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b PAGE TWELVE THE LEADER THURSDAY, OGTQOER X 1 ^ ; • -• -r:;: New York’s Fraunces Tavern Yields Relies of Yesteryear Like an encrusted old treasure ship at the bottom of the sen !>ii liLstoiie building in downtown Manhattan is yielding rclices for- f.otteo fur two and a half centuries. Some of the finds include: —Construction stone quarried on-site from the Cellar cxcava-- tion before the first arithmetic liook was printed in the American colonies;' —Beams hewn and filled by adze some 13 years before George Washington was born. —Hiind-prcsscd yellow bricks from Holland and red bricks from Kngland. imported before Ben jamin Franklin entered his^ teens, —Rough-trimmed lathing'-M^d 'hand-forged nails hammered into place a good 35 years before the French and Indian War began. Thoy were recently uncovered still inlacl in Fraunecs Tavern Mu.seum during n reverse mod ernization project. ■ Thi.s year Sons of the Revolu tion, tile patriotic society which owns the 1719 building, initiated restoration work combining both maintenance and uiiadorment. Maintenance lncludG.s new roof tile and some auxiliary interior steel to help preserve public rooms visited by thousands of people annually. Unadorment is recapturing the building’s appearance as it was in tbe days when the Boston Post Rond led to its door. Time erased tlio Boston Post Road outside but added flourisho.s , inside during fater periods, and the.se flour- ishes obscured the building's original Early Georgian lines. As each flouriali' is removed, Uuj- o ld buUdina driunaticalty. eq - venls more of its past. At present the work is con centrated in the Tavern’s second floor Long Room. In 1703 this was the town's foremost hall- room and the scene of George Washington's farewell to his of ficers after he took over New York from the British. Washing ton then retired to Mount 'Ver- noo after nine years of public service. Unique among the discoveries are tufts of red cowhair enshrin- ecT in the landmark. They came \iron Cancer Care Slates Bowling Party 'The Freeport Chapter of Can cer Care will hold a Bowlinng Party on October 11th at 7:30 p.m. at Freeport Bowl, A late buf fet supper will be served. Anyone interested, please call Mrs. Lois Butler at MA 3-5851. and bought the premises in 1762. He operated it as the Queen’s Head Tavern until 1785. ■ om cattle herded past Fraunces Tavern down the mud and cob blcstone streets! the animals were kept nearby. As Fraunces Tavern was being built, plasterers tossed the hair into still wet wall coating as. bin der material. Tltc fluffs of hair remain on some , of the interior walls where they dried in place —undisturbed for 250 years. They will be preserved .with other original Tavern components'. - PUMPS - m u $ v p n m f Factory Guaranteed Parle Established 1924 Manhattan’s oldest building, Fraunces Tavern was not' built to be a tavern. It was first the home of Etienne (Stephen) do Lanc'ey, a wealthy merchant who built it as a very stylish and elegant mansion. His family name is commemorated by New York City’s Dclanccy Street. Some years later he built an other fine home of a similar, der sign where 111 Broadway now stands, but it was destroyed by the-Groat F ito of 1776 . Meanwhile, the de Lancey fam- ily was using the old building for offices, storage and w^arehousing, Samuel Fraunces, later ap pointed steward to George Wash ington, saw the profit potential in operating a tavern at a terminal point on the Boston Post Road MARTIN OIL HEATS BEST FR 8-1400, 8-0283 Son's of the Revolution 'pur chased Fraunecs Tavern in 1904, gradually unravelled,its architec tural history and began restoring it in stages. In addition to the society’s famed Revolutionary War Museum and the historic Long Room the building houses the Sons-of the Revolution found ing chapter’s offices and a conces- sonaire’s restaurant. Guilding the rofitoratlon • is Gerald R. W. Watland, an ar chitect who specializes in 18th Century restorations and who is a Sons of the Revolution mem ber. He is working in collabora tion with Edward J. Hurley,'al so a New York architect. 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