There are two sections to this frame house; the front part is original and was built in 1856, while the rear addition was added in the 1930s-1940s. The front original section ends at the kitchen, where there probably was a fireplace that was used for cooking; the chimney in the back room would have been outside the original section.

John Blaney (1791-1866) and his wife, Rebecca Blaney, probably built this home and in 1856 they sold it to their daughter, Louisa Blaney Kenly. John Blaney is also known in Havre de Grace for having been the third Concord Point Lighthouse Keeper from 1841 to 1844, after John O’Neill and Thomas Courtney. He served again as Keeper from 1849 to 1853. The Blaneys also built the original house that stood next door at 201 South Union Avenue (that used to be 466-468 Bourbon Street).

Louisa Blaney Kenly’s husband, Daniel Kenly (1815-1881), served as a Havre de Grace Commissioner in 1852. They and some of their five children lived in this home from 1856 to 1932. Louisa Kenly died in 1897, several years after her husband. One of their children, Edward C. Kenly, who worked on the railroad was killed by a train in 1909, and another son, John Blaney Kenly, worked as a foreman at DuBois Saw Mills.

By 1932 an ownership challenge went before the Circuit Court and a Trustee awarded it to Edward Larkin Kenly, who was living in Wilmington, Delaware. Together with the Administrator of his mother’s estate, Kenly sold the property to Jesse C. Carr. It may have been Jesse Carr who built the addition to the rear of the house and made it into two apartments. At his death in 1944, Jesse Carr bequeathed the home to his daughter, Edith R. Davis, and after her death to her children. When she died in 1979, she had two living children, Rosalie O. Forst and Dorothy Logwood. A couple of years later, they sold the house to Robert L. Slawson.

The home had a few more owners after that and was returned to being a single family home. In 1999, Grace E. Lynch sold it to David P. Tramontana and Courtney L. Craig. David Tramontana was a music teacher in Havre de Grace High School and his wife, Courtney, was the daughter of David Craig, then Mayor of Havre de Grace. In 2002, the Tramontanas opened their home to the Annual Candlelight Tour, having done a lot of work in renovating the home and adding a half bath downstairs. They repainted most of the original woodwork and refurbished the windows as well as the hardwood floors. Off the kitchen was the family room and sliding doors led to a rear deck. Upstairs there was a “lighthouse room” with its motif reflected in the pale blue and white trim and a bathroom with a similar theme. There was a guest room and a nursery, as well as a master bedroom with off-white and floral accents.

The Tramontanas sold the home in 2004 to Angela Prandini and Maria Wolfe. During that time, Angela served on the Havre de Grace Tree Commission. Ten years later, in 2014, Angela and Maria sold this home to Kevin and Lorine L. Condon. The Condons opened their home to the 2019 Annual Candlelight Tour when visitors could see their remodeled kitchen and back room. They added that they love and enjoy their view of the Spencer-Silver Mansion across the street, where they spent their honeymoon 25 years earlier.

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Built 1935. 2180 sq ft, 2 stories no basement, 2.5 baths, 2375 sq ft lot.