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Top photo courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society
What we're looking at in the top photo is the business empire of Edward Sauter. This is the northwest corner of the intersection of State Road 51 and Ainsworth Road, just south of the Grand Trunk tracks. In the foreground is Ed's saloon, with living quarters upstairs, built in 1899. (I don't know if that guy standing in the door is Ed himself.) Immediately behind his saloon is his blacksmith shop (the brick building with the stairs going to the upper level), also built in 1899. Nestling up behind the blacksmith shop is its frame addition, built in 1901, with storage space for equipment on the lower level and a dance hall on the upper level.
Behind that is (I believe) the house still standing at 6310 Ainsworth Road. It was a one-story structure when this photo was taken; sometime in the early 1930s a second story was added. I don't know whether Ed owned it.
I will have more to say about these buildings and their history when I've finished researching them. But since my primary source of information is non-searchable microfilm, that could be many weeks.
I think Edward was the father of the George Sauter who ran a grocery store in Hobart in the 1920s — he did have a son named George, per the 1900 census. I will try to check on that.
Below is a rendering of the blacksmith shop/dance hall by artist Dale Fleming. Notecards with this illustration, and similar drawings of other local historical places, are available at the Hobart Historical Society Museum.
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