20200864 Ballston Ave Townhomes - SSPF Letter Spring,
Preservation F 0 11 ndation
January 9, 2019
Ms. Tamie Ehinger, Chair
FOR ee' Design Review Commission
City Hall
PRESERVATION 474 Broadway
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F 0 R Z2YEARS Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
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4,./ RE: 96 Ballston Avenue—Demolition& New Construction
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Dear Ms. Ehinger,
The Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation has reviewed the application for proposed
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,.... . . town house development at 96 and 116 Ballston Avenue.
The Foundation has done preliminary research on the historic house located at 96
Board of Directors
Ballston Avenue. The house is located on land that was formerly the Woodlea estate of
Matthew Veitch John K. Beekman(see enclosed article). In 1873 a map was drawn to subdivide the
President former Woodlea estate. At that time a few lots were sold and houses were built on
James Gold Union, Perry, Aletta, South(now Lincoln Avenue) streets, and on the corner of Ballston
Vice President&Secretary Avenue and Livingston Street. A neighborhood of modest homes developed along
Adam NFavro Union, South, Finlay and Perry streets and on both sides of Ballston Avenue leading to
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Treasurer Geyser Spring. More research is needed,but the house appears to have been constructed
circa 1906 based on the information thus far and the architectural style of the house. The
Caroline Cardone
Brennan Drake house may be eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.
Sandra Fox
Liz Israel The Foundation recommends that this building be reviewed as architecturally or
Samantha Kercull
Douglas Kerr historically significant, in which case the criteria for demolition as outlined in the
Richard King Architectural Review Ordinance should be met.
Michelle Paquette-Deuel
Cindy Spence
Dmitriy Yeniaolayev Thank you in advance for your thoughtful consideration.
James Kettiewell incerely,
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Samantha Bosshart
Executive Director Matthew E. Veitch pSamantha Bosshart
President Executive Director
Nicole Babie
Membership&Programs
Director
Cc: EDP LLP, Agent
Ballston Avenue Partners, LLC, Appliant
Bradley Birge,Administrator of the Office of Planning and Economic Development
Mark Torpey, Chair of the Planning Board
112 Spring Strt.t.t. Suite 203
Saratoga Springs. NY 12866
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he present Skidmore College Kayaderosseras as early as 1810,and was hands of a liberal gentleman. Mr. Finlay became addicted. Dr. Perry reportedly Perry, and in 1870 Saratoga surveyor South Broadway. Most of Woodlea's
campus was once a grand estate a part owner of the Congress Spring.' gives it freely and enjoys the pleasure it used a dozen one-ounce bottles of J.W. Mott drew up a subdivision map.' building lots sat empty until 1962.
called "Woodlawn," but few By 1827 he owned the 150 acres that gives his friends.In all my experience...I McMunn's Elixir of Opium each week, The house and grounds were left intact, The small neighborhood centered
Saratogians remember that there was a became Woodlea and,probably in 1827 never drank such wine."' and in the last years of his life it is said but the northeast part of the property on Union Street grew up in the 1890s,
similar estate, called "Woodlea," at the or 1828,built a stone house there for his Finlay and his wife had 13 children, "he kept to his bed." was cut up into building lots, populated by Irish-American families.
other end of town.Both were considered summer residence,just south of the pres- six of whom died at birth. Their eldest, With his drug problems, marital Sometime in 1873 Aletta Finlay and By 1910 a few Italian-American families
"suburban," since they were too far ent Price Chopper. He was"a crusty old Aletta (1844-1874), became Woodlea's troubles soon followed. Aletta Finlay John Perry married, but their nuptials arrived, but it never became solidly Irish
from the village center to walk there bachelor,"wrote Philip Hone,the famous most colorful resident and initiated the moved into the Perry's home and, one were short-lived: the doctor died in or Italian,with English,Dutch,and finally
on a regular basis. Both were created in New York City diarist,"living for many subdivision that would evolve into a could assume, began an affair with the November, and Aletta followed that French Canadians scattered throughout,
the late 1820s by wealthy men whose of the last years of his secluded life in a neighborhood of comfortable homes. doctor. Then he moved into rooms in June. Both died in Rutland; it seems along with an African American, Leslie
homes were in New York City. Though sort of enchanted castle near to Saratoga the McCaffrey Building where his office likely that, even in tolerant Saratoga Manigault. For nearly half a century,
Woodlawn is remembered, Woodlea is Springs." Beekman had a great wine THE SHORT,SCANDALOUS LIFE OF vvas located,and six months later Aletta Springs, their affair had created a good Manigault served as steward of the Sara-
forgotten,despite the colorful history of cellar but, due to a stomach condition, ALETTA FINLAY took rooms there, too. Apparently she deal of hostility. toga Golf and Polo Club;he and his wife
its founders, was unable to imbibe.When he wouldn't When John Finlay died, the five young- accompanied Perry "to Egypt for an Ida moved to 47 Union Street in 1920.All
Its eastern boundary was Union allow others to drink in his stead,he was est children were still minors,and Aletta inspection of the pyramids," according THE SUBDIVISION 'FI-IAT WASN'T-- the Woodlea houses were modest except
Street, which was intended to fork west reviled as a selfish miser.' became their guardian. By that time she to a descendant of Perry. 5 It became AND.1-HE ST. CHRISTINA HOME for a handsome Shingle Style mansion:
from Broadway at the present Hilton By the 1850s Woodlea had become the was living on her own as a boarder in the obvious to Harriet Perry that some- The Perrys did nothing with their sub- the Geyser Lodge at the Livingston
Garden Inn; its western boundary was year-round home of Beekman's nephew, Circular Street home of Dr.John L.Perry thing was up and she began divorce division. In 1872 they sold most of it to Street corner, which remains a bed-and-
about where Joseph Street turns off West John Beekman Finlay (1810-1869). and his wife,Harriet. proceedings. The Troy Daily Times, McOmber and Chapman; McOmber breakfast,its use for generations.
