Garrison Little Red Chapel Revisited

I already posted about Garrison’s Little Red Chapel (seen here from the rear) in 2014 (pictures taken in February 2012). At that time the Chapel (which had most recently been an antiques store) was vacant and had a ‘For Sale’ sign on it.

I went by the other day and noticed that it’s gone! The site has been cleared and there seems to be some kind of monument in the middle. I didn’t have time to stop to see if anything was written on it. I have no idea if the building has been destroyed or whether it was moved somewhere else. I hope the latter, but fear the former.

Door and Vines

I have a weakness for vines growing on a building so when my wife recently dropped me right next to this one in Cold Spring I headed straight for it. Add the slightly weathered wood, the pastel yellow of the paint and the completely “out of kilter” doorstep (or maybe doorslab would be a more appropriate description) and what more could you want.

The funny thing is that the light fixture (or whatever it is) above the door is almost the same size, color and shape as the edit pins (e.g. for local adjustments) in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, which I use for post-processing. Thinking it was some kind of local adjustment that I’d added I tried to click on it edit, only to find that it wouldn’t respond. Took me a little while to figure out why. I guess my brain wasn’t working too well that day.

Ossining Boat and Canoe Club

View of the Hudson through a window at the Ossining Boat and Canoe Club.

We went to see presentation on “Historic Downtown Ossining” given by the Ossining Town Historian. Very interesting if a little long – at least it seemed that way but that might be because we were very hungry. The presentation showed how a large part of downtown Ossining was lost to urban renewal and in 1970s. One entire side of main street disappeared and wasn’t really replaced with much. Very Sad. A lot of old photographs were shown, many in the form of before/after shots. It’s startling how much was lost. There were also a number of personal stories from some of the older town inhabitants with memories of how things used to be. The venue was the Ossining Boat and Canoe Club (where these pictures were taken), right on the river by the Ossining metro north station,

Ossining Boat and Canoe Club – Interior.

Buoy by the entrance.

Boat slip and Hudson View.