The Maryland Historical Trust estimates the “built” date of this house as 1850s and, as mentioned above, a dwelling appears in this location on the 1858 Herrick Map. This Colonial-style property on a parcel of land on the northwest corner of South Washington and Revolution Streets was owned by John T. and Louisa Moore in the 1860s. The Moores sold a portion of the land to Patrick and Ellen Hollihan (sometimes spelled Hollahan) in 1868. They sold this part of the land to William Hollahan (1842-1890) and his wife Julia Hollahan (1840-1886).

Julia died at 46 years of age and four years later William died at 48 years in 1890, leaving six children, to whom this property descended. However, one of them, Thomas, died in 1900; Joanna died in 1911; Michael died in 1914; Patrick died in 1921 leaving his estate to his widow Rachel; Rachel deeded her rights to Katherine J. Hollahan (1877-1950) in 1922; and Mary Hollahan Fahey also deeded her rights to Katherine in 1922. Katherine, the youngest child, was only 9 years old when her mother died and 13 years old when her father died. It is not known why the parents and then several children died at a relatively young age—the deaths were spread out over several years so it doesn’t appear to have been from an outbreak of some contagious disease.

It does not appear that Katherine ever married and no record of her having a child was found. She did, however, continue to own this property, as well as the double home just north of this, until 1949 when she sold all of it, at the age of 72, to Omer L. Carson and G. Arnold Pfaffenbach, two local attorneys who were in the real estate business. Katherine died the following year and was buried in Mount Erin Cemetery in the Hollahan plot.

This building was purchased by Rea A. and Ada M. Montville in 1952. Rea was best known in Havre de Grace for having begun the Montville Taxi Company in the 1940s (now owned by another local family). They had a taxi stand at 500 North Union Avenue in the 1950s and 1960s and Rea served on the City Council in the early 1970s. The Montvilles sold the home to George F. Miller and Ruth Miller (1924-2017) in 1957. After the 1965 death of George, ownership stayed within the Miller family until it was passed to Ruth’s daughter, Dawn J. Miller, in 1981. Dawn married Duane K. Dawson and in 1993 deeded the property to Duane Dawson, reserving a life estate for herself in the property. In 1997, it appears that the Dawsons refinanced the home. In 2002, however, substitute trustees sold the home at a public sale to Cecil F. Hill, Jr., a local realtor.

One year later, Ronald Hirschy and his late wife, Wanda Lee Hirschy, bought this property which became offices for their property management business, Mallard Point Associates. They completely renovated the building with central air-conditioning, replacement windows, vinyl siding, and architectural shingles. In addition they paved the rear garden with asphalt and turned it into a five-car parking lot running west on Revolution Street.

Mallard Point Associates had their offices here until 2018 when they sold this corner property to Charles and Bonnie Ward in 2018.

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Built 1930. Commercial/residential. 1456 sq ft, 2 stories, 2 baths, 2300 sq ft lot.