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The Present Past Waesche as the Maple Inn. Waesche jointed relation made the collective
Bros. & Co. was started in 1871, fourteen children (eight Waesche,
The Two Doc Birelys advertising: Sash, doors, blinds, six Cassell) both first and second
cousins simultaneously, and each
balusters & balustrades, newel
by “My Father’s Son” posts, handrails, wooden mantles, father’s nieces and nephews also his
moldings, brackets, circular work,
first-cousins once-removed! The final
washboards, casings, and four of the Waesche brood were born
A graduate of the Photos Courtesy of John Kinnaird’s ThurmontImages.com all manufactured building to the number 19 address, U.S.C.G.
University of Maryland materials. “We are prepared Rear Admiral Russell Randolph
Medical School, Morris to build at home or abroad, Waesche first in 1886, and Clinton
Alleman Birely set up from foundation to top Foreman Waesche last in 1895. The
a medical practice in complete, and finish in the 1900s approaching, L.R. Waesche
Thurmont in 1894. best workmanline manner, again became involved in the
Birely’s lengthy career HOUSES, on the most Catoctin Iron Works and left North
also recognized him as the reasonable terms.” At least Church Street for Catoctin Manor.
longtime physician to the forty-six homes were erected Waesche retained the town residence
Western Maryland Railway before 1883. until the family instead returned
Company and Emmitsburg’s Born Catharine Cassell, from the Furnace District to their
St. Joseph College. Morris Leonard Waesche’s mother newly acquired Park Lane property,
A. and wife Bertha Bushey was sister to Abraham Cassell, Dr. Birely purchasing their previous
Birely purchased the home at this time. The
family home of Leonard R. home’s exterior would
Waesche at 19 North Church always remain unaltered,
Street in April of 1907. excepting the exchange
Waesche owned the home, a of a window for a second
few doors away and across front entrance leading to
the street from his mother’s 19 N. Church Street: The Birely Home, c. 1874, as it Dr. Birely’s office.
residence, for twenty-five stood in 1962 prior to expansion of the Guardian Hose The same day Dr.
Company (also seen in the frame).
years. Still echoed today in Birely purchased his
local stories and accounts, home, he, too, acquired
“Doc Birely” was the name of Church). Cassell had his home North Church’s opposite
health and medicine in our northern constructed by brothers Leonard structure, numbered
region between 1894 and 1961, the R. and James T. Waesche, who 16, from Colonel John
association split between Morris A. built many homes in town during R. Rouzer. A masonry
(in practice fifty-three years), and this time. Most indicative that the form of an early duplex,
later his son, Morris F. Birely, who Birely’s home was built by the pair this structure was
followed his father as a practitioner is the distinctive aforementioned made of two nearly
beginning in 1944. front porch. symmetrical “L”-shaped
The Birely home, built in 1874 Formed of concrete, the units mirrored together,
by Charles E. Cassell, stood between square paneled pedestals, shallow 16 N. Church Street: The home and practice of the Junior Dr. Morris forming an overall
St. John’s Lutheran Church and spandrel arches, and circular Birely and family, built by John R. Rouzer in 1890. “T”-shaped footprint
the former Town Hall, which also columns fit between, in addition divided vertically into
acted as an engine house for the to stylized cast balustrades with Charles E. Cassell’s father. L. R. two units between the adjacent front
Fire Company. The all-brick home urn-planter terminations, make this Waesche and wife, Mary Martha doorways. A rear-sloping shed roof
featured a wrap-around porch porch the archetype of what became “Molly” Foreman, were conveyed allows this surviving building to
overlooking the street, a semi-circular a Waesche signature, with variations the Cassell home in 1882 by Charles appear from the front as flat-roofed
window framed by a turn-gable later displayed on Waesche projects (Leonard’s first cousin) and wife. and three stories with an elaborate
above the front balcony, and a like their 108 Park Lane and Matters further entwined, this entablature, crowning the edifice
turreted bay-window exaggerating 11 S. Carroll Street (soon to be conveyance likewise transferred to deter rainwater necessitated by
its southwest corner (seldom visible demolished) homes, as well as the Mary M. Waesche the home of her the roof’s eave-less design. The
in photographs, but occasionally 1913 remodel of the former High sister, Julia C. Foreman Cassell; left portion of Rouzer’s building
appearing in the background of School, once located between 210 the sisters having each married contained son Morris F. Birely’s
views taken of neighboring St. John’s and 302 E. Main Street, operated by one of the cousins. This double- — Continued on page 43 —
The Present Past Waesche as the Maple Inn. Waesche jointed relation made the collective
Bros. & Co. was started in 1871, fourteen children (eight Waesche,
The Two Doc Birelys advertising: Sash, doors, blinds, six Cassell) both first and second
cousins simultaneously, and each
balusters & balustrades, newel
by “My Father’s Son” posts, handrails, wooden mantles, father’s nieces and nephews also his
moldings, brackets, circular work,
first-cousins once-removed! The final
washboards, casings, and four of the Waesche brood were born
A graduate of the Photos Courtesy of John Kinnaird’s ThurmontImages.com all manufactured building to the number 19 address, U.S.C.G.
