New house that replaced the fire destroyed double structure that preceded it. This structure was constructed in 2016. (Photo submitted, Dec 2016, by Wayne Taylor)
Contributed by rkohler3 on 12/27/16 - Image Year: 2016
This house replaces a double house that sat on the south side of the 600 block of Main Street.
(Following refers to the fire destroyed double house that preceded the house pictured to the right.)
While he operated the Port Royal Silk Mill, Harold and Martha (Crozier) Hartman lived in the east side of this double house. In September 1941 they moved when they purchased the property at the southeast corner of Milford and Fourth Streets.
While the Hartmans lived in one half of the house, the other half was occupied by William A. and Grace (Walters) Rice. Eventually the Rices moved to a house on the southeast corner of Tuscarora and Second Street.
During the early 1950s the Glen Kepner (east side) and Bernal Taylor (west side) families lived in this house. After Glen and Bernal purchased the Old Port Store, the Taylor family moved into the house beside the store and the Kepners eventually built a home on the extension of Milford Street.
A 1950 History of Port Royal says that this house contained some timbers from the original Lutheran Church that once existed at Church Hill (Turbett Township). (That church was torn down after the property was sold to Noah Hertzler. Thus, this house must have been built sometime after the church was torn down.)
This house appears as a single house on the Sanborn Insurance Map of 1889 but as a double house by 1911.
This building was destroyed by fire on October 15, 2010 and replaced by a single family home. (See other photo.)
Contributed by rkohler3 on 12/27/16 - Image Year: 2016
Rear view of the 605 Main Street house that was constructed in 2016. (Photo submitted, Dec 2016, by Wayne Taylor)
Contributed by rkohler3 on 9/15/09 - Image Year: 2009
This is how 605 and 607 Main Street appeared during the Spring of 2009 when it was listed to Leslie Curley.
Contributed by rkohler3 on 12/5/11 - Image Year: 2010
The house ablaze on October 15, 2010. The TIMES newspaper said that five fire companies responded to the scene. It says that one adult and two children were displaced by the fire.
Contributed by rkohler3 on 10/29/10 - Image Year: 2011
This photo shows the house about ten months after the fire. (Photo submitted by Jonathan M. Wert, Jr.)
Contributed by ray on 5/20/14 - Image Year: 2007
MAIN STREET: an aerial view of the western end of Main Street between Sixth and Eighth Streets as represented by Google Earth.
Contributed by rkohler3 on 11/11/09 - Image Year: 1889
This map shows the 600 block of Main (Middle) Street as it appeared in 1889. This house is represented as #4 on the map. (Note that this is represented as a single house on this map but will become a double house by 1911.) (Building #3 will be shown on the 1904 and 1911 maps but not on the 1928 map. While Building #2 is found through 1928, but it does not exist today.)
Contributed by rkohler3 on 11/11/09 - Image Year: 1904
This map shows the 600 block of Main (Middle) Street as it appeared in 1904. This house is represented as #4 on the map. (Note that this is represented as a single house on this map but will become a double house by 1911.) (Building #3 will be shown on the 1904 and 1911 maps but not on the 1928 map. While Building #2 is found through 1928, but it does not exist today.)
Contributed by rkohler3 on 11/11/09 - Image Year: 1911
This map shows the 600 block of Main (Middle) Street as it appeared in 1911. This house is represented as #4 on the map. (Note that this was represented as a single house on previous maps but is now represented as a double house.) (Building #3, now represented as a Butcher Shop, will not be shown after this map. While Building #2 is found through 1928, but it does not exist today.)
Contributed by rkohler3 on 11/11/09 - Image Year: 1928
This map shows the 600 block of Main (Middle) Street as it appeared in 1928. This house is represented as #4 on the map. (While Building #2 is found through 1928, but it does not exist today.)
