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Forman Hawboldt House

A black and white photo of the two-storey jewelry store with two shop windows and a door in the middle, close to the road. The top floor has two smaller windows. To the right on a rise, set back from the road, with a wire fence by the street, a three storey shingled house with steps leading up to the front door, dormer windows on the right of the front steps and a veranda along the left front of the house. The house sports gingerbread trim, many windows and a steeply pitched roof.

The Forman Hawboldt house on Queen Street was hit by lightning during a storm and caught fire. With no way to fight the fire the house continued to burn for three days until they were able to put it out leaving the family homeless.