Andrew Melin's Fairfield Addition

CK Melin sent me this ad, which appeared in the Hobart News of April 7, 1910, and which reminds us that, although he is better known as the superintendent of the Kulage Brick Works, Andrew Melin also dabbled in real estate for a time.


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Here is Andrew Melin's Fairfield Addition as it appears on a map of Hobart circa 1960:


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Image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.

It is bounded by Wisconsin Street on the west and Washington on the east, Old Ridge Road on the south and the (former) Pennsy tracks on the north. These days, the Walgreen's on the northeast corner of Wisconsin and Old Ridge Road occupies the southernmost part of the Fairfield Addition.

The 1908 Plat Map shows that land owned by someone whose name is hardly legible, but looks like "R. Renahan" or maybe "Rehanan." Either way, I can't identify that person.




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Andrew Melin, real estate mogul.
Image courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.