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Michael McNyland purchased this lot from Louis Nawatny in 1880 and it stayed in the family for 75 years, until 1955. McNyland and his wife, Hanora Collins Klee McNyland, had both been born in Ireland in the mid-1800s. As early as the 1880 census, they can be seen as living in this location with Hanora's children from her previous marriage to Franklin Klee. Following Michael and Hanora McNyland's deaths that are believed to have taken place in the early 1900s, two of Hanora's daughters, Maggie and Philomena, lived in the house. (Another daughter, Anna, married John Moffitt and lived nearby on Main St.) Maggie Klee Campbell is believed to have lived in the dwelling at 722 Main until the late 1930s. Her nephew was the administrator of her estate and sold the property in 1955. Current Building, since 1959: In 1959, a group of Louisville men purchased the property at 722 Main. They were James Fenolia, Ray Caranci, and Glenn Fischer. James Fenolia was the U.S. Postmaster at the time. They formed as the "FCF Company" and had a new U.S. Post Office constructed on the site that year (not in 1960, as the County website states). It had its dedication on August 23, 1959. As described in the August 21, 1959 Louisville Times, it was constructed under the federal Post Office Department's Commercial Leasing program to encourage the modernization of post offices. Buildings such as this one were constructed to postal specifications using private financing and then leased to the federal government. The new Post Office opened in 1959 with James Fenolia continuing as Postmaster. This Assessor Card photo shows 722 Main in 1960: Fenolia retired at the end of 1964. In 1965, Lois Goodhue Mall was appointed as Postmaster. (She is also shown in a photo above, and she had a very short commute to work since she lived directly across the street in her family home at 717 Main Street.) The following photo shows Lois Goodhue Mall in front of the P.O. at 722 Main in 1971: 5