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The Present Past Courtesy Photo
A House Divided
by “My Father’s Son” — Part II —
The house at 601 East Main Street. Upon purchase that same
Street in Thurmont is much year, Edgar and Marguerite Tregoe
more primitive in style than its secured the Annex as a separate
neighboring Aurora Cottage. A entity to be forgotten as a fragment
simple square by perimeter, 601 of the neighbor it once coupled.
is a 2-1/2 story, typical three-bay The Tregoes extended their lot to
façade, differing from others in Apples Church Road by obtaining
Thurmont of the same description more of Donaldson’s land. They
by its forward-facing, steeply-raked sold the whole to Ross and Nanna
front gable, allowing space for a Firor in 1935. Divided into four
largely habitable attic beneath the lots, the Firors sold most of Tregoes
high-pointing rafters. One hundred Donaldson purchase between The Cochran Family home on Thurmont’s East Main Street, absent the Annex, once afixed at the
home’s right side is presented today in nearly the original vision of Sallie K. Boyce.
and eighteen years old, this address 1952 and 1968, returning the
is often known as “The Campbell Annex’s acreage to near its original
House,” recognizing two scores of conveyance. of eighteen years until the deed was depict various color schemes using
ownership by the surname. Removal Over a year prior to Waters’ purchased by the Cochran family— colored pencils matched to paint
of the columned wrap-around porch, sale of the Annex, November 1918 Aurora’s longest owners (this month swatches. The exterior grandeur of
asphalt-shingle siding, full-sized announced World War I’s conclusion marking thirty years of residence). the Cochran’s home continues inside
attic front-gable windows, and the and spread peace across the globe Nine acres added by the Waters’ where a fireplace opposes the front
replacement of the sash exchanged quickly cloaked by suffrage even between Aurora’s current lot and door; a handsome stairway travels
for the front door, the “Campbell unseen through warfare. The the Western Maryland Railroad up the rightward wall; and a fine,
place” is promptly exposed as American Medical Association were sold by the Derns in 1940 baby-grand piano floats among floor
Aurora Cottage’s lost Annex. summarized our country’s morale (later becoming the Cannon Shoe to ceiling windows. Throughout
Before proceeding, let’s resume best: “Medical science for four Company), and additional area lost their thirty years at Aurora, Jim’s
where Part I concluded in 1912 and one-half years devoted itself by Fraley’s 1945 purchase and swift vintage Triumph roadster has
with the Charles C. Waters family to putting men on the firing line construction of a trending bungalow- fittingly posed out front in the
leaving their Fredericktown-house at and keeping them there. Now it style home upon the Aurora lot for circular drive; Debbie haunted the
116 E. Church Street, returning to must turn with its whole might to daughter Mabel and son-in-law Earle porch as a witch on many an All
Thurmont’s 513 E. Main, this time combating the greatest enemy of Townsend. The Townsend’s created Hallows Eve; and children, Wes and
as their private home. Five years all—infectious disease.” 511 East Main Street, carved from Wendy, have been seen coming and
prior, Waters and business partner, At age eighteen, the Waters’ the Aurora parcel, an abnormal going from Catoctin High, on college
Charles Cassell, closed and sold the only son, James, became ill with allocation, shrinking to around breaks, and now as adults continuing
Aurora Cottage boarding house. Just the “Spanish-Flu,” the wickedest only fifteen feet to dodge Aurora to frequent their childhood home.
as this endeavor ended, so would all epidemic in recorded history. James Cottage’s existing carriage house Aurora Cottage, as a whole
others involving the pair on June 2, was a prime host for the ailment, before reopening its bounds. and a house divided, has boarded
1907, when Charles E. Cassell died which spiked the death-by-illness rate The Cochrans obtained Aurora thousands of guests, hosted splendid
two months after the home’s sale. of those aged fifteen to thirty-four by Cottage from William and Patricia soirees, and been the backdrop to
Cassell’s absence invested Waters 20 times that of the previous year. Green, parents of familiar Frederick the best and least-desirable memories
further into the legal arena where Over 675,000 American lives were News Post photographer, Bill Green. of changing residents. Sallie Boyce’s
his reputation as a learned estate lost, James Waters’ among them. The Green family occupied the home 513 E. Main St. home stood
attorney had grown since passing the His son departed, Charles from 1967 until 1986. Bill’s paternal complete only a relative moment
Frederick County Bar in 1898. Waters amended his Will to donate grandparents were houseguests of before the Annex was added to its
The Waters’ second arrival Aurora Cottage to the Order of the family and occupied a “suite” of original form. Residing for the last
to Aurora Cottage brought the the Holy Cross, instructing his sorts arranged in the first-floor area, 105 years 100 feet apart only a brief
departure of the Annex. By “present home and grounds” be where the Annex earlier joined. This thirteen years united the pair prior
purchasing a bordering sliver of land designated the “James Somerset space was repurposed by the Greens, to the Annex’s separation to 601 E.
