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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST (Historic Sites Survey) var.d. MSA SE16-5 Image No: se16-5-0242 Enlarge and print image (33K) |
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, MARYLAND HISTORICAL TRUST (Historic Sites Survey) var.d. MSA SE16-5 Image No: se16-5-0242 Enlarge and print image (33K) |
| NFS Forai 10-900 (Rev. 11-90) OMB No. 10024-0018 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Continuation Sheet Section number _8_ Page 16 Daniel Salmon entered into the Somerset Heights venture not only with the intention of building his own home, but with the intention of speculating on the land for investment purposes.19 In 1902, while still at the Bureau of Animal Industry, Dr. Daniel Salmon sold his house to John William Stohlman, a Georgetown merchant who owned the Georgetown Stohlman Confectionary store at 1254 Wisconsin Avenue. John William Stohlman lived at 4728 Dorset Avenue with his wife and 10 children, three of whom were bom in the house, from 1902 until 1947. Mr. Stohlman served as the Town's fifth mayor, from 1919 until 1938. The Victorian interior of the Stohlman candy store was disassembled in 1950, then rebuilt and displayed in the Smithsonian Museum of American History. The store reputedly sold "the best ice cream in town." From 1947 to 1951, the Stohlmans rented out the house. In 1951, at the death of Annie Stohlman, the property descended to the Stohlman heirs, and in 1958, was sold out of Stohlman family hands. Since 1958, the property has had just three owners. The present owners purchased the property in 1998. 19 Further land record research on the nine unimproved lots owned by Salmon and later sold by him may indicate how financially successful the venture was. |