Circular Street,the northern limits of the Finlay served as president from 1852 New Hampshire-born Perry (1814- less discreet than Saratoga newspapers, sold to James H. Wright, and the new But the big house at Woodlea became
150-acre tract. to 1856 of the newly-chartered First 1874)came to Saratoga in 1835 after his reported in detail,calling him"a festive partners had another subdivision map a much-loved Saratoga institution. Late
Woodlea's creator,John K. Beekman National Bank of Saratoga Springs, marriage to Harriet,whose father ran the old Lothario."' drawn in 1873 that included more of in 1884 Aletta Finlay's executors sold
(1777-1842),was a larger-than-life New and was elected a justice of the peace original Adelphi Hotel.Perry opened his But something else was going on, as Woodlea than the first map.'A few lots the mansion to Spencer Trask.9 By the
York investor known as "Theater Jack" in 1866. Each morning, it is said, he medical office in the building just north well. As executor of her father's estate, were then sold, but houses were built following summer it had been converted
from his partnership with John Jacob drove his famous high-stepper, Poscara, of the Adelphi but, by the early 1850s, Aletta controlled a lot of property. only on Union, Perry, Aletta and South into a "convalescent home" for invalid
Astor in the Park Theater. His largest to Saratoga Lake. He was very different he was an opium addict. This was not Shortly before either of them moved (noNAT Lincoln Avenue)streets,and on the children, managed by the Sisters of the
investments were in western Sullivan from his uncle: Philip Hone wrote that unheard of in those days; many middle- out of the Circular Street house, Aletta corner of Ballston Avenue and Livingston Holy Child Jesus,an order of Episcopal
County, but he bought land along the John Beekman's wine"has fallen into the class Americans used the drug,and many deeded a half interest in Woodlea to Street. Finally,a summer cottage rose on nuns. Called St. Christina Home, it was
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home-like surroundin's.And I thought to THE MCCARTY HOSPITAL new residence for his family."' It was
, -• • --. • . _ , . — myself as looked,out on the big grounds AND THE WASHINGTON INN probably built later that year; it still •f,
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surroundin' it, and walked through the The only development on the south side stands as the southern Washington Inn ! .
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Li mined that the buildings were underuti- of the Washington Inn.His widow sold it executors sold it to Charles H.Russell an
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• 4 # -' '• '""'A.''.4-..:+ '•.4.,; '4,.• ,''';,..:4\'.'•'•':::' year there were 38 girls in the training e grauateany A SPECTACULAR FIRE—the age of 20,he from Alb . • I" I
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"Homes For AU r advertisement for have lasted very long, but the hospital Thompson cottage lie renamed it the the old Woodlea subdivision. In 1960
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building lots in Woodlea, From The continued until World War II, closing Anna Theresa, after his wife. The only he re-platted it with larger, 70-by-100- i :
Saratoga Sentinel,1875 in 1942. It then operated as Breen's neighbor was the "base ball grounds," foot lots called "Saratoga Estates."'s
Guest House, with the large rectan- located where the Hilton Garden Inn Beginning around 1972 he built simple, , . . . ,
gular building dubbed Lincoln Lodge, stands today, cozy one-story cottages for his buyers
named for one of the four Trask chil- The McCarty Hospital,ca. 1900, now the site of the Washington inn on Broadway.
but briefly around 1948 it was the In 190.5 he began converting the along Pleasant,Prospect,and Livingston
dren, who all died young. Many of the colorfully-named Barbary Coast Hotel cottage into the McCarty Hospital, a streets,and Spa Drive.
