The core of this classic house is more than 100 years old and the land on which it was built was once owned by The Havre Iron Company. Joseph and John P. Whittaker built two iron furnaces at the foot of Bourbon in the mid 1840s and owned the Bourbon Street land up to Washington Street. They furnished metal used to make guns during the Mexican-American and Civil Wars but ceased operations in 1866.

The Havre Iron Company sold this lot in 1889 to Oliver T. Rogers (who was City Attorney at the time) and Joseph W. Chamberlaine (who became City Attorney in 1911). They sold this property to Thomas E. and Maggie J. Keane of Philadelphia who owned it for about 30 years before the property was sold at public auction by the Harford County Treasurer to William E. Thompson. Ellen Dorman was the next owner who passed it on to her son when she died in 1934, and after his death in 1943 the property was sold again to John Franklin Sutor (1875-1948) and Edith Tyson Sutor. But John Sutor died suddenly in 1948 so Edith added her grandson, Richard Elmer Reasin, to the deed.

After 1963 it was then owned for several years by some of the extended Sutor/Falvey/Williams family members until 1985 when George F. Hahn and Guillermo Gonzales purchased the property. It is thought to have become a rental property from then until 2003 when it was bought by A & M Properties (owned by Allen Fair and Mary Lynn Snyder).

A & M Properties undertook an extensive renovation that went on for almost two years. During that period, a shed extension on the back of the house, which had suffered fire damage, was completely removed. A termite infestation was also discovered and remedied, and all damaged structural elements were replaced, along with the roof and siding. An entirely new section of the house, running parallel to Market Street was added to the original building during renovation. This consisted of a kitchen, which opened into the family room, and a new master bedroom suite and bath. In addition, a porch was built, which ran around the house fronting on both Bourbon and Market Streets. The house was purchased by Mary Lynn Snyder in May 2007 where she lived with her husband, Carey Snyder, and opened it to the Annual Candlelight Tour.

This historic property was sold in October 2018 to Deborah Cook-Goldman, whose first husband, Ira Goldman (1950-2012), had century-old historic roots in the city. A story is that Ira Goldman’s parents were Rene and Wallace “Wally” Goldman whose family (Abraham and Rose Schreter) had a tie factory in New York State (the Schreter Tie Company) but wished for a better life. The Schreters visited a fortune teller who told them to move from New York and cross some bridges and the town they got to was where they should live. And that’s how they got to Havre de Grace. They lived at 102 South Union Avenue, which in 1916 became the home of Dr. James H. Bay (and later demolished). Ira Goldman’s grandmother, Lillian, remembered that after they settled they had a cow, which she had to walk to the city pump so it could get water, and this embarrassed her a great deal. They also had chickens that they had to feed. They later moved the tie company to Baltimore.

Trustee Deborah Cook-Goldman continues to own this house.

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Built 2004. 3068 sq ft, 2.5 stories, 2.5 baths, attached garage, 4760 sq ft lot.