tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post6385307296557111772..comments2024-03-28T11:21:19.200-04:00Comments on The Gossips of Rivertown: Time and AgainCarole Osterinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-5484269753956272782010-07-20T09:31:33.688-04:002010-07-20T09:31:33.688-04:00Fascinating ! It has always looked like two house...Fascinating ! It has always looked like two houses stuck together but I didn't know why. The later 'double' house was probably enlarged by one of the Evans Brewery brothers. The large crumbling victorian with the mansard roof next door was the other brothers home.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-84571023199685277542010-07-20T07:58:07.419-04:002010-07-20T07:58:07.419-04:00The Hudson artist Henry Ary (teacher of Sanford Gi...The Hudson artist Henry Ary (teacher of Sanford Gifford whose grave can be seen in an earlier post here) had his studio in this building at the time of his death in 1859. His home was across the street in the space now occupied by the title search company. The outline of the original Ary house can still be seen in the northwest corner of that otherwise brick building. That "wooden" house is all that occupied the property when Ary died; the rest of the property was a garden. The brick building there today was built around the original house and incorporated into it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com