WWI records indicate that Hospital Apprentice First Class Charles J. Foley (1895-1957) was living at 428 Union Avenue when he enlisted in the Naval Reserve December 14, 1917. He served as part of the Students’ Army Training Corps at the University of Maryland in the Naval Medical Unit beginning October 1, 1918. He was listed as inactive in December 1918 and returned to Havre de Grace where he became a prominent physician. Dr. Charles Foley Sr. is remembered for delivering many of the city’s now elderly residents as babies. Dr. Foley also began and oversaw the operation of the Foley Pharmacy on St. John Street in the early 1900s.

The white frame house originally on this lot was part of a large parcel of land bought by Martin P. Foley (1867-1932) at a public sale in 1907. After he died at The Graw Racetrack of a heart attack, his seven children sold the home and property in 1932 to their brother, Dr. Charles J. Foley, Sr. (referenced above) and his wife, Mildred Heuisler Foley (1897-1969). They built the stately all brick Georgian house that is now 400 South Union Avenue. After the deaths of Dr. Foley Sr. and Mildred, the whole property passed to their son, Dr. Charles J. Foley Jr. (1927-2006) and his wife, Neta Galinski Foley. Dr. Foley Junior also was an accomplished physician.

This original white frame house was divided into apartments in which Foley family members lived for several years. Jeanne Jackson Dell’Acqua (who then lived across the Avenue) recalls playing with Kay Foley in the large overgrown lot prior to the new red brick house being built in 1949. Kay lived in the original Foley home here with her parents, William T. Foley, Sr. (1906-1977) and Phyllis Foley, and brothers, Bill, Jim, Jerry, and Dave Foley. In 1964, however, William T. Foley, Sr. and Phyllis sold this part of the Foley property to Harford Memorial Hospital; the hospital demolished the original Foley home and created this parking lot.