University of Maryland materials. “We are prepared Rear Admiral Russell Randolph
Medical School, Morris to build at home or abroad, Waesche first in 1886, and Clinton
Alleman Birely set up from foundation to top Foreman Waesche last in 1895. The
a medical practice in complete, and finish in the 1900s approaching, L.R. Waesche
Thurmont in 1894. best workmanline manner, again became involved in the
Birely’s lengthy career HOUSES, on the most Catoctin Iron Works and left North
also recognized him as the reasonable terms.” At least Church Street for Catoctin Manor.
longtime physician to the forty-six homes were erected Waesche retained the town residence
Western Maryland Railway before 1883. until the family instead returned
Company and Emmitsburg’s Born Catharine Cassell, from the Furnace District to their
St. Joseph College. Morris Leonard Waesche’s mother newly acquired Park Lane property,
A. and wife Bertha Bushey was sister to Abraham Cassell, Dr. Birely purchasing their previous
Birely purchased the home at this time. The
family home of Leonard R. home’s exterior would
Waesche at 19 North Church always remain unaltered,
Street in April of 1907. excepting the exchange
Waesche owned the home, a of a window for a second
few doors away and across front entrance leading to
the street from his mother’s 19 N. Church Street: The Birely Home, c. 1874, as it Dr. Birely’s office.
residence, for twenty-five stood in 1962 prior to expansion of the Guardian Hose The same day Dr.
Company (also seen in the frame).
years. Still echoed today in Birely purchased his
local stories and accounts, home, he, too, acquired
“Doc Birely” was the name of Church). Cassell had his home North Church’s opposite
health and medicine in our northern constructed by brothers Leonard structure, numbered
region between 1894 and 1961, the R. and James T. Waesche, who 16, from Colonel John
association split between Morris A. built many homes in town during R. Rouzer. A masonry
(in practice fifty-three years), and this time. Most indicative that the form of an early duplex,
later his son, Morris F. Birely, who Birely’s home was built by the pair this structure was
followed his father as a practitioner is the distinctive aforementioned made of two nearly
beginning in 1944. front porch. symmetrical “L”-shaped
The Birely home, built in 1874 Formed of concrete, the units mirrored together,
by Charles E. Cassell, stood between square paneled pedestals, shallow 16 N. Church Street: The home and practice of the Junior Dr. Morris forming an overall
St. John’s Lutheran Church and spandrel arches, and circular Birely and family, built by John R. Rouzer in 1890. “T”-shaped footprint
the former Town Hall, which also columns fit between, in addition divided vertically into
acted as an engine house for the to stylized cast balustrades with Charles E. Cassell’s father. L. R. two units between the adjacent front
Fire Company. The all-brick home urn-planter terminations, make this Waesche and wife, Mary Martha doorways. A rear-sloping shed roof
featured a wrap-around porch porch the archetype of what became “Molly” Foreman, were conveyed allows this surviving building to
overlooking the street, a semi-circular a Waesche signature, with variations the Cassell home in 1882 by Charles appear from the front as flat-roofed
window framed by a turn-gable later displayed on Waesche projects (Leonard’s first cousin) and wife. and three stories with an elaborate
above the front balcony, and a like their 108 Park Lane and Matters further entwined, this entablature, crowning the edifice
turreted bay-window exaggerating 11 S. Carroll Street (soon to be conveyance likewise transferred to deter rainwater necessitated by
its southwest corner (seldom visible demolished) homes, as well as the Mary M. Waesche the home of her the roof’s eave-less design. The
in photographs, but occasionally 1913 remodel of the former High sister, Julia C. Foreman Cassell; left portion of Rouzer’s building
appearing in the background of School, once located between 210 the sisters having each married contained son Morris F. Birely’s
views taken of neighboring St. John’s and 302 E. Main Street, operated by one of the cousins. This double- — Continued on page 43 —
