Page 74 - Old Abandoned Buildings of Northern New York

Piano in bar on Main Street

Bar

Snack bar on end of Main Street. Notice the fire ax!

Power panel for the town

Frontier Town, Route 9, North Hudson. Photos taken by guest photographer John M. H. on 5/16/14, all descriptions by John M.H. More photos from Frontier Town on this page and this page.

Entrance pole

Animal pens

Loud speaker, noticed these throughout the town

Frontier Town, Route 9, North Hudson. Photos taken by guest photographer John M. H. on 5/16/14. More photos from Frontier Town on this page and this page.

Lantern at the entrance to the mine tunnel (notice the electric lamp inside the lantern)

Outside the mine shaft

Mine with sluice boxes

Inside the saw mill

Frontier Town, Route 9, North Hudson. Photos taken by guest photographer John M. H. on 5/16/14. More photos from Frontier Town on this page and this page.

Inside the saw mill

Inside the saw mill

Frontier Town, Route 9, North Hudson. Photos taken by guest photographer John M. H. on 5/16/14. More photos from Frontier Town on this page and this page.

Inside the water-powered mill

Inside the water-powered mill

Frontier Town, Route 9, North Hudson. Photos taken by guest photographer John M. H. on 5/16/14. More photos from Frontier Town on this page and this page.

On 7/12/14 Debby Bialowas writes "My family went there in 1973 when I was 9 years old and was hoping to take my family on a vacation there. So sorry to see it's no longer open."

3/23/17
Old stone house and accompanying barn on the corner of Route 342 and Route 11, Calcium, Jefferson County.
Previously I had photos of this house posted for a short time, but a few visitors said that it was not abandoned as they had seen lights on inside and thought that an elderly person(s) still lived there so the photos were taken down.
For many years the webmaster has passed this house and it has always looked exactly the same, no cars in the driveway or other activity.
But during the Winter of 2020 a large tree behind the house had fallen over the house, demolishing the wooden addition on the right of the house and damaging the house and windows were missing - it was obvious no one lived there any more.
Summer 2024 - this house and barn are being demolished.
I read a little bit about the previous owner on a posting from a relative.
The previous owner, Margaret Casey, who lived there for many years was an elderly lady who didn't want to sell the property.
After they remade Route 11 there with 4 lanes and a center separator, when she was coming home she would have to go a half mile to turn around to get back to her house as there was no driveway access on Route 342.
Eventually, she moved into a home and the house was left empty for a while until the property was sold and the house demolished. It is now an empty lot.
Sally D. sent us some history on the house.
It is built by Joseph Emond some time after the mid-summer of 1828.
Emond was born in France and served seven year under Napoleon before comint to the US, and buying 55 acres where the house now stands and started clearing it off.
He later died and his son took over the farm and expanded the acreage to 300, and his bought 160 acres of the farm and added more land and became one of the largest dealers and pressers of hay in the area.
He and his wife died and their daughter Mary Belle inherited the house and barn.
When she passed away her will decreed that the house go to the town of Leray to be used as a town library along with $500 for the purchase of books. The Town of Leray did not want it because it was too far away from the villages and would cost too much to take care of.
Mary Belle's second husband died in 1941 and the administrtors of his estate sold the property to the Casey's, who owned it until they had both passed away.

On 7/13/2021 Dan Pilssbury writes "I grew up less than a half mile from this house in Calcium and rode the bus by it every day for school. I always admired the limestone houses of the North Country. So sad to see this house deteriorating."

On 7/31/2024 Stephanie Robinson writes "So sad to see this old stone home being demolished. I first noticed it when we were stationed at Fort Drum in 2010. I immediately looked for it when we return in 2022. Does anyone have the history behind this home?"