“Seeing a house that her 3x great-grandfather built just might bring him to life!”
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Great-great-great granddaughter discovers clues to when Elijah Horr built his house….
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On a Sunday afternoon in September 2021, the owner invited friends to celebrate the first bake in the new oven. He rose early, chopped wood, and built a good hot fire to heat up the bricks he had so carefully laid.
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In the early 1980s, when I started doing research on stone houses in Jefferson County, I visited Drs. JoAnn and Robert Crisp-Ellert, owners of Stone House in Cape Vincent, both of whom held PhDs. Mrs. Ellert was an artist whose “Renoir boating parties” on the St. Lawrence River sparked my imagination.
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“Many small things disappear in our home….”
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I am surprised at how accurate my memories are of the flooring, the wainscoting and the inside shutters. I loved those shutters!
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Red, white, and blue bunting celebrates the signing of the Clayton Charter in the front room of Greystone Inn, 1833.
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Not sure what could cause such a cold, I looked into the full basement and it was filled with one huge block of ice.
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One weekend, when we were coming home at dusk, we turned into our drive and as the headlights shone up the hill, we could see bats going into the house through the eaves.
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In 1979, the Daniel Ackerman House in the Town of Brownville, was arsoned. A propane tank was set inside the back door and lit. Immediately, the house was aflame.
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