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Hawboldt jewelry store, and residence

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.

Chester Municipal Heritage Society

The Forman Hawboldt jewelry store, next to it the Hawboldt residence that burned down in 1935. Behind the house was the building that was used as the first foundry. The jewelry store was later moved to the corner of Pleasant and Central Streets in the village and used as a retail store and residence.