Hesse Home in Otego: a Virtual 18th-century House and Home Museum By TERESA WINCHESTEROTEGO For 33 years, Buzz Hesse, a trained archeologist and former owner of the auction house Hesse Galleries, has lived with his wife, Jackie, in a house built in the late 18th century. He loves to tell the story of how he first spotted the structure in Laurens, later purchased it, then disassembled it, and ultimately found an ideal site for the house in Otego.The moment he…
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To Barn or Not to Barn … By Helen K. B. Rees The Swart-Wilcox Barn Committee met on Monday, October 3 to discuss the possibility of a barn for the Swart-Wilcox House Museum complex. There had been a barn on the property from the 1790s until 1968. At that time it was burned down by the City as a fire-fighting exercise. It is now felt that a barn would help tell the story of the early settlers, who were mainly…
City Hall Seeks $500,000 To Redo Oneonta Theatre By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com City Hall will seek $500,000 in state funding to restore the Oneonta Theatre, the former movie house at 27 Chestnut St. that has been on the market and unused for five years. Mayor Gary Herzig received Common Council’s unanimous approval Tuesday, Jan. 5, to seek the money through the state’s Main Street Anchor Program aimed at restoring vacant buildings. While there is no time-frame for…
GOAL: FIX NOTRE DAME de PARIS ‘Mary’s Plan’ Mailed To President Macron’s Desk By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com By the time you read this, “Mary’s Plan” for the redevelopment of Notre Dame de Paris may be on the desk of France’s president, Emmanuel Macron. “We’re going to print this plan on beautiful paper and send it directly to the palace” – the Palais de l’Élysée – “with beautiful photos,” said Jim Belleau, as he prepared to mail the…
Bresee’s Santa Lives Restored Five Years Ago, Jolly Elf Reclaims His Stature In Downtown By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Even Santa Claus sometimes needs a little work done. For the past five years, he’s been a Christmas Time treat at the Greater Oneonta Historical Society, but for many years after Bresee’s Department Store closed down in the 1990s, he was out of the public eye. “He had been in our warehouse, and we rescued him,” said Elaine Bresee,…
‘Garden’ Window Installed In New Methodist Church …