This corner lot is now part of 711 Pennington Avenue, on which the new Havre de Grace City Hall was built in 1992.

In 1905 the Delmar Lumber Company was here making planing mill products and in 1912 announced a warehouse enlargement that would increase their employees. But the 1910 Sanborn Insurance Map shows the Kramer Lumber Company here, with the premises enclosed by a picket fence. Edwin E. Pearson worked for them selling lumber and doing building management, while he and his wife lived at 327 South Union Avenue. The William Melvin Lumber Mill was here in 1921 and advertised in 1925 that they also sold doors, blinds, coal, and cement. The Clark Lumber Company is shown here on the 1930 Sanborn Map and, after the death of John N. Clark, his wife, Mary, owned and managed the Clark Lumber Company. The Chesapeake Lumber Company was located here in the 1950s-1960s, with Richard Grubb’s grandfather working in the office and Ed Schaefer in the mill. They provided builders’ and masons’ supplies and hardware, as well as Vita-Var paint and tools.

In the 1970s, Jean Mears (1928-2013) worked here at the Livezey Lumber Company, for which Cal Ripkin, Sr. also worked in sales. They sold hardware and building materials, and Vita Var paints, with the motto, “If we don’t have it, we’ll get it.” Robert Mitchell remembers working with Cal Senior in the summer of 1956. Livezey’s is also where Jean met her husband, David N. Mears, in 1956. Over time, this was the location of five different lumber yards before the 1992 construction of City Hall at 711 Pennington Avenue.