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Krise Hammaker (twenty-six years
T h e P r e s e n t P a s t — Continued from page 28 her husband’s junior) had instigated
an altercation when she “sprinkled
plans of Philadelphia Hotel builders Oscar and Margaret Coblentz with water” an automobile parked Sylvester, between Woodland and
G.W. & H.D. Hewitt. The Hammaker sold their home on December 31, along East Street’s curb beside the Clarke Avenues, where a stylized
and Coblentz residences seem more 1917, moving with their five children Hammaker home. When approached carving reading “Windy Woods,
closely attuned to the blueprints of to Baltimore. Mr. Coblentz was by the vehicles owner, a woman Ernest P. Hammaker” still stands.
George F. Barber. Barber’s homes on the State Education Board. He living adjacent the Hammakers, on The retro-rancher, embellished with
are present in all fifty states, and was also a dedicated member of the the opposite North Church and East slabs of marble and granite, caused
in countries such as Japan and the Hood College Board of Trustees, Street corner, was also “sprinkled the sale of Ernest’s Uncle’s home,
Philippines. Barber’s first catalog, a seat his son, Edward Coblentz, with water” and hair “pulled from which was then owned by (among
released just before 1900, contained and daughter, Katharine Crook, her head” during the ensuing row. others) the Dr. Richard D. Culler
fifty-nine plans in the Queen Ann sustained, leading Hood College Mrs. Hammaker was to be charged family of Frederick, and later, U.S.
style. “Many Barber houses survive to commemorate the family’s with assault and battery and use Army veterinarians Jerry and Nancy
today—there’s probably at least one in contributions with the Coffman of improper language on a public Jaax, with whom the address gained
a neighborhood near you.” (Massey, Chapel memorial organ and pews, highway. That evening and following notoriety as a momentary setting in
Maxwell) given in Oscar Coblentz’s name day, Peter Hammaker was allegedly Richard Preston’s 1995 best-selling
in the 1950s, and the Coblentz very distraught by the interaction book, The Hot Zone (chronicles the
No definite claim is laid that Memorial Hall dormitory that was between the women and so retreated first Ebola outbreaks and the virus’s
either of these homes is indeed of dedicated in 1965. The Coblentzs are to his garage. Whispers of a more- unsettling entry into a Virginia
Barber creation, but suggests an also recognized as “the first family to than-neighborly relationship between Monkey House).
educated point-of-reference. The graduate three generations of Hood Hammaker and his unmarried,
primary differences between the College students.” water-sprayed, 102 N. Church Street The Hammaker House, as well
Hammaker and Coblentz homes neighbor, were not unheard in town. as Peter’s former residence and
are the variations at the front porch Headlines on August 28, 1925, Memorial Company facility, is nicely
(Coblentz’s reversed, allowing a read “P.N. Hammaker Takes Own Hammaker’s business was sold preserved between the Thurmont
large solarium), gable versus hip- Life While in Garage – No reason to brother B. Frank Hammaker’s square and Western Maryland
dormered roof terminations, and, assigned for act of well-known two sons, Peter’s nephews: Ernest Railroad overpass. On Rockwell
most noticeably, a greater footprint man.” Found unconscious inside his P. and Frank E. Hammaker. Ernest Terrace, Oscar B. Coblentz’s house
that deepens the Coblentz home by vehicle, Dr. Birely was unsuccessful and wife, Edith, purchased his Uncle had prospered handsomely as
at least one room-depth overall—all in reviving Peter Hammaker. Peter’s house for $7,500 to use as well and, although divided into
differences difficult to identify when Contrary to the papers, neighbors their residence. Come 1956, Ernest apartments for several years, the
the homes are not viewed side by Unger and Birely were likely aware P. and Edith Hammaker completed home again serves as a single-family
side. Overall, the finishes, window that the day before Hammaker’s construction of their modern, final residence.
placements, grill patterns, and brick passing had not been a quiet one, home on land acquired by A.C. Note: For more pictures, follow
used unite the pair, their identical as police warrants had been issued Northern Frederick County’s history
corner-bay towers their most against Hammaker’s wife. Peter’s on Instagram at remembering_
revealing relation. second wife, forty-one-year-old Mae Frederick.
