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The Present Past appointment as city Civil Engineer. to be, the prestigious residential
Town House, In his lifetime, Coblentz would addition to Frederick, developed
Country House also work for the Frederick &
on the former land-holdings of
Middletown, and WF&G Railways, Elihu Hall Rockwell. The Rockwell
by “My Father’s Son” act as Superintendant of Frederick Street, extending W. Third St.
Peter, age twenty-nine, and bride County Schools, and be admitted westward, was laid out in 1905 after
Around eight o’clock on August to the Frederick County Bar after
27, 1925, Doctor Morris A. Birely Ida, twenty-eight, were wed nearly studying Law at the University of demolition of the Rockwell residence
obstructing its path. The Coblentz
was ushered by Lester Unger thirty years before Ida passed away Maryland, while simultaneously home was begun in 1907 on Lot 2
of heart failure in 1916. Together, tending his professional positions.
across the street from his home to Peter and Ida endured the infant August 1908 shifted Coblentz’s and half of adjoining Lot 4.
the Thurmont house of Peter N.
Hammaker at 26 North Church deaths of their only two children and attentions to a new law practice, The Hammaker and Coblentz
homes exemplify the American-
Street. Unger, Victorian style,
employee and Photo Courtesy of Kinnairdimages.com Courtesy Photo emerging after
backyard- the Civil War.
neighbor of
Hammaker, Residential
Architecture
had recognized authors, James
the sound of
an automobile C. Massey
and Shirley
motor Maxwell,
running inside
Hammaker’s describe this
style as one that
locked garage “popped up
and rushed to
the doctor’s everywhere…
in cities,
home. When suburbs, and
the pair
returned, Birely rural areas.”
Features of these
forced open homes’ Queen
the garage and
recovered sixty- Anne sub-
categorization
seven-year-old include
Hammaker, The Thurmont Hammaker House at 26 N. Church Street, built by Peter The Frederick City Coblentz House on Rockwell Terrace, near Hood College, large, usually
whom Unger Hammaker and wife Ida in 1908. the Coblentz’s residence from 1910-1917. curvilinear
had rightfully wraparound
assumed inside.
Born in 1858, Peter N. constructed the stately “Hammaker formed with Charles C. Waters after verandas, balanced facades, turreted
House” at the summit of North the death of Waters’ former affiliate, bay windows, many gables, and
Hammaker came to Thurmont in Church Street that the couple moved Chas. E. Cassell. sporadic decoratively-shaped
1874, where he entered the marble
and granite memorial business to in 1908 (the new residence less Coblentz and wife, Margaret windows, usually maintained on even
the simpler of Queen Anne constructs.
with brother, B. Frank Hammaker. than a dozen rods away from their Elizabeth Pontius (a student Many notable architects were
former home, 106 N. Church St., from Cochranton, Pennsylvania,
Peter bought the entire Hammaker sited with the Hammaker Bros. stone attending The Women’s College of drafting these desirable homes at the
Bros. Memorial Company from his
brother in 1878, when B. Frank operations). Frederick—renamed Hood College turn of the century. These Frederick
in 1912—whose first cousin, Joseph County dwellings, however, appear
relocated to Libertytown to start Two years later, in 1910, the less decorated than San Francisco’s
Hammaker House’s near-duplicate Henry Apple, was the College’s
again in the same trade. Nine years was completed in Frederick City President), wed in 1903, and later Samuel & Joseph Newsom designs,
later, Peter Hammaker wed Ida
at 200 Rockwell Terrace; the purchased the first lot on Rockwell less sprawling than Boston’s Peabody
Miller of Lewistown on the morning comparable town residence was & Stearn’s, less “cottage” than Bruce
of February 17, 1887. That same Terrace. Removed one block Price’s New York clientele’s resort
commissioned by Middletown from the Women’s College’s 28-
afternoon, elder brother B. Frank native Oscar B. Coblentz, who acre campus (donated in 1898), homes, and less palatial than the home
Hammaker wed Jennie Ensor.
came to Frederick upon his 1904 Rockwell Terrace was, and continues … C o n t i n u e d o n p a g e 2 9
The Present Past appointment as city Civil Engineer. to be, the prestigious residential
Town House, In his lifetime, Coblentz would addition to Frederick, developed
Country House also work for the Frederick &
on the former land-holdings of
Middletown, and WF&G Railways, Elihu Hall Rockwell. The Rockwell
by “My Father’s Son” act as Superintendant of Frederick Street, extending W. Third St.
