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Hidden in Plain Sight: Seneca Perry and Son

Keeseville Fire Department 8 Pleasant Street, Keeseville, NY, United States

  Seneca Perry (1796-1860), a boat wright turned carpenter-joiner, relocated his family from Bennington, VT to Keeseville when his son, Isaac Gale Perry, was 7. Isaac (1822-1904) attended the Keeseville Academy until age 10 when he left to apprentice with his father from 1832-1854. In New York City, Isaac apprenticed in the office of architect Thomas R. Jackson (1826-1901). Known as New York’s first “State Architect,” Isaac Gale Perry was active across the state building institutional structures and finishing the

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2023 Summer Speaker #1 – “St. John the Baptist Church”

Keeseville Fire Department 8 Pleasant Street, Keeseville, NY, United States

Guest Speaker: Steven Eric Dorr

A Keeseville native, holds a degree in art history from SUNY Plattsburgh.  His semester-long research on the architecture of St. John the Baptist Church was the basis of his thesis.

 

 

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2023 Summer Speaker #3 – “Queen City To Keeseville”

Keeseville Fire Department 8 Pleasant Street, Keeseville, NY, United States

Guest Speaker: Historian, author, documentary filmmaker, former radio personality James R. “Jim” Jones has been tracking local steamboats, industry, recreation, entertainment and railroads from the Champlain Canal’s opening in 1823 to the present.

 

Discounted KEESEVILLE RAILROAD book and DVD for sale at the show.