She's a Brick.........House?

Every picture tells a story. For years, I thought of this family heirloom as a fancy brick, and nothing else. My mom told me a story or two, but I was not sure where fact met fable. A trip to the Barre Monument Co. , on East Baltimore Street, confirmed that it was a marble door stop. I suspected that it was made by my great-granddad, William Edward Burgan, who was a stone cutter by trade. He worked for Hilgartner & Sons, a local firm that has been around a long time. I figured that he made it for a relative and it had been passed down, but I couldn't match up the initials to anyone. I was hoping that a trip to Enoch Pratt Free Library's Maryland Room would shed some light on this .I went there last Saturday, and found some information on the Irish Matriarch and Hilgartner that solves the mystery.