from owner Blanche Darr Donaldson Waters Memorial for religious and with its own bath and access to a Main Street. New ownership and
of Philadelphia allowed Waters to charitable purposes.” Per the Will, section of the front porch receiving recent improvements leave many
shift the Annex he and Cassell had Rosa Waters received life estate at glass-enclosure. “It is told that Mr. hopeful that the Annex will return
constructed approximately 100 feet Aurora Cottage after Charles’ death Green gave a large ledger, found in from prolonged neglect and periods
12° SE to become its own address— in 1926, the occasion of her death or the home’s attic, containing Aurora of vacancy (during which one man
the structure’s displacement angled remarriage to execute her husband’s Cottage’s Inn records to a Thurmont reserved squatter’s rights for a
to accommodate a large shed still final testament. Unexpectedly, Rosa resident for historic keeping. The time) to sustain its status as joint-
sited behind the Annex today. As contested the Will and County Case whereabouts of this ledger 49 years shareholder of Aurora Cottage’s
no staircase existed in Aurora’s #11557, Rosa Waters v. The Order later is a mystery but remains an colorful history. Fortunate that
addition, Waters outfitted an of the Holy Cross, dishonored the artifact Mrs. Cochran would greatly both remain, neither home can
L-shaped stair against the Annex’s late Mr. Waters’ wishes. Rosa’s legal like the opportunity to view.” be more fairly addressed “Aurora
severed side incorporated into the victory protected her home from White and trimmed with green Cottage” than the other although
stacked passages once linking the institutionalization and reestablished at the time of purchase, the most the San Franciscan-colors and
guest wing to Aurora. The retro- entitlement by Mrs. Waters, allowing apparent change made by Jim tin-fashioned, faux terra-cotta-tile
fitted house was rented until 1919 sale to occur four years later. and Debbie Cochran is the colors roof of the Cochran’s 513 residence
when Waters would add twenty- The Dern, Fraley, and Green accentuating the home. Aurora’s more familiarly claims the moniker,
five feet of his own holdings to the families succeeded Rosa Waters, palette was realized after Debbie ushering in day’s first light like a
Annex, creating a satisfactory lot each conveying the property to the sketched the home and colored shimmer of magic on the foothills of
fronting fifty-five feet on E. Main next after an average inhabitance in photocopies of her drawing to the mountain.
The Present Past Courtesy Photo
A House Divided
by “My Father’s Son” — Part II —
The house at 601 East Main Street. Upon purchase that same
Street in Thurmont is much year, Edgar and Marguerite Tregoe
more primitive in style than its secured the Annex as a separate
neighboring Aurora Cottage. A entity to be forgotten as a fragment
simple square by perimeter, 601 of the neighbor it once coupled.
is a 2-1/2 story, typical three-bay The Tregoes extended their lot to
façade, differing from others in Apples Church Road by obtaining
Thurmont of the same description more of Donaldson’s land. They
by its forward-facing, steeply-raked sold the whole to Ross and Nanna
front gable, allowing space for a Firor in 1935. Divided into four
largely habitable attic beneath the lots, the Firors sold most of Tregoes
high-pointing rafters. One hundred Donaldson purchase between The Cochran Family home on Thurmont’s East Main Street, absent the Annex, once afixed at the
home’s right side is presented today in nearly the original vision of Sallie K. Boyce.
and eighteen years old, this address 1952 and 1968, returning the
is often known as “The Campbell Annex’s acreage to near its original
House,” recognizing two scores of conveyance. of eighteen years until the deed was depict various color schemes using
ownership by the surname. Removal Over a year prior to Waters’ purchased by the Cochran family— colored pencils matched to paint
of the columned wrap-around porch, sale of the Annex, November 1918 Aurora’s longest owners (this month swatches. The exterior grandeur of
asphalt-shingle siding, full-sized announced World War I’s conclusion marking thirty years of residence). the Cochran’s home continues inside
attic front-gable windows, and the and spread peace across the globe Nine acres added by the Waters’ where a fireplace opposes the front
replacement of the sash exchanged quickly cloaked by suffrage even between Aurora’s current lot and door; a handsome stairway travels
for the front door, the “Campbell unseen through warfare. The the Western Maryland Railroad up the rightward wall; and a fine,
place” is promptly exposed as American Medical Association were sold by the Derns in 1940 baby-grand piano floats among floor
Aurora Cottage’s lost Annex. summarized our country’s morale (later becoming the Cannon Shoe to ceiling windows. Throughout
Before proceeding, let’s resume best: “Medical science for four Company), and additional area lost their thirty years at Aurora, Jim’s
where Part I concluded in 1912 and one-half years devoted itself by Fraley’s 1945 purchase and swift vintage Triumph roadster has
with the Charles C. Waters family to putting men on the firing line construction of a trending bungalow- fittingly posed out front in the
leaving their Fredericktown-house at and keeping them there. Now it style home upon the Aurora lot for circular drive; Debbie haunted the
116 E. Church Street, returning to must turn with its whole might to daughter Mabel and son-in-law Earle porch as a witch on many an All
Thurmont’s 513 E. Main, this time combating the greatest enemy of Townsend. The Townsend’s created Hallows Eve; and children, Wes and
as their private home. Five years all—infectious disease.” 511 East Main Street, carved from Wendy, have been seen coming and
prior, Waters and business partner, At age eighteen, the Waters’ the Aurora parcel, an abnormal going from Catoctin High, on college
Charles Cassell, closed and sold the only son, James, became ill with allocation, shrinking to around breaks, and now as adults continuing
Aurora Cottage boarding house. Just the “Spanish-Flu,” the wickedest only fifteen feet to dodge Aurora to frequent their childhood home.
