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The Present Past Photo by “My Father’s Son”
by “My Father’s Son” Town House,
Country House
On October 17, 1928, Dr. James to the kitchen, accessed through The classic home of Thurmont physicians, E.C. Kefauver, L. M. Irving, and J.K. Gray, on
King Gray and wife purchased the foyer by a passage beneath the the corner of East Main Street and Summit Avenue.
the Thurmont home at 502 East turned portion of the main staircase,
Main Street from Levin M. and is the dining room featuring a full- at Shelburne in 1772 for the parson residence in the District of Columbia
Cecilia Irving who had relocated height bay window on the home’s and his family to reside. After to attend Western High School where
from Chicago Illinois in 1923 when east façade complimented by a the Revolutionary War, Virginia, he graduated in 1914 allowing him
Irving, also a Doctor, purchased cantilevered bay of similar construct and other new states, banned to continue and graduate from the
the medical practice of Dr. Elmer on the western elevation. these traditionally-British church- University of Virginia.
Clay Kefauver. E. C. Kefauver was governed properties and required
one of three Kefauver children Elmer Kefauver upheld his that all parishes be sold to profit Aged 31 years, James Gray
from the Middletown Valley private practice in the Thurmont the poor and needy. Shelburne wed Dalene Rogers from Delton,
west of Fredericktowne. Out of Masonic Building at 12 East Main Parish resisted disestablishment for Virginia in November of 1926 and
132 students, Elmer was one of Street for thirty-two years before nearly thirty years and did not reach in 1928 moved to Thurmont where
twenty-four seniors selected in being appointed the Frederick City private ownership until the 1840s. he bought “a nice, large home at
1890 to begin clinical studies at the and County Health Officer, a post Interrupted by the Revolution, the 502 East Main Street which he
University Hospital in Baltimore he began on January 1, 1924. Days Shelburne Glebe-house was left owned for the rest of his life” as
where his medical career would before, on December 27, 1923, incomplete and stood as a shell for described by B.N. Phillips’s The
begin. Elmer’s brother Noah Kefauver sold his practice to Dr. several decades explaining how the Book of Kings, The King Family’s
Kefauver was a Frederick dentist Levin M. Irving, Kefauver’s nine colonial exterior came to be paired Contribution to the History of
and his sister Julia Olive Kefauver, year-old home was sold to Irving as with a mismatched mid-19th century Bristol, Tennessee/ Virginia. Though
Mrs. Lloyd Clayton Culler; wife of well. The Irvings’ time in Thurmont Greek revival trimmed interior. the Grays never sold the home, they
the popular Frederick City Mayor lasted only five years, welcoming Completion of Shelburne Glebe did briefly depart our Maryland
which Culler Lake in Baker Park James K. and M. Dalene Gray by was likely executed by the Aldridge municipality during the Great
was dedicated. 1930. family who bought the property Depression. Between the years of
after its church dissolution sixty 1932 and 1934 James Gray accepted
Elmer Kefauver and wife Mary James King Gray was born to years prior to the Grays inhabitance. a more fiscally stable position at
Atlee purchased Lot 3 of “Firor’s Robert Hartsell Gray and Macijah Southwestern State Hospital in
Addition to Thurmont” on the Watkins King in 1895 at the At Shelburne Glebe, James Marion, Virginia, until his return to
corner of East Main Street and couple’s “Highland Cottage” built King Gray, the three-times great- his office above the Thurmont Post
Summit Avenue in 1914 where on Robert Grays father’s Virginia grandson of the famous southern Office in the Masonic building.
they built the white frame house farm at the meeting of the middle Reverend James King, was raised and
remaining since. The house, a “four- and south branches of the Holston homeschooled until 1912. James then Beginning with a daughter born
square” layout on the first floor is River. Financially able, the family moved to his Uncle John B. King’s in 1931, Dr. and Mrs. Gray had
entered at the left where a foyer and moved to Shelburne Glebe, a large three children. Nancy Ann, of
“L”-shaped stair welcome guests. country estate outside of Leesburg Baltimore, attended Towson State
From the entry a right-hand opening in 1901. Here, Robert (called College and got her Masters at
accesses a window-filled living “Robin” by his wife Macijah who the University of Maryland. James
room placed in front of the kitchen went by “Watty”) farmed, and King, Jr. of Kensington, Maryland,
located in the rear, right “square” raised and trained horses. Shelburne was born in 1934 and graduated
with another stairway climbing Parish, named for the British Earl of from Shenandoah College. James
west to east between the two rooms. Shelburne, was a colonial property Jr. retired from Pan Am Airlines
The top of this narrow, sudden, built in the custom of the Anglican and was then associated with
secondary service-stair reaches the Church where a large estate was Mercedes Benz in Bethesda. Lastly,
second floor in close-proximity to used to support a congregation, or born 1941, was Sarah Watkins
the front stair termination leading “parish”. This parish, like others, of York, Pennsylvania, who wed
down to the front door. Adjacent was to be complete with a manor Hagop Tateosian at College Park,
or “glebe-house” which was begun Maryland, where she graduated
college. The Gray’s were also
caregivers to Dr. Gray’s Aunt,
Margaret Elizabeth King, his mother
Watty’s sister. Mrs. King came to
live at her nephew’s 502 East Main
Street address in 1934 where he had
arranged an apartment for her in
The Present Past Photo by “My Father’s Son”
by “My Father’s Son” Town House,
Country House
On October 17, 1928, Dr. James to the kitchen, accessed through The classic home of Thurmont physicians, E.C. Kefauver, L. M. Irving, and J.K. Gray, on
King Gray and wife purchased the foyer by a passage beneath the the corner of East Main Street and Summit Avenue.
