Name/Title
Woodlandside, BarrytownEntry/Object ID
2015.008.168Description
Copy of postcard "Woodlandside, Barrytown, N.Y.'
Last house to the west on the north side of Station Hill Road, destroyed by fire about 1973-74. The story is that there was a New Year's celebration held there, with out-of-town guests, and after everyone left the next day, the fire started. Several fire departments were called but there was no way to get enough water to put the fire out.
It was built before the Civil War by the Barrytown Martins.In the 20th century it was the home of Stephen Grancsay, Curator of Arms and Armor at the Met. Museum. It was eventually bought by Dick Jenrette to be a guest house or manager's house.
Notes in the Martin genealogy file indicate that the house was built by Augustus Edward Martin, son of Gotlop (Gottlieb) Martin and his wife Isabella Fulton Martin, in 1860. He married Lydia Maria Benner in 1832 and represented Dutchess County in the the NY Assembly in 1852-53. He is listed as a Barrytown merchant in the 1850 census and as a coal dealer in the 1870 census. He was appointed postmaster of the Barrytown Post Office in 1836, taking over from the very first Barrytown postmaster, his brother Michael. Augustus died in 1875 and is buried in the Lutheran cemetery in Red Hook Village. He left his Barrytown property to his two unmarried daughters Ella and Serena.Collection
Red Hook Historic Houses Photo Collection