The previous building here was the third and last in which Matthew James Cameron (1826-1914) had his Livery Stable located; the first two buildings, one on the corner of North Union Avenue and Franklin Street and the other on Pearl Street, had been torn down. Cameron moved to this Franklin and Stokes Street location in 1892 when he bought the property from Julia A. Bayard of Baltimore. She had two brothers, John and Thomas Bayard, who were in business with Andrew Lyon in A. & G.T. Lyon & Company on St. John Street. Cameron painted the stables white, with a broad green stripe near the roof.

Four years after Cameron opened here, Oliver R. “O.R.” Currier (1863-1936), who was raised by Cameron after his own father was shot dead, took over running the business from him. O.R.’s father, Matthew Currier, was shot in 1865 in his boat on the Susquehanna River, most likely by bounty hunters, leaving a widow, Adeliza “Addie” Currier and five children (three years later, Addie married Lewis D. Pusey). O.R. served on the City Council in the early 1900s and some of his family members lived in the Currier House on Market Street. In 1907, Cameron formally deeded the property to O.R.

The Livery Stables provided horse and carriage services to the town, for which Cameron needed an annual “Carting License,” before the days of the automobile. The main floor was used for carriages, sleighs and buggies, and a large wagon; the second floor contained stalls for horses and a tack room; and the third floor loft provided storage for hay, with a long ramp connecting the floors. As a boy, James “Jim” Alexander Currier (1886-1959), O.R.'s eldest son, worked here in his father’s livery stable taking care of 36 horses. He later became the Havre de Grace Postmaster.

In 1918, as automobiles became more popular, the horses, wagons and trappings were sold and the building was converted to a Sinclair service station and storage facility by 1920. Joe Pollace remembers pumping gas there when he was 12 years old. O.R. Currier operated the business until he died intestate in 1936, leaving Emma, his widow, and eight children. Another one of his sons, Oliver Matthew Currier (1896-1991), took over running it. When Emma died in 1951, however, the family got together and deeded the property and business to Oliver M. and Grace J. Currier, his wife. Their grandson remembers running up and down the horse ramp when he was young. They continued the business until 1978 when Oliver, at the age of 82, sold it.

The former Livery was purchased by Francis Lamar Mergler (1901-1983) who had been an electrician at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. It may have been at that time that the former Livery buildings (that used to be white) were painted a brick red color. He then formed F. Lamar Mergler & Son, his own electrical contracting business, which was taken over by his son, F. Lamar Mergler, Jr. in 1984, when his father died. The company operated from the former Livery buildings here until 2012 when they sold the aged property.

The new owner in 2012 was Lewis Fillinger who, to the dismay of those interested in historic preservation, demolished the colorful and historical Livery. Fillinger then constructed a new building with two large garages attached on this corner lot in 2014.

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Built 2014. 2728 sq ft, residential, 2 stories, 3.5 baths, 2 attached garages, 4500 sq ft lot.