{"id":1359,"date":"2025-05-10T12:26:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T17:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2025-06-17T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:30:00","slug":"meet-the-webster-museum-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/meet-the-webster-museum-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Webster Museum (Part\u00a03)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The next stop in our History Bits Tour of the Webster Museum\u2019s permanent exhibits is the office of W. Roy \u201cBob\u201d Hawley. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

W.R. Hawley was born in 1881 to George Nelson Hawley and Mae Hawley, who owned a prosperous general store. He could have chosen to take that over when he grew up, but instead, in 1910 he opened Hawley\u2019s Hardware Store at 17 West Main St., and later moved it to the corner of Lapham Park. When it closed more than 50 years later in 1965, it was the oldest retail business in the village or town of Webster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to running his store, W.R. was also actively involved in the Village of Webster\u2019s political and social scenes. In 1931 he was elected village mayor, a position he would hold for the next 34 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the original items you\u2019ll see when you visit Mayor Hawley\u2019s office at the museum are the roll-top desk which sat in his office at the back of the store, and the store\u2019s ornate cash register.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Adjacent to Mayor Hawley\u2019s office is the museum\u2019s tribute to the many apothecaries and their pharmacists who have served our town. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next to a recreated drugstore, complete with an apothecary cabinet, apothecary bottles and mortar and pestle, are biographies highlighting some of Webster\u2019s best-known pharmacists. They include George Mason, who in 1884 built the block at 5 East Main St. and opened a combination drug and grocery store on the first floor; and Milton Case, who owned the Webster Drug Store in the 1930s and served as village mayor for several years. You can also read about Walter Weiner, who bought the Webster Drug Store from Milton Case, and Frank Lucas, who ran the Lucas Rexall Drug Store for 43 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stay tuned for the next stop on our museum tour of Webster in July when we take a closer look at our town\u2019s dairy industry. In the meantime, you can find out more about the Webster Museum on the website, webstermuseum.org<\/em>. Or stop by for a personal tour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Webster Museum is located at 18 Lapham Park in the village, and is open every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 2 to 4:30 p.m. There\u2019s no admission charge.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

email me  at missyblog@gmail.com<\/a>. <\/em>\u201cLike\u201d this blog on Facebook<\/strong><\/a> and follow me on Instagram and Threads (@missyblog)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(posted 5\/10\/2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The next stop in our History Bits Tour of the Webster Museum\u2019s permanent exhibits is the office of W. Roy \u201cBob\u201d Hawley.  W.R. Hawley was born in 1881 to George Nelson Hawley and Mae Hawley, who owned a prosperous general store. He could have chosen to take that over when he grew up, but instead, in 1910 he opened Hawley\u2019s Hardware Store at 17 West Main St., and later moved it to the corner of Lapham Park. When it closed more than 50 years later in 1965, it was the oldest retail business in the village or town of Webster. In addition to running his store, W.R. was also actively involved in the Village of Webster\u2019s political and social scenes. In 1931 he was elected village mayor, a position he would hold for the next 34 years. Among the original items you\u2019ll see when you visit Mayor Hawley\u2019s office at the museum are the roll-top desk which sat in his office at the back of the store, and the store\u2019s ornate cash register. Adjacent to Mayor Hawley\u2019s office is the museum\u2019s tribute to the many apothecaries and their pharmacists who have served our town.  Next to a recreated drugstore, complete with an apothecary cabinet, apothecary bottles and mortar and pestle, are biographies highlighting some of Webster\u2019s best-known pharmacists. They include George Mason, who in 1884 built the block at 5 East Main St. and opened a combination drug and grocery store on the first floor; and Milton Case, who owned the Webster Drug Store in the 1930s and served as village mayor for several years. You can also read about Walter Weiner, who bought the Webster Drug Store from Milton Case, and Frank Lucas, who ran the Lucas Rexall Drug Store for 43 years.  Stay tuned for the next stop on our museum tour of Webster in July when we take a closer look at our town\u2019s dairy industry. In the meantime, you can find out more about the Webster Museum on the website, webstermuseum.org. Or stop by for a personal tour.  The Webster Museum is located at 18 Lapham Park in the village, and is open every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 2 to 4:30 p.m. There\u2019s no admission charge.   email me  at missyblog@gmail.com. \u201cLike\u201d this blog on Facebook and follow me on Instagram and Threads (@missyblog) (posted 5\/10\/2025)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-webster-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webstermuseum.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}