Peter, age twenty-nine, and bride County Schools, and be admitted westward, was laid out in 1905 after
Around eight o’clock on August to the Frederick County Bar after
27, 1925, Doctor Morris A. Birely Ida, twenty-eight, were wed nearly studying Law at the University of demolition of the Rockwell residence
obstructing its path. The Coblentz
was ushered by Lester Unger thirty years before Ida passed away Maryland, while simultaneously home was begun in 1907 on Lot 2
of heart failure in 1916. Together, tending his professional positions.
across the street from his home to Peter and Ida endured the infant August 1908 shifted Coblentz’s and half of adjoining Lot 4.
the Thurmont house of Peter N.
Hammaker at 26 North Church deaths of their only two children and attentions to a new law practice, The Hammaker and Coblentz
homes exemplify the American-
Street. Unger, Victorian style,
employee and Photo Courtesy of Kinnairdimages.com Courtesy Photo emerging after
backyard- the Civil War.
neighbor of
Hammaker, Residential
Architecture
had recognized authors, James
the sound of
an automobile C. Massey
and Shirley
motor Maxwell,
running inside
Hammaker’s describe this
style as one that
locked garage “popped up
and rushed to
the doctor’s everywhere…
in cities,
home. When suburbs, and
the pair
returned, Birely rural areas.”
Features of these
forced open homes’ Queen
the garage and
recovered sixty- Anne sub-
categorization
seven-year-old include
Hammaker, The Thurmont Hammaker House at 26 N. Church Street, built by Peter The Frederick City Coblentz House on Rockwell Terrace, near Hood College, large, usually
whom Unger Hammaker and wife Ida in 1908. the Coblentz’s residence from 1910-1917. curvilinear
had rightfully wraparound
assumed inside.
Born in 1858, Peter N. constructed the stately “Hammaker formed with Charles C. Waters after verandas, balanced facades, turreted
House” at the summit of North the death of Waters’ former affiliate, bay windows, many gables, and
Hammaker came to Thurmont in Church Street that the couple moved Chas. E. Cassell. sporadic decoratively-shaped
1874, where he entered the marble
and granite memorial business to in 1908 (the new residence less Coblentz and wife, Margaret windows, usually maintained on even
the simpler of Queen Anne constructs.
with brother, B. Frank Hammaker. than a dozen rods away from their Elizabeth Pontius (a student Many notable architects were
former home, 106 N. Church St., from Cochranton, Pennsylvania,
Peter bought the entire Hammaker sited with the Hammaker Bros. stone attending The Women’s College of drafting these desirable homes at the
Bros. Memorial Company from his
brother in 1878, when B. Frank operations). Frederick—renamed Hood College turn of the century. These Frederick
in 1912—whose first cousin, Joseph County dwellings, however, appear
relocated to Libertytown to start Two years later, in 1910, the less decorated than San Francisco’s
Hammaker House’s near-duplicate Henry Apple, was the College’s
again in the same trade. Nine years was completed in Frederick City President), wed in 1903, and later Samuel & Joseph Newsom designs,
later, Peter Hammaker wed Ida
at 200 Rockwell Terrace; the purchased the first lot on Rockwell less sprawling than Boston’s Peabody
Miller of Lewistown on the morning comparable town residence was & Stearn’s, less “cottage” than Bruce
of February 17, 1887. That same Terrace. Removed one block Price’s New York clientele’s resort
commissioned by Middletown from the Women’s College’s 28-
afternoon, elder brother B. Frank native Oscar B. Coblentz, who acre campus (donated in 1898), homes, and less palatial than the home
Hammaker wed Jennie Ensor.
came to Frederick upon his 1904 Rockwell Terrace was, and continues … C o n t i n u e d o n p a g e 2 9
