The Vedder Research Library

Mildred Reinhardt’s sketch graces the 2016 cover. The Botsford house rests two houses past the Greenville post office on Route 81 west. Its Victorian color scheme surprised Greenville residents in 1990 when owner June Clark re-painted her house based on the results of a paint chip analysis. The house was placed on the State and National Register of Historic Places following four years of research that linked the Botsfords to early planters from England and distant family links with the Hudson River School painter, Frederick Church.

The graceful house of Elsie Roe long held a convenient spot between the Greenville pond and Cunningham’s Funeral Home. Many remember Elsie in the mid-20th century as a taker of boarders at her Park House, as the telephone bill collector, editor of the Greenville Local, as well as other activities. The house was razed in the early 1960s to make way for the Coxsackie National Bank (inset).

The Botsford House has graced Greenville’s West Main Street (two houses west of the post office) for 125 years. The house gained local attention about 1990 when owner June Clark, upon completion of a paint chip analysis, repainted the house to its original multi-hued colors. Clark’s efforts led to placement of the Botsford House on the National and NYS Historic Registers. The cover sketch is signed by June Mead Daniels, 1992.

A growing GCS student population led to an approved proposition of a new Jr-Sr High School on property to the rear of the then GCS K-12 building that fronted State Route 32. This new site had been the Rundell orchard. On June 8, 1967, school officials and students, community members, and company reps gathered in the traditional ground-breaking ceremony. Captured during a moment of speech making, from left: Walter Ingalls, School Board President (with shovel); face front; Paige Ingalls (Gr. 7); Mary Lou Norton (Gr 9); face; two bits of head, then a dark hair with an eye; Carolyn Dedie (Gr. 7); Jeff Tyrrell (Gr 9); Chris Maxwell?; Stanley Ingalls (father of Walter, on first GCS Bd of Ed); Jeff Haverly (Gr 9); Reverend Richard Clark (Episcopal Church); Robert Mirabelli (Gr 9); girl in dress; Steve Chatterton?; Rev Duncan MacKenzie (Methodist Church); Regina Cassin?; Margaret Hulick.

The Vanderbilt Opera House served Greenville as its cultural center. Here, a children’s performance is shown in a rare interior photo. An approximate date of the 1930s has been suggested. The building had been the Episcopal Church located in East Greenville of the mid-1800s before being moved to its site, today the property of Cumberland Farm. The inset shows the theater exterior in its final years before it was razed in the early 1980s.