West Kortright Presbyterian Church
November 15, 2025
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The West Kortright Presbyterian Church is located at the corner of West Kortright Church Road and Turnpike Road in the town of Kortright in Delaware County, New York. Turnpike Road follows the path of the Catskill-Susquehanna Turnpike, an important early nineteenth century east-west route from the Hudson River through Greene, Delaware and Otsego co...
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Kelly Round Barn, Halcottsville, New York
November 08, 2025
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The picturesque Kelly Round Barn is located on Route 30 in Halcottsville, New York, approximately five miles north of the village of Margaretville.
The barn was constructed circa 1893 as part of a dairy farm operated by the Kelly brothers, including Hiram, David, Norman and George. The circular barn is two stories tall, approximately 90 feet in...
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District 10 School, Margaretville, New York
November 01, 2025
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The District 10 School is a one-room stone schoolhouse that was originally constructed in 1820 to serve the hamlet of Clark’s Factory, which later became known as Dunraven in the early 20th century. The first school at Dunraven, known as District #10, was constructed of wood in 1765 and burned sometime thereafter. The location of this early school...
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Halcott United Methodist Church
October 25, 2025
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The Halcott United Methodist Church was established in 1829 when John P. Van Valkenburg experienced religion and became an exhorter among the people. The first Class, organized by Reverend Calder in 1830, consisted of Thomas Halcott, Reuben Gordon, Archibald Morrison, Nehemiah Covel, Joseph Halstead, John Moseman, Gibbons Griffins, and their wives;...
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Maple Shade Farm, Delhi, New York
October 18, 2025
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The Maple Shade Farm, located in Delhi, New York, was first settled by Daniel Frisbee (1781-1860), son of Judge Gideon Frisbee, an early settler of Delaware County and a prominent local farmer.
Daniel Frisbee
Daniel Frisbee was born in January 1781 at Canaan, New York, and went to Schoharie County, New York with his parents, and at nine y...
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RIP Philip B. Travis
October 11, 2025
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Private Philip B. Travis was a soldier with the Captain Hewitt Company of Colonel Butler’s Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment during the American Revolution. Travis enlisted in 1778 and served on the frontier.
Travis would serve for one year from March 1778 to March 1779. He was wounded and taken prisoner during an engagement with the British and Nati...
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RIP David Corbin
October 04, 2025
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Located adjacent to the Second Old School Baptist Church of Roxbury is the church cemetery. Funerary markers are laid out in several long rows arranged in a north to south direction, with each of the monuments oriented to the west.
One summer afternoon I was walking around the cemetery after having photographed the church. Cemeteries often provi...
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Second Old School Baptist Church of Roxbury
September 27, 2025
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The Second Old School Baptist Church of Roxbury is located along Route 41 south of the village of Roxbury near the crossroads hamlet of Stratton Falls.
The church was formed from the First Old School Baptist Church at Batavia Kill on May 1, 1816. The first pastor was Elder William Warren, who was also pastor of the first church. Its first office...
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Gideon Frisbee House
September 20, 2025
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Gideon Frisbee (1758-1828) was a man of many occupations that through an industrious career included revolutionary war soldier, militia captain, pioneer, farmer, lumber merchant, justice of the peace, county treasurer, tavern keeper and vestryman.
Gideon Frisbee was born at Connecticut in 1758, the son of Philip Frisbee (1740-1813) and Phoeb...
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Woodin Blacksmith Shop
September 13, 2025
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The Woodin Blacksmith Shop, originally located on the family farm in Wolf Hollow in Andes, New York, served three generations of the Woodin family as they made hinges and hardware while also repairing farm equipment for themselves and their neighbors. The adjacent corn crib, also originally located on the Woodin farm, was used to store feed corn fo...
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Amos Wood Gunshop
September 06, 2025
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Amos Phineas Wood (1841-1924) was a gunsmith, machinist, postmaster, farmer and inventor. He used this building in North Hamden from 1867 to 1924 as both a gun shop and post office.
Amos Wood was born on October 19, 1841, the son of Ira Penfield Wood and Sally Howland. Amos received the baptismal names of his two grandfathers, Amos Wood and...
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Husted Hollow Schoolhouse
August 30, 2025
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Early records show that School District No. 10 in Kortright kept a one-room schoolhouse beginning in 1819. That first year the school was in session for six months, of which four months and ten days of that time were under the supervision of an approved teacher. Records show that during this time 70 pupils were registered, 64 of whom were between 5...
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Hamden District No. 1 School
August 23, 2025
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Hamden School District No. 1 was organized in September 1826 to meet the educational needs of the growing rural community. The district encompassed the lower part of the town, on both sides of the Delaware River, near the border with the town of Walton, around the hamlet of Mallory Corners. There were originally eight school districts in the town o...
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Opus 40: A Photographic Study
August 16, 2025
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"One of the largest and most beguiling works of art on the entire continent." Brendan Gill, March 1989, Architectural Digest
Opus 40 is a monumental environmental sculpture set in a former bluestone quarry in Saugerties, New York. The sculpture is made of thousands upon thousands of bluestone pieces that form a puzzle of terraces, stairs, ramp...
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Trinity Episcopal Church at Saugerties, New York
August 09, 2025
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The historic Trinity Episcopal Church is located on Route 9W, near Barclay Street, in the village of Saugerties, New York. The church complex is located on 4.75 acres of land and includes the church building (1831), a parish house (circa 1875) and a parsonage (circa 1890).
The Episcopal congregation in Saugerties was first established in the ear...
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