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[[File:PhotoLogo.jpg|50px|right|link=Photo Gallery|Go to Photo Gallery]]This page is a series of images of buildings and locations in Rensselaerville comparing and old photo with a current image of the same scene; ideally taken from the exact same spot - but then how often is life ideal?
[[Image:Rvll-christ-h-1-.jpg|250px|thumb|left|<center><br>From [[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]]</center>]]
[[Image:Rvll-christ-1-.jpg|250px|thumb|right|<center>2002 by Ann Henry<br>From [[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]]</center>]]

I am thinking this would also be a great idea for a book! 

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There is now a separate page for each town. Here links to the other town pages:
*[[b:Berne - Then and Now|Berne - Then and Now]]
*[[k:Knox - Then and Now|Knox - Then and Now]]
*[[w:Westerlo - Then and Now|Westerlo - Then and Now]]
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==Rensselaerville hamlet==

===Grist Mill===
The present [[Rensselaerville Grist Mill]], built in 1880, replaced the first mill built at this site in 1788 which was destroyed by fire in 1789. After the death of Edmund Niles Huyck in 1930, his wife Jessie Van Antwerp Huyck established the Edmund Niles Huyck Preserve in his memory. Sometime after the mill ceased operations Jessie Huyck gave it to the Preserve. In 1975 the Preserve sold the Rensselaerville Grist Mill to the [[Rensselaerville Historical Society]] for $1. The Historical Society uses the Grist Mill as a museum of the town’s early history.
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Image:RensselaervilleGristMill2.jpg|<center>Photo Courtesy Rensselaerville Historical Society</center>
Image:Rvll-grist-1-.jpg|<center>Grist Mill 2002<br>From [[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]]</center>
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===Huyck Felt Mill===
Huyck Felt Mill, 5052 Delaware Turnpike, Rensselaerville, NY
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Image:Rvll-huyck-mill-h-1-.jpg|<center>Original Huyck Felt Mill at Rensselaerville, NY - 1870<br>From [[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]]</center>
Image:Rvll-felt-1-.jpg|<center>Remains of Mill Foundations - 2002, (approximately 200 yards behind the E.N. Huyck Preserve office)<br>From [[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]]</center>
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===Creamery > private home===
[[Rensselaerville Creamery]], 1412 CR 351, Rensselaerville, NY operated as a creamery until 1940. It is now a private residence.
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Image:Rvll-cream-h-1-.jpg|<center>Creamery - "Then"<br>From [[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]]</center>
Image:Rvll-cream.jpg|<center>Creamery 2002<br>From [[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]]</center>
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===Watson House===
The [[Watson House]] was constructed in 1809
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Image:Watson.jpg|<center>architectural rendering of the Watson House</center>
Image:Watson House.jpg|<center>Oct. 2009; Eric Chamberlain</center>
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===Rensselaerville Library===
The [[Rensselaerville Library]] building dates from ca. 1820. In the 1800's it was a boot shop. In 1896 it was used a public "Reading Room." In 1906 it was renovated.  In 1995 the library expanded into the house next door.

