John Lamm (1820-1882) and Caroline Weaver Lamm (1825-1892) of Port Deposit bought this property in 1881 and built what became known as a hotel and tavern called the Lamm House. It ran 78 feet west on the south side of Warren Street from Freedom Alley. When John died the following year, the hotel was taken over by one of his two sons, Charles A. Lamm (1862-1905). Charles married Mary Eldora “Mollie” Phillips (1868-1945) in 1891 at Mollie’s home in Philadelphia and they both then ran the hotel in the 1890s. The Clerk of the Court issued a liquor license in 1894 to Charles, along with a couple of other establishments. Charles and Mollie had two girls: Esther Lamm (1894-1977) who later married William Melvin (1870-1946); the other was Lena Lamm Moore (1892-1969) who married Leo M. Moore, Sr. (1880-1946), publisher of The Democratic Ledger newspaper for several years.

When Charles Lamm died in 1905 an ownership dispute between Charles’ wife, Mollie, and her brother-in-law John Lamm, Jr. was resolved by a court trustee in 1907 by selling the Lamm House to Mollie Lamm, who continued to run the hotel.

In 1908, the widowed Mollie Lamm married Conrad H. Kalb (1868-1931), who had been brought to the U.S. from Hessen, Germany, as a child in 1880 by the Lamm family. Together they ran the Lamm House and advertised it in The Aegis newspaper in 1916. They sold the hotel in 1921 to Captain Hiram Stanley and his wife, Tennie Stanley, and built a home for themselves at 668 Ontario Street. Captain Stanley had just the year before been granted a Coca-Cola franchise for Harford and Cecil Counties with Fred M. Quinn. And in 1922 Stanley was one of the officers of the Susquehanna Exhibition Company, along with Emanuel Newmeyer. In 1923, the Stanleys sold this property to William E. Veasey (1883-1958) and Essa Veasey, his wife.

William and Essa Veasey were experienced in running hotels, having owned Veasey’s Hotel in 1916 at 200 North Washington Street for a short time. And William Veasey had served as Mayor of Havre de Grace from 1921-1923. They successfully ran and lived in the Lamm House, while he ran an insurance business, until 1950 when Essa died. When William died intestate in 1958 the property descended to his niece and grandniece who sold the hotel to Charles J. Mitchell (1919-2004) and Mildred, his wife. Charles was a U.S. Army veteran of WWII.

This building was converted at some point from what was described as a “hotel and tavern” to the five adjoined two-story townhouses we see on the property today. That exact date or time is not known, but it is known that 10 years after buying this property the Mitchells bought a home at 900 South Adams Street and this was a rental property for them. They sold this property in 1971 to the well-known locals, Cecil F. Hill, Sr. and Kathryn S. Hill, who are in the real estate business. The Hills sold this in 2014 to Eriter, LLC, of Pennsylvania, who manage or own several other rental properties in Havre de Grace.

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Built 1900. 7,400 sq ft, multiple residence, 5,382 sq ft lot.