SCHOMBER HOUSE
The Schomber house is another twice-moved Gilman Village treasure. It was built in 1900 on Front Street, beside the family bakery. The house was relocated in 1921 to another site on Front Street. During the relocation process, Harry Schomber, a boy at the time, slept nights in the upstairs of the house.
The house's original foundation contained some of the bricks from the first baking oven which Schomber's daughter, Gertrude, says he dismantled when he converted his bakery oven to coke fuel. The bricks now appear at the base of the present greenhouse window and garden wall along the main Gilman Village walkway, near #15.
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