#414: Having acquired this property from Henry H. Faulkner in 1880, J. Thompson Frieze and his wife, Elizabeth, sold it to Dr. Alexander Stewart Koser, a University of Pennsylvania graduate, in 1884 to use as his home and dental office. In an 1885 Havre de Grace newspaper, The Electric Light, Dr. Koser advertised, “Gas administered to extract teeth.” The “dentist” office is shown on the 1885 Sanborn Insurance Map. Dr. Koser later sold the property to William N. Coale (1866-1956) and it passed to Mae V. Smith and then Abraham and Marion Solomons in 1928.

In 1930, a Court Trustee sold this to Harry T. Borrell (1881-1953) and his wife, Margaret E. Borrell. They opened and ran it as “Borrell’s Pool Hall” for which they distributed complimentary tokens (collector pieces today). In 1956, the Pool Hall then passed to their son, Jerome Borrell (1917-1997), who had served as a captain in the Army during WWII, and his wife, Gertrude Borrell. Three years later, they sold it to Stanley F. Rodia, Sr. (who had his barber shop in #410 and grew up in #412) and his wife, Evelyn. They converted the building into the much remembered “Tim’s Tavern,” and had Tim Schrader run it for many years. Brenda Baker remembers it as a “place for friends to gather,” where they had a whole wall with framed photos of horses and jockeys from The Graw Racetrack and a tin ceiling above it. And Pat Brogan’s mother-in-law was the cook. Julia Sheets remembers that the Havre de Grace Yacht Club sailors always went here after Thursday night races in the 1970s.

In 2000, Stanley and Evelyn Rodia sold the property to William C. and Sherri L. Correll who sold it in 2005 to Coakley’s Pub. Coakley’s named this part of their business as the “Susquehanna Station,” a carry-out bar. Since then, this part of their business has also been completely redeveloped and redesigned and in 2019 it is a further extension of Coakley’s Pub and called “Coakley’s Pub Next Door.”

#416: There used to be an open lot of land on the north side of #414 behind a wall on which an underwater mural had been painted, concealing the empty lot (a house formerly there was demolished several years ago). Coakley’s demolished the wall and developed the land as an outdoor seating and performance area for Coakley’s Pub, which backs up to the “Cornerstone,” a retail liquor store of Coakley’s bar business that opened in July 2018 at 415 North Union Avenue.

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Built 1930. 3556 sq ft commercial retail store, 9722 sq ft lot.