residents came from the Child's Hospital
over the years, but on its southernmost tion Atlas of Saratoga and Ballston(1876),pl.7;
and Country Club, with the former private, physician-owned facility. It was Woodlea mansion stood empty in
in Albany for a summer respite from
Lincoln Lodge as its casino. According a business, but it was also a privately- gloomy splendor along Route 50 for point,the Washington Inn still welcomes Saratoga County Surrogate,File 099:2,
June to October.A newspaper reported,
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to hearsay, the operators, Herman and held charitable institution. His obituary most of 30 years. In 1968 there was a anyone entering the civia Route 9 with Saratoga County Deeds167:564
"The house is charmingly situated in the Sidell Halpern, refused to pay the first makes it clear that it"was always opened plan to use the land for a new, 80-bed a bit of Victorian style. en 10,"St,Christina Home,"Saratogian,18 June 1889,
5;Saratoga Union25 December 1889,12;Sanborn
midst of a large grove of forest trees, year's "cut" to local officials and never to the poor."In 1930, there were eleven Rose Villa Nursing Home, but the
with a beautiful lawn in front where the SOURCES Map Company,S,aratoga Springs(1900),pl,18.
reopened. Soon, like Woodlawn two births and two deaths in the hospital,and unfinished plan for what became the
Wi11. Marietta Holley, Samantha at Saratoga n.p.:
children sport and play. Swings and miles to time 1. Alf Evers, The Catskills: From lderness to e north, it became "weed 600 people had been treated there.'5 short four-lane at SPAC discouraged the Edgewood Pub (
lishing Co.,1887),530,
hammocks were scattered around the shrouded."13 And like Woodlawn, its In 1906 McCarty hired F.G.Vaughan, nursing home management, who gave Woodstock(Garden City,N.Y: Doubleday,1972),
12. Sarah E. Powell, "The St. Christina Home,"
705; Saratoga County Deeds, E; 376, I: 421;
park, and there were sleeping porches end came through fire. a Saratoga architect, to design a up the idea.'9 It met its end just after Nathaniel Be Sylvester,History of Saratoga County Churchman,24 July 1897,112,
where many of the children slept.By the
midnight on June 11, 1972, consumed (Philadelphia:Everts and Ensign,1878),167, 13. Insurance Maps of Saratoga Springs, N.Y
spring of 1889 Trask had funded a new
A typical house in Woodlea,the Manigault residence,47 Union Street. by a spectacular fire.2°W.J. Grande had 2.Town Tax Poll,1827; Saratoga County Deeds, (New York: Sanborn Map Company, 1954), 51;
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original mansion,and by 1900 there was ' Of,-.4,- ,...4.1.-- .,-. -
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6. Sylvester, 188, 219; Cornelius E. Durkee,
Samantha at Saratoga, the tale of a - ' , , ,.. - 3:,1. tin RI -,_ I ! 4,
Completed in 1973,it was first known Reminiscences of Saratoga (Saratoga Springs, 18.Saratoga County Clerk,Map GG:116,drawn 15
homespun farm couple from Jefferson ._ _ ..,. . , .3 _ 1. ,. ,...*: IM E EU - ,f. i el
,.,,,..4 , R. .,- . ,m um ii I .--E.--_ it I as Big N Plaza for its anchor store. A 1927-28), 68, 89; S.N. and D.C. Beers, New February 1960,filed 5 September1961.
County on their visit to the spa. As in - -- ,, ---a_,... i!' ',
all her books, Holley mixed humor - 1 ,,.-. ' IL.:, -------- -- ' Price Chopper was added by 1976, and Topographical Atlas of Saratoga County, N.Y 19. "Nursing Home Construction Delayed by
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with satire and social commentary, 1 .1 f __ (Philadelphia: Stone and Stewart), 1866, pl. 56; Saratoga Arterial," Schenectady Gazette, 28
-‘, ! -. : ' MP' l' likir first five years or so were Eddy's Liquors, Boyd's Saratoga Springs Directory (Saratoga November 1968.
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to an institution she respected. Of St. I - --.i. "! ' , r wEi ?t, - i kk Ir I .ii Surrogate,File 087 041 Supreme k I - ° Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips K
Christina Home she wrote, "I felt dret-
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and a card and gift shop.-2 A new Price June 1871,
I place where poor little sick children are
took to out of their miserable, stiflin',
dirty garrets, and cellars, and kep' and
made Well and happy in their pleasant,
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end in the 1990s.
F gentleman's farm to shopping
From 7. Saratoga County Deeds 115:152; Saratoga
County Clerk's Office,map P-5. Gordon Boyd "3 5 a Sho in Centers Racinoi
Open,"Schenectady Gazette,30 June 1972,8.
22,Manning's Saratoga Springs and Ballston Spa
8,Saratogian,9 June 1870,3;3 December 1872, Dfrectory(Bellows Falls,Vt.:H.A.Manning,1976
- - - - center, Woodlea has changed plenty 4,Saratoga County Clerk,Map AA-21;Combina- and 1978).
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