Jan Gelders writes: This house was built by William Stewart, father of Maud Stewart Gelders, in 1904. The Gelders house is on W. Central Avenue across from The Massee Bed and Breakfast and was built by William Stewart as a wedding gift to Maud and Isidor Gelders in 1898. Maud Gelders was the first teacher in the colony, in addition to writing the History of Fitzgerald along with many other accomplishments in the field of journalism, as co-editor with her husband Isidor in the Fitzgerald Leader Newspaper, the original descendant to the first colony newspaper.