131 Fountain Avenue

    The house located at 131 Fountain Avenue was built by Joseph McCandless in 1901 and his family continued to own the house over the next hundred years. This was the second house Mr. McCandless built as he and his brother built the very first brick residence at 622 Wayne Avenue in 1893.
    I remember growing up a couple of blocks away and recall thinking that the family that lived there (Agey’s) at the time were living in a castle. With the rounded brick porch and the “tower”, of course this house in my mind had to be a castle. I also remember the giant pine trees that lined the Second Street side of the yard. The house looked so much bigger when they were cut down.
    Joe wasn’t done building brick houses as he built the large brick garage behind the house on Fountain Avenue with a large apartment above it in 1902. He later built additional brick houses in the same vicinity, the first facing Fountain Avenue and the other one facing the alley. He later built brick houses on Line Avenue Extension, the brick house at 700 Orchard Avenue, and a brick house on Fourth Street that is still owned by his grandchildren today.
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