The Payer House in McAdoo, PA, the year about 1894, general store at left, residence at right. Shingle roof and clapboard siding. The house was about a year old then. The man on the porch is not grandfather Stephen F. Payer (1). The woman is probably grandmother Elizabeth (Fuchs) Payer and the child one of their earliest, probably Oscar or Felix. The sign at right reads "Austrian Hotel". As the children were still few and small at that time there was plenty of room for boarders. There were probably a couple of dozen homes in "Pleasant Hill", later McAdoo, in this era. This general store was followed by one in Pottsville and another in Tamaqua. It took most of the day to get to Pottsville by buckboard.

See also a holiday decked out front view of the house.