{"id":2315,"date":"2018-03-15T01:11:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T01:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/?p=2315"},"modified":"2018-03-28T00:13:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T00:13:04","slug":"what-was-that-building-on-lovettsvilles-locust-street-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/what-was-that-building-on-lovettsvilles-locust-street-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"What Was That Building On Lovettsville’s Locust Street? (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Edward Spannaus<\/strong>
\n<\/em>Lovettsville Historical Society Board Member and Researcher<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

The greyish, barn-like building on South Locust Street, Lovettsville, Virginia, recently taken down, is believed by most local historians to have once been the Nicewarner blacksmith shop, which ceased operation in 1934. It has also been known the \u201cwheelwright shop.\u201d\u00a0 It has not been used for anything except storage for many decades.Lovettsville historian Glenn Grove, who died last year at the age of 93, wrote in his paper \u201cHidden Monuments of Lovettsville Past\u201d about the Lovettsville Motor Company, a Chevrolet dealership located on South Loudoun Street.<\/p>\n

“However, to the rear of this building [the dealership] and still standing is the old barn type building that housed the Nicewarner blacksmith shop.\u00a0 It was operated by Mr. Henry Nicewarner, assisted by his son Lester at times, and later by Alex Overton.\u00a0 It was an interesting place for a young boy to spend his time.\u00a0 It was also a good place to burn bare feet, but a chance to crank the bellows made that risk worth taking.\u00a0 When the elder Nicewarner died in 1934 the shop was closed and a sale held to dispose of tools.”<\/p>\n

The building itself was not real old by Lovettsville standards,\u00a0judging from its construction; it was probably built in the 1890s or the early 1900s.<\/p>\n

The entire triangular block bounded by Pennsylvania Avenue, South Loudoun Street, and Locust Street, in the mid-19th century consisted of only two parcels: A smaller rectangular parcel shown as \u201cJohn F. Smith\u201d on the 1875 town map at the corner of Pennsylvania and Loudoun \u2013 that became the marble or tombstone shop \u2013 and a second parcel extending from Pennsylvania Avenue to the point at the intersection of Loudoun and Locust.<\/p>\n

Around 1869-1870 a smaller triangular parcel at the point was acquired by the Lovettsville School District, which owned it until selling it 1905 to Charles F. Schumaker.\u00a0 On this site was the first Lovettsville \u201ccolored\u201d school building, which has since been converted into a dwelling house.\u00a0 The old stone building just north of the schoolhouse building was the town jail, according to local legend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Lester Nicewarner acquired the old school lot and a surrounding parcel in the 1920s.\u00a0 After Henry Nicewarner\u2019s death it went to Ridgely Albaugh and his wife Edna George Albaugh in 1935;\u00a0 Ridgely and Paul Albaugh operated the auto dealership on the Loudoun Street side of the property.\u00a0 In 1953 ownership was transferred to Ridgely\u2019s father-in-law S. Henry George, and then it descended to Eliza George Myers (another daughter of S. Henry George) and her husband Robert A. Myers \u2013 both educators in local public schools.\u00a0 It is now owned by Tim Keena, a nephew of Eliza Myers, who is planning to build two more houses on that land, along with two dozen or more houses on the other side of Locust Street over to Frye Court.<\/div>\n
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