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General News: Village Wants to Save Historic Barn
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| The former blacksmith shop on Hudson Street. Photo by Phil Hopp. |
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| The second barn is tucked behind the first one. Photo by Phil Hopp. |
October 15, 2008
A former blacksmith’s shop on Hudson Street may find a new home in the village. On Monday, Cornwall-on-Hudson trustees agreed to consider moving the 100-year-old barn to a new location at the riverfront, near the entrance to the Cornwall Yacht Club.
Doug Cooper, of the Cornwall Historical Society, told the trustees that a private patron has agreed to buy the barn from Burns & Whalen, developers who plan to build multi-use residential/commercial structures on the land where the barn now stands. A second barn on the property could also benefit from a rescue plan, Cooper said, although he noted that the blacksmith shop held more historical value. He said he intended to ask the town of Cornwall to find a home for the second barn.
Cooper said that the barn could be dismantled and the pieces numbered and stored until the funds could be raised to re-assemble it at the riverfront. Funds would be needed for a foundation and a new roof for the barn, as well as manpower to do the work. He also noted that if the village couldn’t find a home for the blacksmith’s barn, someone in Greene County was interested in taking it.
Mayor Joe Gross said he liked the idea of saving the historic barn, as did trustee Barbara Gosda, who earlier this year presented a lecture on the Gogarty blacksmith shop. “The historical integrity of the village has to be protected and preserved,” Gosda told the board on Monday night, “We can’t just let it go.”
Mayor Gross also noted that the riverfront location would be near another historic structure – the seaman’s chapel that now holds storage items from the yacht club. He asked the village attorney to prepare a resolution for next week’s trustees meeting that supports the barn’s placement at the riverfront.
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