Charles and Adelina Moitz bought this building in 1896 from Michael and Babette Blumenthal and Solomon and Hannah Newmeyer. When Charles died he bequeathed it to Adelina, his widow. She sold the property to Joseph B. Hamburger (1871-1944) in 1923. Joseph Hamburger was a clothier and dry goods merchant and he and his wife, Selina, lived above their store here. Following Joseph’s death in 1944, Selina Hamburger sold this building to Benjamin Benesch and his brother, Morton Benesch.

In 1947, the Benesch brothers opened Benesch’s Department Store, a popular women’s clothing store run by Harry Miller. Jackie Brandon says she shopped there all the time but right before the first day of school each year her Mom would take her there and buy five dresses. The Havre de Grace Record of August 31, 1961, carried a large ad for Benesch’s: "First Time Ever!! Sale" on Sarong Criss-Cross girdles and panty girdles that "win the battle of the bulges. . . without feeling girdled." Several other ladies liked getting clothes there as teenagers, including Kay Pearson Keetley, whose cousin, Emma Heimiller worked there as did Sally Lieske Daigle. And Barbara Bradley appreciates that they let her buy items on lay-away with her babysitting money. Benesch’s is also remembered for selling boy scout uniforms and gear. Benjamin Benesch was active in the Jewish Big Brothers and Big Sisters League in Baltimore. The Benesch family continued running the store until 1975.

The International Development Corporation, run by Myron Newmeyer, owned the building for a couple of years and leased the space. George’s TV shop, with George Babec, opened with sales and servicing of televisions. Carey A. Snyder, husband of Allen Fair’s business partner, Mary Lynn Snyder, owned this property from 1977 to 1995, during which A.J. Fair Realty made its home here in the early 1980s. The late 1980s brought Superior Telecommunications Specialists (STS) here with telephone services and systems. Beginning in 1992, the Havre de Grace Corporate Center LLC (of which Volney Ford was the majority owner) rented the building from Carey Snyder.

In 1995, the Corporate Center with Volney Ford bought the building from Carey Snyder. In the mid-1990s this was the office of the Havre de Grace Chamber of Commerce with its Director, James A. Cameron. Beginning in 2003, the ground floor became the RiverView Gallery. The Corporate Center continues to house several offices in the building, including that of Community Projects of Havre de Grace, in addition to the art gallery. In late 2019, a fire in a second-story apartment in the rear caused some damage that was repaired in spring 2020 and the building reopened with its tenants.

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Built 1930. 6460 sq feet office building, 5400 sq ft lot.