Krise Hammaker (twenty-six years
T h e P r e s e n t P a s t — Continued from page 28 her husband’s junior) had instigated
an altercation when she “sprinkled
plans of Philadelphia Hotel builders Oscar and Margaret Coblentz with water” an automobile parked Sylvester, between Woodland and
G.W. & H.D. Hewitt. The Hammaker sold their home on December 31, along East Street’s curb beside the Clarke Avenues, where a stylized
and Coblentz residences seem more 1917, moving with their five children Hammaker home. When approached carving reading “Windy Woods,
closely attuned to the blueprints of to Baltimore. Mr. Coblentz was by the vehicles owner, a woman Ernest P. Hammaker” still stands.
George F. Barber. Barber’s homes on the State Education Board. He living adjacent the Hammakers, on The retro-rancher, embellished with
are present in all fifty states, and was also a dedicated member of the the opposite North Church and East slabs of marble and granite, caused
in countries such as Japan and the Hood College Board of Trustees, Street corner, was also “sprinkled the sale of Ernest’s Uncle’s home,
Philippines. Barber’s first catalog, a seat his son, Edward Coblentz, with water” and hair “pulled from which was then owned by (among
released just before 1900, contained and daughter, Katharine Crook, her head” during the ensuing row. others) the Dr. Richard D. Culler
fifty-nine plans in the Queen Ann sustained, leading Hood College Mrs. Hammaker was to be charged family of Frederick, and later, U.S.
style. “Many Barber houses survive to commemorate the family’s with assault and battery and use Army veterinarians Jerry and Nancy
today—there’s probably at least one in contributions with the Coffman of improper language on a public Jaax, with whom the address gained
a neighborhood near you.” (Massey, Chapel memorial organ and pews, highway. That evening and following notoriety as a momentary setting in
Maxwell) given in Oscar Coblentz’s name day, Peter Hammaker was allegedly Richard Preston’s 1995 best-selling
in the 1950s, and the Coblentz very distraught by the interaction book, The Hot Zone (chronicles the
No definite claim is laid that Memorial Hall dormitory that was between the women and so retreated first Ebola outbreaks and the virus’s
either of these homes is indeed of dedicated in 1965. The Coblentzs are to his garage. Whispers of a more- unsettling entry into a Virginia
Barber creation, but suggests an also recognized as “the first family to than-neighborly relationship between Monkey House).
educated point-of-reference. The graduate three generations of Hood Hammaker and his unmarried,
primary differences between the College students.” water-sprayed, 102 N. Church Street The Hammaker House, as well
Hammaker and Coblentz homes neighbor, were not unheard in town. as Peter’s former residence and
are the variations at the front porch Headlines on August 28, 1925, Memorial Company facility, is nicely
(Coblentz’s reversed, allowing a read “P.N. Hammaker Takes Own Hammaker’s business was sold preserved between the Thurmont
large solarium), gable versus hip- Life While in Garage – No reason to brother B. Frank Hammaker’s square and Western Maryland
dormered roof terminations, and, assigned for act of well-known two sons, Peter’s nephews: Ernest Railroad overpass. On Rockwell
most noticeably, a greater footprint man.” Found unconscious inside his P. and Frank E. Hammaker. Ernest Terrace, Oscar B. Coblentz’s house
that deepens the Coblentz home by vehicle, Dr. Birely was unsuccessful and wife, Edith, purchased his Uncle had prospered handsomely as
at least one room-depth overall—all in reviving Peter Hammaker. Peter’s house for $7,500 to use as well and, although divided into
differences difficult to identify when Contrary to the papers, neighbors their residence. Come 1956, Ernest apartments for several years, the
the homes are not viewed side by Unger and Birely were likely aware P. and Edith Hammaker completed home again serves as a single-family
side. Overall, the finishes, window that the day before Hammaker’s construction of their modern, final residence.
placements, grill patterns, and brick passing had not been a quiet one, home on land acquired by A.C. Note: For more pictures, follow
used unite the pair, their identical as police warrants had been issued Northern Frederick County’s history
corner-bay towers their most against Hammaker’s wife. Peter’s on Instagram at remembering_
revealing relation. second wife, forty-one-year-old Mae Frederick.