as this endeavor ended, so would all epidemic in recorded history. James Cottage’s existing carriage house Aurora Cottage, as a whole
others involving the pair on June 2, was a prime host for the ailment, before reopening its bounds. and a house divided, has boarded
1907, when Charles E. Cassell died which spiked the death-by-illness rate The Cochrans obtained Aurora thousands of guests, hosted splendid
two months after the home’s sale. of those aged fifteen to thirty-four by Cottage from William and Patricia soirees, and been the backdrop to
Cassell’s absence invested Waters 20 times that of the previous year. Green, parents of familiar Frederick the best and least-desirable memories
further into the legal arena where Over 675,000 American lives were News Post photographer, Bill Green. of changing residents. Sallie Boyce’s
his reputation as a learned estate lost, James Waters’ among them. The Green family occupied the home 513 E. Main St. home stood
attorney had grown since passing the His son departed, Charles from 1967 until 1986. Bill’s paternal complete only a relative moment
Frederick County Bar in 1898. Waters amended his Will to donate grandparents were houseguests of before the Annex was added to its
The Waters’ second arrival Aurora Cottage to the Order of the family and occupied a “suite” of original form. Residing for the last
to Aurora Cottage brought the the Holy Cross, instructing his sorts arranged in the first-floor area, 105 years 100 feet apart only a brief
departure of the Annex. By “present home and grounds” be where the Annex earlier joined. This thirteen years united the pair prior
purchasing a bordering sliver of land designated the “James Somerset space was repurposed by the Greens, to the Annex’s separation to 601 E.
from owner Blanche Darr Donaldson Waters Memorial for religious and with its own bath and access to a Main Street. New ownership and
of Philadelphia allowed Waters to charitable purposes.” Per the Will, section of the front porch receiving recent improvements leave many
shift the Annex he and Cassell had Rosa Waters received life estate at glass-enclosure. “It is told that Mr. hopeful that the Annex will return
constructed approximately 100 feet Aurora Cottage after Charles’ death Green gave a large ledger, found in from prolonged neglect and periods
12° SE to become its own address— in 1926, the occasion of her death or the home’s attic, containing Aurora of vacancy (during which one man
the structure’s displacement angled remarriage to execute her husband’s Cottage’s Inn records to a Thurmont reserved squatter’s rights for a
to accommodate a large shed still final testament. Unexpectedly, Rosa resident for historic keeping. The time) to sustain its status as joint-
sited behind the Annex today. As contested the Will and County Case whereabouts of this ledger 49 years shareholder of Aurora Cottage’s
no staircase existed in Aurora’s #11557, Rosa Waters v. The Order later is a mystery but remains an colorful history. Fortunate that
addition, Waters outfitted an of the Holy Cross, dishonored the artifact Mrs. Cochran would greatly both remain, neither home can
L-shaped stair against the Annex’s late Mr. Waters’ wishes. Rosa’s legal like the opportunity to view.” be more fairly addressed “Aurora
severed side incorporated into the victory protected her home from White and trimmed with green Cottage” than the other although
stacked passages once linking the institutionalization and reestablished at the time of purchase, the most the San Franciscan-colors and
guest wing to Aurora. The retro- entitlement by Mrs. Waters, allowing apparent change made by Jim tin-fashioned, faux terra-cotta-tile
fitted house was rented until 1919 sale to occur four years later. and Debbie Cochran is the colors roof of the Cochran’s 513 residence
when Waters would add twenty- The Dern, Fraley, and Green accentuating the home. Aurora’s more familiarly claims the moniker,
five feet of his own holdings to the families succeeded Rosa Waters, palette was realized after Debbie ushering in day’s first light like a
Annex, creating a satisfactory lot each conveying the property to the sketched the home and colored shimmer of magic on the foothills of
fronting fifty-five feet on E. Main next after an average inhabitance in photocopies of her drawing to the mountain.
