Note
Original deed of gift reads "oil painting of Klees Mill by E.B. Stubbins. Presented for Mrs. Charles (Molly) Klee". Elmer Bloomfield Stubbins (5 June 1868 - 23 September 1942) was an itinerant painter who lived in Carroll and Baltimore counties. In 1903 he married Mary Catherine Newton in Baltimore and they moved to Green St., Westminster. In 1905, they moved to a farm in Louisville near Gamber that belonged to Mrs. Stubbins' maternal grandfather. At one time Stubbins had lived on the upper floor of Klees Mill and used flour bags as canvases.Note
The mill had a gambrel roof and was located near a steel or iron through-truss bridge on Klees Mill Road near Gist. It was demolished in a 1957 road building project after the mill dam broke and destroyed the old road and bridge. Two Stubbins paintings survive to help document the site and his talent as an artist.