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Former Child Receiving Center- Restored
Monday, March 11, 2013    
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Neil Coleman Insurance is now calling the historic house home following a nine-year restoration.

Everybody who has been watching the grand old house at Western Avenue and Locust Street for the last nine years can see a finished product now.

Neil Coleman has finally moved his insurance business from the former Citizens National Bank... to that building, after extensive renovation and restoration.

Historically know as the "Walke House" from a prominent family who lived there in the mid-19th century, it's probably best known as the Children's Receiving Home, which served a bit as an orphanage.

Records are unclear, but it was built sometime in the 1810s...and is one of a few houses of its grand, early style in the country.