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8 The Altamont Enterprise - Thursday, January 37, 2000 Cold weli Banker kicks in $10,000 to Schoolcraft House By Melissa Hale-Spencer GUILDERLAND — The his- toric Schoolcraft House just got a boost from current house sales in Guilderland. On Tuesday, Kenneth Ray- mond, co-owner of Coldwell Banker Prime Properties, pre- sented Kenneth Runion, Guilder- land's new town supervisor, with $10,000 for the preservation of the Gothic Revival mansion. Raymond hopes the gift will inspire others to make similar donations. \So many of us are lifelong residents,\ he said. \We're all baby-boomers and los- ing our parents... \It happens so suddenly. When someone asks, \Who would you like us to make a donation to?' the Schoolcraft House is a good an- swer. It's a living memory, a liv- ing tribute. That's where my \When someone asks, 'Who would you like us to make a donation to?' the Schoolcraft House is a good answer.\ \For every home listed by us in Guilderland, between Sept. 15 and Dec. 31, Coldwell Banker Prime Properties donated a per- centage,\ explained Bob Sand- berg, the sales manager at Cold- well Banker's Western Avenue office. He estimated there were 30-odd properties involved. He credited Merry Sparano, an agent in his office, as being \instrumental in making the union\ between the real estate firm and the Schoolcraft House. Sparano has long been active in historical preservation in Guilderland. \What better way to give back to the community than to help restore one of the area's most distinctive homes?\ Sandberg asked. For Raymond, the gift had deep personal meaning. He ex- plained, after the check presenta- tion was over, that the gift was made in memory of his parents, Kenneth and Helen Raymond. \They lived on Fletcher Road in Guilderland for 50 years,\ he said. brothers and sister were coming from,\ said Raymond, who is one of seven children. Five phases \This is wonderful because it gives us the lift we needed,\ said Town Historian Alice Begley as the check was being presented. Early money went for neces- sary foundation and structural work on the home, built in 1835. \We're going to go ahead now with the front phase,\ said Beg- ley, as she waxed eloquent about the \beautiful diamond panes\ of the prominent front bay window. \Now the community can see it,\ she said. \As they drive by on Western Avenue, they'll be able to look up and see it in all its splendor.\ Begley spearheaded the movement to save the School- craft House when its owner planned to sell it in 1993 to make way for a parking lot. 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The money is to help restore the Gothic Revival mansion built by Schoolcraft in 1835. Sales manager Bob Sandberg and Town Historian Alice Begley look on. Then, in 1997, the house restoration project received an- other grant, of $29,000, which was also matched, for a total of $58,000. A group called Friends of the Schoolcraft Cultural Center was formed to help raise funds for its preservation. \It's a small group of residents who have had an intense interest in restoring the house so it can be used by the community,\ ex- plained Begley. She said that, last year, the town budgeted $24,000 for the project and the Friends plan to match that amount. The $10,000 from Coldwell Banker will be part of those matching funds, Begley said. The project is now in its third phase of five, with the total cost estimated at between $250,000 and $300,000. The first phase, Begley told The Enterprise this week, in- volved cleaning the house and tearing out inappropriate mod- ern walls and additions. The sec- ond phase involved fixing the foundation, putting on a new roof, and doing structural re- pairs. The third and current phase will include repairing the front of the building, which faces West- ern Avenue, and repairing the porch on the south side of the building. \We've been spending money on the absolute necessities to pro- tect the house,\ said Begley. \Now we're at the exciting phase where it shows.\ She said architect Larry Wil- son will work with the town on bidding the project as early as next month; scaffolding could be in place by May or June. The fourth phase will involve repairing the interior of the build- ing, and the fifth phase will in- volve site work outside, Begley said. The Schoolcraft House, once restored, will be used as a cul- tural center for the town, Begley said, for educational programs, art shows, musical recitals, and meetings. She also said parts of the mansion may be rented out for functions to help defray costs. \Stately charm\ For the check presentation Tuesday, Runion, Raymond, Begley, and Sandberg posed in the supervisor's office, standing before an oil portrait of John L. Schoolcraft. Begley is writing a biography of Schoolcraft and has collected many of his letters and journals. She said she would eventually like to have them displayed in the restored house. The Enterprise Albany County's Weekly for 115 Years Presents the PROGRESS EDITION FEBRUARY 10, 2000 Highlighting Local Businesses and their Progress in 1999, along with their Plans for the Future. The section will be seen by our 17,000 readers in the community. With the purchase of an advertisement you may submit an article and/or picture to appear in the same issue, or rely on our feature reporter to interview you and write your story. For more information and pricing call the advertising department at 518-861-5893. At the time he built his Western Avenue mansion, Schoolcraft was a successful Albany banker, local businessman, and politician. His home is now on the state and national registers of historic places, largely because of its Gothic Revival style. The ornate mansion, with its steeply pitched roof and deeply carved molding, earned the local nickname of the \Gingerbread House,\ Begley wrote in a 1994 Enterprise column. \The elegant mansion was slightly out of placa amidst the much more modest bungalows that had been built nearby in previous decades for the workers of the glass factory across the road,\ she went on. \The Hamilton Glass Works was supervised by Schoolcraft's brother, Lawrence. Lawrence was the father of Guilderland's favorite son, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the author of Indian legends and poems about the Vale of Tawasentha. He was also a scientist, ethnologist, and dis- coverer of the source of the Mis- sissippi.\ Begley also described the in- side of the Schoolcraft House. \The white marble fireplaces and the hand-carved paneling below the tall, slim windows suggest an elegance seen rarely in the Guilderland homes of that era,\ she wrote. \A large cone-shaped skylight is also unique to the times,\ she went on. \A beehive oven in a large brick fireplace shows the role the basement played in the family economy of the aged Schoolcraft House. The base- ment boasts a red brick herring- bone floor and outer walls of tooled stone. \It is a lovely house with all its beauty and stately charm,\ she concluded. Scholarship student VOORHEESVILLE — Christ- opher Horan, son of William and Suzanne Horan of Voorheesville, has been awarded a $5,500 Empire State Scholarship from Saint Michael's College for the 1999-2000 academic year. Horan is a junior with a dou- ble major in psychology and Spanish at the college, located in Colchester, Vt. He graduated from Clayton A. Bouton High School before going to Saint Michael's. Horan is active in instrumen- tal music, cross country run- ning, alpine skiing, and track at Saint Michael's.
