Real Loss and Feared Loss
Tonight, Gossips returned from dinner shortly after 9:30 p.m. to find an email giving the information that the Hudson Fire Department had been dispatched at 7:50 p.m. to a structure fire at 14 Fabiano Boulevard, the historic Joab Center House, known familiarly as the Turtle House.
This news was particularly disturbing because I also learned today that the house's owner, Zane Studenroth, had died suddenly earlier this week. Upon learning about the fire, I drove out to the house but found no firetrucks and no evidence of anything amiss. (Of course, it was dark.)
At about 10:00 p.m., when I was returning from the scene, Bill Williams of 98.5 The Cat posted this account on Facebook: "Reports of fire brings large response in Greenport." Williams reports that "the fire was put out quickly, and contained to the outside of the home." According to information found elsewhere on Facebook, the fire affected one of the house's columns.
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Surly an OBIT of Zane Studenroth and his beloved house is in order ... sorry to hear of his passing
ReplyDeleteIt seems very odd to me that a column should combust a few days after the owner was no longer there in the house. I hope the fire department treats it as a suspicious blaze.
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