the Thurmont home at 502 East turned portion of the main staircase,
Main Street from Levin M. and is the dining room featuring a full- at Shelburne in 1772 for the parson residence in the District of Columbia
Cecilia Irving who had relocated height bay window on the home’s and his family to reside. After to attend Western High School where
from Chicago Illinois in 1923 when east façade complimented by a the Revolutionary War, Virginia, he graduated in 1914 allowing him
Irving, also a Doctor, purchased cantilevered bay of similar construct and other new states, banned to continue and graduate from the
the medical practice of Dr. Elmer on the western elevation. these traditionally-British church- University of Virginia.
Clay Kefauver. E. C. Kefauver was governed properties and required
one of three Kefauver children Elmer Kefauver upheld his that all parishes be sold to profit Aged 31 years, James Gray
from the Middletown Valley private practice in the Thurmont the poor and needy. Shelburne wed Dalene Rogers from Delton,
west of Fredericktowne. Out of Masonic Building at 12 East Main Parish resisted disestablishment for Virginia in November of 1926 and
132 students, Elmer was one of Street for thirty-two years before nearly thirty years and did not reach in 1928 moved to Thurmont where
twenty-four seniors selected in being appointed the Frederick City private ownership until the 1840s. he bought “a nice, large home at
1890 to begin clinical studies at the and County Health Officer, a post Interrupted by the Revolution, the 502 East Main Street which he
University Hospital in Baltimore he began on January 1, 1924. Days Shelburne Glebe-house was left owned for the rest of his life” as
where his medical career would before, on December 27, 1923, incomplete and stood as a shell for described by B.N. Phillips’s The
begin. Elmer’s brother Noah Kefauver sold his practice to Dr. several decades explaining how the Book of Kings, The King Family’s
Kefauver was a Frederick dentist Levin M. Irving, Kefauver’s nine colonial exterior came to be paired Contribution to the History of
and his sister Julia Olive Kefauver, year-old home was sold to Irving as with a mismatched mid-19th century Bristol, Tennessee/ Virginia. Though
Mrs. Lloyd Clayton Culler; wife of well. The Irvings’ time in Thurmont Greek revival trimmed interior. the Grays never sold the home, they
the popular Frederick City Mayor lasted only five years, welcoming Completion of Shelburne Glebe did briefly depart our Maryland
which Culler Lake in Baker Park James K. and M. Dalene Gray by was likely executed by the Aldridge municipality during the Great
was dedicated. 1930. family who bought the property Depression. Between the years of
after its church dissolution sixty 1932 and 1934 James Gray accepted
Elmer Kefauver and wife Mary James King Gray was born to years prior to the Grays inhabitance. a more fiscally stable position at
Atlee purchased Lot 3 of “Firor’s Robert Hartsell Gray and Macijah Southwestern State Hospital in
Addition to Thurmont” on the Watkins King in 1895 at the At Shelburne Glebe, James Marion, Virginia, until his return to
corner of East Main Street and couple’s “Highland Cottage” built King Gray, the three-times great- his office above the Thurmont Post
Summit Avenue in 1914 where on Robert Grays father’s Virginia grandson of the famous southern Office in the Masonic building.
they built the white frame house farm at the meeting of the middle Reverend James King, was raised and
remaining since. The house, a “four- and south branches of the Holston homeschooled until 1912. James then Beginning with a daughter born
square” layout on the first floor is River. Financially able, the family moved to his Uncle John B. King’s in 1931, Dr. and Mrs. Gray had
entered at the left where a foyer and moved to Shelburne Glebe, a large three children. Nancy Ann, of
“L”-shaped stair welcome guests. country estate outside of Leesburg Baltimore, attended Towson State
From the entry a right-hand opening in 1901. Here, Robert (called College and got her Masters at
accesses a window-filled living “Robin” by his wife Macijah who the University of Maryland. James
room placed in front of the kitchen went by “Watty”) farmed, and King, Jr. of Kensington, Maryland,
located in the rear, right “square” raised and trained horses. Shelburne was born in 1934 and graduated
with another stairway climbing Parish, named for the British Earl of from Shenandoah College. James
west to east between the two rooms. Shelburne, was a colonial property Jr. retired from Pan Am Airlines
The top of this narrow, sudden, built in the custom of the Anglican and was then associated with
secondary service-stair reaches the Church where a large estate was Mercedes Benz in Bethesda. Lastly,
second floor in close-proximity to used to support a congregation, or born 1941, was Sarah Watkins
the front stair termination leading “parish”. This parish, like others, of York, Pennsylvania, who wed
down to the front door. Adjacent was to be complete with a manor Hagop Tateosian at College Park,
or “glebe-house” which was begun Maryland, where she graduated
college. The Gray’s were also
caregivers to Dr. Gray’s Aunt,
Margaret Elizabeth King, his mother
Watty’s sister. Mrs. King came to
live at her nephew’s 502 East Main
Street address in 1934 where he had
arranged an apartment for her in
