This land was sold to Isaac Hecht and Elizabeth Hecht (of the Hecht Hotel on Green Street) in 1892 by a court trustee pursuant to a property dispute of July 1890 between George Taylor Lyon (1816-1891) and William K. Rockefus. The widowed Elizabeth Hecht sold it in 1920 to Edward C. and Minnie L. Wells who had married in the Havre de Grace Methodist Church in 1897, five years after the death of Minnie’s father, Charles Gerting. Edward and Minnie Wells most likely built the original home here that fronted on the west side of St. John Street and extended back to Lodge Lane.

They opened the Del-Mar Poultry Farms shop here in 1920, where they sold fresh killed poultry and eggs (and more than likely lived on the second floor). They sold the property in 1933 to Thomas Curen (1886-1967) and Elsie Curen who continued to run the poultry shop where people could also order Thanksgiving turkeys. In 1951 Harry and Yetta Stein took over the business but soon moved it to 108 Market Street. While they had lived for a short time above the store here, they moved to Bloomsbury Avenue next. They later retired in 1998. Gayle Stein Shackleford and Marilyn Stein Blake are their daughters.

This building was owned by Otto Freed (1900-1961) and Ida B. Freed (1904-1967) from 1949 until 1967. They opened the Rose Furniture store here at first but later moved that store to 119-123 Market Street. After that this space was a Sears Catalog Store in the 1960s and 1970s, where Fred Packard worked his first job with “Karen Ward Bird's sweet Mom.” Otto and Ida Freed were known in the 1940s for owning the Havre de Grace Print & Publishing Company that sold the Lafayette Hotel property (501 St. John Street) to the Joseph L. Davis Post No. 47 American Legion of Havre de Grace.

It is not known when the one-story storefront façade was added to this building—but it was there in the 1950s when Rose Furniture even had an awning outside the shop. Later owners were Charles R. Green, Sr. and Jane Mae Green who bought the property in 1976 and accumulated a lot of antique furniture, which presumably they were selling. About nine years later, Charles sold the building to Jane Green and left town. The store has not been open for many years and in a conversation with Jane a few years ago she said that the store has “5,000 square feet of space filled with furniture that runs all the way back to Lodge Lane.”

The building is now configured so that the living space is on the second floor of the house, which is accessed by steps up to it in the rear of the building at 312 Lodge Lane. The storefront on St. John Street fronts 44 feet on its westerly side, which is boarded up, and extends back in irregular width with 25 feet fronting on Lodge Lane.

In October 2018, Jane Green deeded this property to Cheryl A. Morrison and Eric C. Green who live elsewhere.

County Records
Built 1900. 3496 sq feet, 3094 sq ft lot, use is retail store.