The building was first sold in 1900 by Robert K. Vanneman (1853-1912) and Peter Leslie Hopper (1856-1917), both of whom served as Mayors in the late-nineteenth century. It was then bought by George Walter Garner who, with his wife, Georgianna, lived here for about 10 years.

J. Archer and Emma Fletcher bought the home from the Garners in 1910, two years after receiving a monetary settlement from the City and the Saricks Hotel for injuries sustained by their infant (Mary E. Fletcher) when some negligently stacked beer kegs fell on her outside the Saricks Hotel at Otsego and Water Streets. The injuries included having to have her leg amputated.

The recovered and adult Mary E. Fletcher sold the home in 1923 to Arthur P.G. Asher (1891-1942) and his wife, Ida Mae Asher, who were at that time running a grocery and meat market on Washington Street. The Ashers, however, sold the property one year later to John T. and Nellie M. Armstrong.

A couple more owners followed in the 1920s until Howard L. Coulter bought the home in 1934. He and his wife, Beulah Watters Coulter, raised their daughter and three sons here and, after Beulah passed away, Howard continued to live here with family members. Through his life, Howard Coulter lived by a waterman family legacy that dated back to a great-grandfather who had been a “market gunner” on the Susquehanna Flats. He instilled in his children a love of the outdoors by taking them fishing and waterfowl hunting on the Chesapeake Bay with decoys that he carved himself. Howard became good friends with Harry Moore and Dick Hipple, who lived nearby. He also was supportive of the formation of the Decoy Museum but passed away the same year the Museum opened. One son, Dale Coulter, became an avid decoy collector.

Having been owned during the 1980s and 1990s by Ronald and Deborah Baker, and possibly being a rental property, it was bought by William Stansbury in 2016. Stansbury spent the next several months completely renovating this single family home, adding decks to the rear, and installing a new kitchen. In 2018 Edourd and Catherine Sonnenschein became the new owners of this home in a very historical area of the city.

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Built 1930. 1680 sq ft, 2 baths, 2 stories with basement, 2700 sq ft lot.