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General News: Historic Homes Featured Monday Night
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| The Wisner homestead on Mountain Road |
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| 80 Quaker Avenue was built in 1849 |
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| The McGuinness family will receive a plaque for their home on Avenue A. |
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| The Rose-O'Dell home on Duncan Avenue was built in 1868. |
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| What house is known as Knoll Shoal? |
January 28, 2008
If you are interested in local history and in the preservation of historic houses in Cornwall, you won’t want to miss Monday’s meeting of the Cornwall Historical Society.
This month, the society is presenting plaques to the owners of five houses who have documented the rich history of their residences.
Jane Harkinson, who still lives in the house she grew up in on Chestnut Street in Cornwall, has been in charge of the historic plaque program at the historical society since it began in the year 2000.
She says that 35 homes have been issued plaques, including those being honored Monday night. Harkinson says that to be eligible for the lovely, American-made aluminum plaques, a house must be at least fifty years old. Applicants must recount the history of the house or an interesting architectural detail when applying, or merely explain what is important to them about the house.
The oldest home to be honored on Monday was built about 1790 on Mountain Road. A member of the Wisner family, owned the house in 1840 but current home owner, Dr. Rothman, doesn't know who built the farmhouse with a sweeping view of Storm King Mountain. Based on tax records, the house's architecture and use of square dowels and nails of the era, he placed the construction date around 1790
Nancy and Bruce Bryan own the white storied house set back off Quaker Avenue that was built in 1849. Margaret and Glen McGinnes’s home on Avenue A, built in 1869, will also receive a plaque, along with the nearby home of Maryanne Rose and John O’Dell, Jr. on Duncan Avenue that was built in 1868.
One of the homes will remain a mystery here, the only clue a stone marker at the entrance that reads “Knoll Shoals.” A possible nautical connection, you may easily think. You can read more about the history and see photos of all these fine houses at the historical society meeting that begins at 7 p.m. at the public library.
Also planned for the evening is a screening of a historic film showing Cornwall’s shopkeepers and civic leaders in 1929 that was filmed by none other than the mother of town historian Janet Dempsey.
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The House on Avenue A is owned by the Peggy and Glen McGinnis Family (you mispelled their last name).
posted by gaelfan on 01/28/08 at 8:05 AM
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