entry en route to the carriage imminent use, among other events.
Streets, for example. Cassell was house. This secondary entry, now Much more remains on the pages of
a distinguished figure involved in removed entirely, was comparable to Aurora Cottage to be shelved only
many business ventures, lived in a porte-cochere, sheltered by an oriel momentarily and revisited here with
many fine homes, and most famously window, extending from the second the arrival of The Catoctin Banner’s
recommended the change from floor, used by guests arriving during May issue.
The Present Past Mechanicstown Photo Courtesy of Cochran family (current owners)
A House Divided to Thurmont,
a name made
by “My Father’s Son” — Part I — official by the
Maryland
General
Sallie K. Harrison-Boyce- Queen Anne architecture quickly Assembly on
Auginbaugh-Boyce may have never became in-vogue when introduced January 18,
figured out exactly what she wanted to America in the 1880s. “Eastlake” 1894. Cassell
in a husband, but she certainly knew was a term born from the book Hints was publisher
what she fancied from a house. In on Household Taste, published in and editor of
early 1902, the Catoctin Clarion the United Kingdom during 1872 the Catoctin
and Star and Sentinel, published by British painter, collector, writer, Clarion and a
“A Matrimonial Mix,” an article architect, and designer, Charles Real Estate and
explaining how Sallie Boyce first Locke Eastlake. Eastlake, the style, is Insurance broker Photo shows the original Auginbaugh House (to the left) and the eight-room
married and divorced a man named identified by intricate ornamentation partnered with Annex built on to the right.
Harrison, wed Harrison’s new wife’s added to a home, commonly of Fredericktown’s Charles Cramer Waters. poor weather.
father, surname Boyce, to be left a Queen Anne-style. The consistency Born in Lewistown to Dr. James K. While Cassell, his wife Julia,
widow, and lastly wed Thurmont’s of geometric and larger-scale forms Waters, Charles Waters returned from and their six children lived on the
Water Street Jeweler Eber E. within Eastlake ideology is what Military Academy at age eighteen to property, Aurora was the site of
Auginbaugh. Marital mishaps aside, some believe makes it an independent engage in the drug business with his many dances, socials, and parties;
Sallie’s union to Auginbaugh brought style rather than a contributing father. In 1896, Waters married Rosa some hosted by daughter Mary
Thurmont its most unique and schematic. L.R. Jones and, more importantly, Phoebe for her whist bridge club,
recognizable residence, located at From the exterior, Auginbaugh’s to our interests, purchased a house who had the evening outside the
513 East Main Street. home had a cross-gable roofline, in Thurmont with Charles Cassell. formidable home illuminated with
After the death of her second embellished wall surfaces of varying The June Clarion of 1897 informed hanging Japanese lanterns on at least
husband, Sallie moved to Thurmont textures, and a large veranda that Waters “purchased the Mrs. S.K. one occasion. The Cassell’s home
and, perhaps while scrutinizing around a central protrusion beneath Boyce property in the east end and is was also the site of the first private
gemstones in Mr. Auginbaugh’s a crowning front gable, all being erecting an eight-room addition. Mr. tennis court in Northern Maryland,
store for a specimen fitting of her Queen Anne characteristics. Also, and Mrs. C.E. Cassell will take the where many local and inner city
exquisite taste, became involved on queue were decorative horizontal property and keep summer boarders matches were viewed.
with the jeweler. Sallie would soon bands, raised wood adornments, this season.” In 1907, the Cassell family left
be Mrs. Eber Auginbaugh, but only fish scale shingles, diamond shaped The addition by Cassell and Aurora Cottage. It was sold to the
after a pre-nuptial agreement was detailing, truss ornamentation, and Waters, known as the “Annex,” Roddy family, who refurbished the
drawn and endorsed by husband- elaborate windows like the stained resembled a large block. In agreement home and temporarily boarded
to-be number three. In 1894, Sallie glass piece between the porch and with the adjoining home, the front crews in the home’s excess space
purchased a plot of land on the reception area. of the Annex had a sizeable gable, while Thurmont was wired for
periphery of town, just west of the Living in the home only briefly, complete with twin ocular window telephone service. In 1911, Chas.
road to Apples Church. That autumn the Auginbaugh’s marriage, too, and decorative band between C. Waters repurchased the home
saw the start of what would become ended in divorce. By May 1896, the upper levels. Expanded to and relocated wife Rosa and
the spectacular home. Sallie’s home—on the “high ground accommodate twenty-five boarders, twelve-year-old son James from
Between 1894 and 1895, the east of town” as described by the the property was christened “Aurora Fredericktown to become permanent
Catoctin Clarion newspaper Clarion—was for sale. Sallie’s former Cottage.” Reason unknown, Cassell, residents of Aurora Cottage in
provided regular reports on the husband, Eber, quietly closed shop having cleverly renamed the town, is 1912. Multiple town Inns could no
home’s construction. The outcome and left town later that year, Sallie probably also liable for this moniker, longer be filled, so arrangements to
rendered a fine example of “Queen already gone and reclaiming the but is a fact that cannot be said for rid the Waters’ home of its eastern
Anne”/“Eastlake” architecture name Boyce. sure. Current owner Debbie Cochran Annex—returning the structure to
unseen throughout Thurmont. September 1897 ran the first ad has her own theory concerning the Sallie Boyce’s vision of what stands
Depending upon the historian, Queen for “Aurora Cottage.” Along with designation of her home; being today—were made.
Anne and Eastlake may be combined a request for all Clarion readers that the house was located on the Long owned since 1986 by James
together or kept categorized as to assist “in filling the house with “high ground east of town,” it and Debra Cochran, Aurora Cottage
two styles, either stance supported guests,” the ad highlighted two acres received day’s first light before its has received the devotion and
by Mrs. Auginbaugh’s address. of shade, bathrooms with hot and western-lying municipality. Language preservation many older homes are
cold water, and “all the comforts of and legend hold “Aurora” as the not paid. The one hundred twenty-
home,” address: Mr. & Mrs. Chas. E. Latin translation of “dawn” and, two years bonded to Aurora Cottage
Cassell, Aurora Cottage. respectively, the Roman Goddess of and, more greatly, Mrs. Cochran’s
Charles Ellsworth Cassell came the Morning. invaluable interest in the happenings
to Mechanicstown in 1871 and Beyond the house, Aurora Cottage of these dozen decades, leaves much
operated a lumber company with his had a two-story carriage house light to be shed on the estate’s story.
two cousins, sons of father Abraham (present today), a barn, chicken house, As this Part I ends in 1912, some
Cassell’s sister Catherine. Charles and sheds, some still standing on readers may be aware of the fate
was also a land man who purchased neighboring properties. The driveway, ahead for the Annex, even less of
tracts to subdivide and resell. Cassell marked by sculptural, pyramid- the tragedy looming to occur in
resold many holdings of Col. John topped masonry pillars, arrived at 1918, or the consequential court
C. Rouzer as the lots of West Main, the front entrance but also accessed a ruling to forever change the home’s
North (now N. Church), and East western entry en route to the carriage imminent use, among other events.
Streets, for example. Cassell was house. This secondary entry, now Much more remains on the pages of
a distinguished figure involved in removed entirely, was comparable to Aurora Cottage to be shelved only
many business ventures, lived in a porte-cochere, sheltered by an oriel momentarily and revisited here with
many fine homes, and most famously window, extending from the second the arrival of The Catoctin Banner’s
recommended the change from floor, used by guests arriving during May issue.