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Image:Rensselaerville library.jpg|<center>ca. 2002; photo (cropped) by Barbara Husek </center>
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===F. C. Huyck House===
1458 CR 351, Rensselaerville, NY
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Image:Rvll-searles-h-1-.jpg|<center>Huyck House - "Then"<br>From [[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]]</center>
Image:Rvll-huyck-1-.jpg|<center>2002<br>From [[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]]</center>
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===Trinity Episcopal Chruch===
Trinity Episcopal Church, 10 Trinity Lane, Rensselaerville, NY, was built in 1815.
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Image:Rvll-trinity-h-1-.jpg|<center>Old post card- "Then"<br>From [[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]]</center>
Image:Rvll-epis-1-.jpg|<center>2002<br>From [[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]]</center>
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===Conkling Hall===
[[Conkling Hall]], 2318 Methodist Hill Rd., Rensselaerville, NY, was built in 1839 as a Methodist Church. It was purchased by Francis Conkling Huyck, Sr. in 1905, and converted for community use, and renamed "Conkling Hall."
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File:Ren 32.jpg|<center>Methodist Church "Then"<br>From [[People Made It Happen Here]]
Image:Rvll-conk-h1-1-.jpg|<center>Conkling Hall "Then"<br>From [[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]]</center>
Image:Rvll-conk-1-.jpg|<center>2002<br>From [[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]]</center>
Image:Conkling Hall.jpg|<center>Conkling Hall<br> Eric Chamberlain 2009</center>
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===Catalpa House===
Catalpa House, 5032 Delaware Turnpike, Rensselaerville, NY, was constructed in 1806 as a multi purpose structure to house a store, a ballroom, a tavern, offices, and residence for the Frisbee family. The Victorian trim, double doorway, and decorative porch were added in the 1880s. Edith Lounsbury operated it as an inn from 1922 until 1952. [http://www.thecatalpahouse.com/ The Catalpa House] is now a bed-and-breakfast.
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Image:Rvll-cata-h-1-.jpg|<center>Catalpa House "Then"<br>From [[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]]</center>
Image:Rvll-cata-1-.jpg|<center>2002<br>From [[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]]</center>
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==Medusa==
Wright's Creamery
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Image:Rvll-wrights-creamery-h-1-.jpg|<center>Wright's Creamery in Medusa.</center>
Image:Rvll-team-1-.jpg|<center>[[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]] team photo taken 2002 at the foundation of Wright's Creamery in Medusa.</center>
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===Doolittle House===
Doolittle House, 9 CR 352, Medusa, NY
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Image:Rvll-dool-h-1-.jpg|<center>Doolittle House "Then"<br>From [[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]]</center>
Image:Rvll-dool-1-.jpg|<center>Doolittle House 2002<br>From [[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]]</center>
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===Makely House===
Makely House, 18 CR 351, Medusa, NY
Click here for the complete history of the [http://www.uhls.org/Ispy/rvll/rvll-make.html Makely House]
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Image:Rvll-make-1-.jpg|<center>2002<br>From [[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]]</center>
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===Medusa Christian Church===
Medusa Christian Church, 37 CR 351, Medusa, NY
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Image:Rvll-christ-h-1-.jpg|<center>Then<br>From [[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]]</center>
Image:Rvll-christ-1-.jpg|<center>2002 photo by Ann Henry<br>From [[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]]</center>

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===Mulberry House Hotel===

Mulberry House Hotel, 29 CR 351, Medusa, NY
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Image:Rvll-hotel-1-.jpg|<center>2002<br>From [[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]]</center>
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==Preston Hollow==
===Baptist Church===
The [[Baptist Church of Preston Hollow]], 3014 SR 145, Preston Hollow, NY, was organized about 1793 but had and existence as early 1787 when the society composed of people living about [[Rensselaerville]]. It was initially called "The First Church at Rensselaerville", so named because it was the first one in the township. Churches at the time preceded villages, and like this one preceded the town, which was not separated from Watervliet until 1790. It was not until 1842 that church minutes list it under its present name of [[Preston Hollow]]
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Image:BaptishChurchPH.jpg|Photo Courtesy: Rensselaerville Historical Society</center>
Image:Rvll-phbap-1-.jpg|<center>2002<br>From [[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]]</center>
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===Methodist Episcopal Church===
The Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in 1840. The church building was bought in 1845 and extensively remodeled in 1884 at which time the tower was added. [[Rensselaerville Historical Society]]
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Image:MEChurchPrestonHollow.jpg|<center>Then photo from [[People Made It Happen Here]]</center>
Image:Rvll-phmechurch-1-.jpg|<center>2002, from [[I Spy My Hometown - Rensselaerville]]</center>
Image:Preston Hollow Church.jpg|<center>Oct. 2009; Eric Chamberlain</center>
Image:PH_church.jpg‎|<center>Oct. 2009; Eric Chamberlain</center>
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===Preston Hollow School===
This school was built in 1900 to replace the original building.  It remained a school until 1970.
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File:PHSchool191?.jpg|<center>Then</center>
File:IMG 2030.JPG‎|<center>The building today</center>
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