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340 Congress Avenue, Anderson-Jones
House, site, rebuilt 1987

This property encompassed four lots of land that ran from the southeast corner of Strawberry Lane and Congress Avenue to Market Street. The Anderson-Jones House was a small one at the corner of Strawberry Lane and Congress Avenue. All of the property was owned by John G. McCullough of Baltimore in 1882, when he sold it to Emma Grace McCullough, also of Baltimore.
James O. Ellis was born in Havre de Grace in August 1890 and resided at this address when he was inducted in WWI as a Private in August 1918. He served in the 153rd Depot Brigade and was honorably discharged on December 13, 1918. He is listed on the Roll of Honor at Tydings Park under Colored Troops.
In 1927, Emma McCullough sold the house and all of the land to Clara Stansbury who later married Clarence Anderson and became Clara Elizabeth Anderson (1894-1984). It is assumed that the Andersons lived here. After Clara Anderson died in 1984 her Estate sold the house and land to Robert and Susan Preston in 1986.
The Prestons constructed a brick building on the part of the land that is at the corner of Congress Avenue and Market Street in 1987 and it is now known as 340 Congress Avenue. The Prestons opened “Preston’s Stationery” and Robert Preston also sold IBM products. Presumably they demolished the home known as 318 Congress Avenue, which became a parking lot for the building.
In 1998, the Prestons sold the building to the Biddle-Snyder Limited Partnership of Port Deposit, which owned it for the next 20 years. Since 2018, this has been home to the Evangelistic Church of Deliverance.
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