Old Abandoned Buildings of Northern New York page 1

Taken on 07/28/04
Corner of Dano & Creek Road, Jefferson County

Taken on 07/28/04
Route 411, Jefferson County

Taken on 07/28/04
Route 411, across from previous picture

Brandi C writes that this house is "no longer abandoned, someone fixed it up and is living in it."

Taken on 09/23/08
Drake Road (foundations of a barn), Jefferson County
Also see the house that goes with this ruin on this page.

Dave C. writes "The barn was blown down by the microburst (middle 90's.)"

Taken on 07/27/04
Star School House Road, Jefferson County
This house is now being remodeled.

Ellen Cummings MacFarland writes "Gregor Smith owns this home and is doing a splendid job remodeling. This has been an ongoing project for about 3 yrs. It is wonderful to see the transformation and the life come back into it."

Taken on 07/27/04
Depauville Road, Jefferson County

This was owned many years ago by Flander Grant, father or uncle of Dutch Grant. Dutch Grant was principal of General Brown Schools for many years and still owns this place.

Taken on 07/28/04
Morris Track Road, Jefferson County

Was owned by Able Brown and now owned by Bill Brown, has been long abandoned.

Taken on 07/28/04
Morris Track Road, Jefferson County

Same comment/description as previous.
Mary B. writes: "The property owned by bill brown - dated 2004 - I was wondering if anyone can tell me if/who owned it previous to Browns. I am looking for LaRose property with a possible family gravesight on it. thanks!"

Taken on 07/28/04
Star School House Road, Jefferson County

Taken on 07/28/04
Star School House Road, Jefferson County
(Opposite side of road from the previous picture)

Taken on 07/28/04

Combs Road - old stone house, Jefferson County
Update on 09/11/07 - Dumpsters nearby, brush cleared, some work being done. The fancy part at the top of remaining front is gone. Either parts have collapsed or were removed.
Update 05/30/09 - This has been demolished and is now just a pile of rubble.

Property owned by the Manos family.

Joy Griswold Wisner writes "This house was built by Jonathan Webb in the mid 1800's. One of his children was Daniel Webb who married Lucinda Coon, who had a daughter named Mary Alice Webb who married Augustus D. Griswold and is my great grandmother. She was a school teacher and taught in the old schoolhouse on the corner of schoolhouse road. It is a very interesting study. Jonathon raised many horses on the 400 acres that he owned there and sold one team for $1200 (a lot of money back then) and they were taken to France where the story is that they were used by Luis Napoleon. Fun to know."

Taken on 07/28/04
Combs Road, Jefferson County
(different angle of previous)

Taken sometime in 2000
Barn on Perch Lake Road, Jefferson County
Owned by the Moshers, was demolished via a controlled burn (click link for pics) by the Brownville Fire Department.

The foundations after the barn was burned:

Foundations of old barn that was burned down.

The fire was so hot that the remaining limestone of the foundation is brittle and breaks/crumbles easily.

Taken sometime around 01/16/00
Barn on Perch Lake Road, Jefferson County
Other side of previous picture, different time.

A bit of artwork on this page.

Taken on 08/08/04
Rutland Hollow Road, Jefferson County

Mat writes "Very good picture. Like the dead tree against background. Good pictures!"

On 5/24/12 maggie writes "This would be a cool house to do a ghost hunt."

On 4/30/13 RJones writes "I've always called this place my dream house. I explored it with my parents when i was younger and since then wanted to buy the old place and restore it.. wishful thinking probably. :P"

Taken on 08/08/04
Barnes Corners Road (also County Route 69?), Jefferson County

An anonymous reader says: "It is a brick house that was rebuilt after the original burned." Owned by a Harry Morse at one time.

Taken on 08/08/04
Whitesville Road (County Route 156?), Jefferson County

Taken on 08/10/04
Route 12E, Jefferson County

"Chucky and Shirley Goutremont previously owned this farm, as well as a saw mill there. Before the Goutermont's owned it it used to belong to a Harold (Jeff) and Irene Lidster from the 1940's until they sold it to the Goutremont's....it was a very big working farm."
Anonymous poster writes that this has burned down and "There is only a cement foundation and some tin scraps left now." and "The fire is reportedly suspicious".

The remains of the old barn, silo still standing

Above photo is from same anonymous poster showing the remains of the barn, silo still standing. 5/18/08

Taken on 08/10/04
Route 12E

Taken on 08/10/04
House on Route 12E

By anonymous: 'House was, and may still be, owned by the Rust family.'

Taken on 08/10/04
Old farm structures on Route 12E

Taken on 08/10/04
Old house in fair condition on Route 12E

Taken on 08/10/04
Old farm on Route 12E

Sandra W. writes "we purchased this farm in Nov. 2008 and have put a new roof on the main barn in the pic as well as clean-up/remove the old junk trailers...repainted and repaired all of the salvageable out-buildings. the house [not the original] has been remodeled, re-roofed and re-sided. we hope our efforts will help to restore this beautiful old farm to some of it's former beauty."

Taken on 08/10/04
Old barn on Route 12E

~~Was owned by the father of Steve Hall of Steve Hall construction~~.

Correction submitted by Gary Hall: "Belongs to Deer Lick Farm formerly owned by Robert Purcell."

Taken on 08/29/04
Old garage on Route 126, Jefferson County

Webmaster note - the artist Tom Straub has used the shot of this house and other photos from this site in his haunted artwork - check it out at this link.

Jack S. writes: "At one time a small store. The "original quickstop" in the township of Croghan. Beer, soft drink, bread, milk, cigarettes, and gas. If you had a second a story."

CC writes: "I recall there was once a small old fashioned gas station next to this building- it looked to be packed full of items for sale. Believe the Watertown Times once did an article on it that included a picture with maybe an old wooden phone on the wall. Mr. Schwendy ran it and he lived in a big old house out back, it has since burned. Mr. Schwendy had a big old truck that he drove to Croghan and parked next next to the Croghan fire hall, (we called it the milk station) there he waited for all the farmers to bring him their station cans full of milk- each with the farmers 'identification' painted on it. (oldest cans had floppy handles, newer ones had the others) My dad would back his truck up to the back of Mr. Schwendy's and then they would unload and Mr. Schwendy would return us the clean empty ones. He then took the full ones to the Dairylea milk plant. I seem to recall he may have piled them 2 cans high when production was high just to get them all in. The trucks seemed so high and yet my father and the other men could swing a full station can of milk up onto them with just one hand like it weighed nothing! I think Dad called him "Fronts" Schwendy and we stopped a few times at his little store for candy bars and soda. I was still pretty young when the farmers including my dad were required to build new milk houses for bulk tanks and then the milk trucks of today would come and pick up our milk. That ended the social time the farmers had enjoyed together in those mornings at the 'milk station'."

Jack S. writes: "Francis (Fronce) Schwendy hauled the milk from the closed Dairylee plant in Croghan where the fire hall is now to Castorland until that Dairylee plant closed."

Taken on 09/3/04
Old schoolhouse, Evans Road, outside of Brownville, Jefferson County, behind the airport.

Updated photos from Scannerman 12/12/12, he tells us that it looks like it is being used for storage, that the front side walk can still be seen and to note the cat in the doorway: