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Pink Downing cottage faced ruin from Route 9 widening
In Garrison New York a pink stucco Downing designed cottage with 12 gables and carved trim, saved from demolition in 1961, has endured a long rescue saga. Benjamin West Fraizer bought and carefully mapped the pieces before moving them to a barn on Boscobel land. A 1966 fire destroyed Fraizer’s reconstruction photographs and plans. The hay barn housing the cottage then collapsed after a tree fell, leaving the pink house exposed to winter weather.
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Benjamin West Fraizer
Hudson
Frazier
Poughkeepsie
Downing
West
John McNally
Peekskill
Garrison
Boscobel
DeWitt Wallace
Reader's Digest
Ben W. Frazier
Lila A. Wallace
Hudson Valley