Friday, August 11
Through research I was able to find three relavent addresses in Ashland today and check them out. Pictures will be posted later.
1) Barney and Mary Hoppenyan's house at the corner of 12th and Main (Main used to be Second Street). There is a house there, but from the looks of it, I think it is probably not the original. It is exactly two blocks away from my dad's old house at the corner of Eleventh Avenue and Third Street.
2) The site of the first Funeral Home (Smith and Hoppenyan) which is kiddie corner from Our Lady of the Lake (St. Agnes) Catholic Church. That makes sense as S & H bought to the old building that the church used. It is a parking lot for a discount store (Dollars and Cents which used to be a Piggly Wiggly supermarket).
3) The final site was the Bardon Building on Main (formerly second) which was the site of a bank and the Bardon & Kellog Grain company. Edward Hoppenyan (Barney's son) was a clerk and later a driver for them. According to a local history book, the hall on the second floor was sometimes used for Mass prior to the construction of a more permanent church.
On a side note, I discovered that Edward was one of the founding officers of the local Knights of Columbus council that still exists today.
I went to Madeline Island and had dinner. It was an absolutely gorgeous day.
1) Barney and Mary Hoppenyan's house at the corner of 12th and Main (Main used to be Second Street). There is a house there, but from the looks of it, I think it is probably not the original. It is exactly two blocks away from my dad's old house at the corner of Eleventh Avenue and Third Street.
2) The site of the first Funeral Home (Smith and Hoppenyan) which is kiddie corner from Our Lady of the Lake (St. Agnes) Catholic Church. That makes sense as S & H bought to the old building that the church used. It is a parking lot for a discount store (Dollars and Cents which used to be a Piggly Wiggly supermarket).
3) The final site was the Bardon Building on Main (formerly second) which was the site of a bank and the Bardon & Kellog Grain company. Edward Hoppenyan (Barney's son) was a clerk and later a driver for them. According to a local history book, the hall on the second floor was sometimes used for Mass prior to the construction of a more permanent church.
On a side note, I discovered that Edward was one of the founding officers of the local Knights of Columbus council that still exists today.
I went to Madeline Island and had dinner. It was an absolutely gorgeous day.
posted by Matthew J. McKinley | 6:50 PM
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