Old Abandoned Buildings of Northern New York page 15

Taken on 05/11/07
Old house on Route 177
On Route 177 between the corners of Kubinski Road and Cobb Road. Collapsing.

From Lida Rose (via Flickr.com): "I know exactly where this is and have seen it slowly deteriorate over the last 20 years. Too bad."

From oldpartsman1 (via Flickr.com): "Nice find!"

From PantherPhotography (via Flickr.com): "It's always sad to see houses fall down. Like the one on my great papa's land. I'll be so sad when it falls. You always wonder what it looked like when it was first built."

Taken on 05/11/07
Sears Pond Road, another collapsing house

Taken on 05/11/07
Flat Rock Road Milkhouse
Old milk house, but the barn is gone. In sight of the Maple Ridge Wind Turbines. Awesome viewing.

Taken on 05/11/07
Flat Rock Road
Old collapsing farm buildings.

Taken on 05/11/07
Old schoolhouse surrounded by trees, Gardner Road
Outside of Lowville.

Taken on 05/11/07
Old house, Gardner Road, outside of Lowville

From 'Campany' - "I may have a picture of this place when it was a running farm...maybe a Matty farm? Will compare pictures."

Taken on 05/22/07
Poor's Island papermill ruins
For info on the trail (and a few pics of the trail) on Poor's Island/Kamargo Island click here.

Taken on 10/08 by Hope M. of Perceptionphotography.biz

Taken on 05/22/07
Rollers used to crush grind the wood in the papermill
There are a number of ruins and pieces of the papermills on this island and along the trail created and maintained by the Brookfield Power Company.

Jack S writes: "That is a grind stone the wood was ground not crushed. There were pockets around the stone where wood was hydraulically pushed against the turning stone."

Jack S writes "This is a carthage grinder. It was used to grind pulpwood into wood pulp in a papermill. The 'rollers' that you see in the abandoned paper mill pictures were inside this castiron machine. Wood was loaded in the pockets as seen on the left, the door was closed and the lever pulled to actuate the hydraulic cylinder which forced the wood against the grind stone. Water was sprayed against the stone to keep the wood from burning. Wood and water mixed, came out the bottom and was called slush, this went through a series of screens to remove slivers, then to the beaters to make the fibers finer, then onto the paper machine. If only wood fiber was used it was a solid wood sheet; an example of that would be the old fashioned milk bottle caps. For other sheets it was mixed with other fibers, chemicals, dies, and waste paper."

Taken on 05/22/07
A picnic area is built inside the ruins of this papermill.

Taken on 05/22/07
A picnic area is built inside the ruins of this papermill

Taken on 05/22/07
More ruins, a wall or channel of some kind

Taken on 05/22/07, picture taken by ScannerMan
Abandoned Massey Ferguson dealership on Rt. 11 in Antwerp

Taken on 05/22/07, picture taken by ScannerMan
Old Building, Dekalb Junction

Scannerman contacted the town of Dekalb historian; Virginia Fischer, who wrote: "The location of the long low building was once the Borden Milk plant. When Paul Stevens used the building as a Slaughter House, the building next to it [the building in the photo above as well as the next photo] was built for his office building and is not used now. The long building is now James Stiles used auto parts."

Taken on 05/22/07, picture taken by ScannerMan
Old Building, Dekalb Junction

Former Ideal Drive In sign, just south of Canton

Taken on 05/22/07, picture taken by ScannerMan
Sign for the former Ideal Drive In, just south of Canton

Taken on 05/22/07, picture taken by ScannerMan
Movie screen for the former Ideal Drive In, just south of Canton

Scannerman writes: "It looks like it was a double-sided screen, at least."

Date taken unknown, picture courtesy of Whitey
Excellent shot of an old stone house. Somewhere in Hammond.

From comac1103 (via Flickr.com): "I find it amazing on what parts will stay standing."

Taken on 07/16/07
Large old stone house with collapsed roof, in Deer River, Route 26

Update on 11/23/09 - The roof continues to collapse on this great old stone house.

On 8/1/12 Scott D. writes "It's a shame that this house appears this way today. I know the family of the last owners. They are successful dairymen today. I think another time would have found them still there and successful, just as they are today. They have a tremendous family support and value system."

On3/7/13 Eric writes "I have seen this place deteriorating for 25+ years and no one has done anything with it. It appears to have been quite a nice house in its day. Does anyone have any info about who owned it and what that person did for a living? Thanks Eric."

Taken on 06/12/05
Old house on Ridge Road, outside of Watertown

Taken on 07/16/07
Another of previous (from a later time)

Taken on 07/16/07
Large stone house, Rutland Hollow Road, outside of Watertown area
Looks to be some work being done on house, and clearing/construction nearby.

On 1/5/12 Dolores Marie Foley Now Worth writes "My family and I used to go past this home over 60 years ago. Is it up for sale?
Since A child we went past this building. Restoration was started, but I do believe the gentlemen died. Let me know ift you have any more pictures of inside. Thank you so much, Dolores."