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74º05’ 16.002 27.002 27.004 Xx 74º04’ 7.004 74º03’ 17.005 28.001 74º02’ 8.001 8.003 17.001 28.003 17.048 16.004 17.003 74º01’ 2.003 17.007 17.051 74º00’ 28.002 28.011 8.002 17.002 17.015 28.058 2.004 18.004 17.016 17.004 28.004 73º59’ 73º58’ 19.001 18.001 29.013 29.003 73º57’ 9.003 29.005 29.009 40.001 18.055 29.046 29.047 18.010 73º56’ 73º55’ 42º10’ 42º09’30” 42º09’ 42º08’30” 42º08’ 42º07’30” 42º07’ 42º06’30” 42º06’ 42º05’30” 42º05’ 42º04’30” 42º04’ 42º03’30” 42º03’ 42º02’30” 42º02’ 42º01’30” 42º01’ 42º00’30” 42º00’ © 2004, M. S. Smith 73º54’ 302 High Falls Road 8.2-3-23 42º08'38"N, 73º59'07"W A designated landmark of The Historic Preservation Commission of the Town of Saugerties CLICK HERE for Designation Documentation 2005 Survey Landmark #10 Town of Saugerties, NY N Pages from Town of Saugerties, New York, Historic Resources Survey, March, 2005 Narrative additions: Michael McCabe Farm This property would be best known as the school of the artist Abram August Champanier. It functioned in this respect throughout the decades of the 1940's and 50's. The Michael McCabe Farm is a prime example of a property that has gracefully transitioned from the nineteenth century to the twentieth. Much of the local economy in this period went from a land supported to a service oriented one. In the 1800's most farms were self-supporting through cash crops and bluestone quarrying. Into the next century many survived as boarding houses for summer visitors. Some of these visitors purchased farms as second residences. Locally, in the Saugerties and Woodstock area these were often artists. A. A. Champanier is typical of the successful artists from New York City that took up residence here to run schools for the many summer art students attracted to the area by a community centered on the Art Students League school in Woodstock. At various times he had his school in Woodstock, Kingston and at this farm. After the farm his school was named the Saxton Falls School of Art. The deed to A. A. Champanier references Michael McCabe as the original owner of the consolidated 3 lots (68 acres) it described. This is the reason for its name. Each of the McCabe lots in turn referenced number designations of 6th Class lots in a division map of the Kingston Commons. The single lot of these three that is now designated the Michael McCabe Farm is number 30 in the 6th Class. This is described as 23 19/100 acres and is the earliest one of McCabe's three purchases (1852). Its description places the lot bordering the east side of the "Highway from Quarryville to the Great Falls". A previous transfer to David Ransom from Ephram Myer puts the acreage at 28 1/2, which is closer to the full lot size of the original Kingston Commons division map. This included the land on the west side of the road. The intact boundary walls that define the north and east borders of this farm are one of the most important historical assets of the town. These are the only landmarks on the USGS topographical map of Saugerties representing the 1804 distribution of the Kingston Commons. Their directions and point of intersection make up the only physical reference for accurately finding all other locations deeded out of that historic survey. It is important to recognize that hundreds of similar stone walls filling similar functions are found throughout the town. These walls are important because they are recorded on the USGS map and thus are measurably placed as a topographical feature of the town. The stone entry level of the Michael McCabe house was likely built at the time he made the 1852 purchase. It takes advantage of the ready supply of cut stone from the many active quarries nearby in Quarryville. The Beers Atlas of 1875 places the house in its present location and under the name "M. McCabe". The 1893 USGS, one of the first, also places this house. These make its relatively secluded location an historically recognized feature of the town. The house suffered a fire in 1989 but though changed in its upper floors has mostly retained the texture and feel of the original inside and out. The acreage of the farm retains a quality of its rural setting preserved by the sensitivity of its artist owners from A. A. Champanier on to the present. W N S E W S E Detail from the revised 1963 Geological Survey overlayed with an Ulster County parcel map scaled section. 0 ¼ ½ ¾ 1 Mile Photo 0 165 feet 1/8 Mile Town of Saugerties 2004-2005 Historic Resources Survey Note: Graphics including outlines of structures and lot lines are schematic. All photo locations are approximate. 2 Photo 1 Photo Locator map from survey documentation #1 #2 4 Photo 3 Original Michael McCabe house looking west at Kaaterskill Clove #3 #4 Numbered descriptive photos from survey documentation
74º05’ 16.002 27.002 27.004 Xx 74º04’ 7.004 74º03’ 17.005 28.001 74º02’ 8.001 8.003 17.001 28.003 17.048 16.004 17.003 74º01’ 2.003 17.007 17.051 74º00’ 28.002 28.011 8.002 17.002 17.015 28.058 2.004 18.004 17.016 17.004 28.004 73º59’ 73º58’ 19.001 18.001 29.013 29.003 73º57’ 9.003 29.005 29.009 40.001 18.055 29.046 29.047 18.010 73º56’ 73º55’ 42º10’ 42º09’30” 42º09’ 42º08’30” 42º08’ 42º07’30” 42º07’ 42º06’30” 42º06’ 42º05’30” 42º05’ 42º04’30” 42º04’ 42º03’30” 42º03’ 42º02’30” 42º02’ 42º01’30” 42º01’ 42º00’30” 42º00’ © 2004, M. S. Smith 73º54’ 1228 Blue Mountain Road 8.2-6-1 42º08'35"N, 74º00'14"W 2005 Survey Landmark #11 Town of Saugerties, NY N Pages from Town of Saugerties, New York, Historic Resources Survey, March, 2005 Narrative additions: This is the Grant Cole House, page 15 (top) in the DAR “Old Stone Houses” (1976) W S E Detail from the revised 1963 Geological Survey overlayed with an Ulster County parcel map scaled section. 0 ¼ ½ ¾ 1 Mile Photo Photo 1 3 N Photo 2 Photo 4 W E S 0 165 feet 1/8 Mile Town of Saugerties 2004-2005 Historic Resources Survey Note: Graphics including outlines of structures and lot lines are schematic. All photo locations are approximate. Locator map from survey documentation #1 #2 #3 #4 Numbered descriptive photos from survey documentation
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