A Queen Anne style home was built in 1858 on this northeast corner of North Union Avenue and Green Street. It was purchased with a large lot of land in 1883 by Dr. Richard H. Smith (1848-1926) and his wife, Alice Hall Smith (1851-1933), where they lived with their daughter, Helen T. Smith. Dr. Smith began his 50-year medical practice in 1875 and served on the first Board of Directors of the Havre de Grace Hospital in 1915. (The Smiths also owned the home at 300 North Union Avenue from 1903 to 1945, when their daughter sold that home). After the deaths of both of them, their daughter, Helen T. Smith, continued living in this home until her death in 1957. Her executors sold this property to Bayou Realty Company (owned by Joseph D. Silverstein of Joseph’s Department Store), who divided the land, with this house on one part that they sold to Harry F. Bobst and Mildred M. Bobst in 1958. The remaining land was an open lot just north of this one.

Jonny Gessig Harvey said she went to school with Jules Bobst, who lived in the house in the early 1960s and his Mom was a beautician. She had a beauty parlor there called “Bea’s Pink Charm.” Marynell Maurice says she spent a lot of time in the house with her friend, Glenda Bobst. Glenda Bobst (now Glenda Schronick), confirms that it was their house and “Bea’s Pink Charm” was her Mom’s. Glenda says that the first customer every Saturday morning always brought a dozen donuts from Goll’s Bakery—and she always ran and got the chocolate iced one!

The Bobst family left the house around 1965 and the property was bought by Albert M. Newman and David Newman t/a City Pharmacy. This house was vacant for some time. Stan Rodia remembers that the house had a black wrought iron fence around it with arrow points on the posts and while the house was vacant a tree grew around the fence in one place. In 1973, the City Pharmacy building that the Newmans had built next door had a major fire and burned down.

After the fire, the Newmans rebuilt the pharmacy building (now known as The Office Centre at 309 North Union Avenue) and they demolished this house due to its deteriorated condition. The Newmans donated the fence to the City and Jay Narvell remembers that the front steps remained standing alone for a long time. The Newmans sold the empty lot in 1988 to Randall Steven Williams and Mary Elizabeth Brendle Williams. In 2007 they deeded it to 301 North Union, LLC, the current owner.

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6,604 sq ft lot.