One of the best known landmarks in Massena, and one of the oldest houses, is the stone house on Andrews St., built in 1831 or 1832.
Its builder was John B, Andrews who came to Massena in 1810. He was born July 23, 1788, in Claremont, N. H., a son of Martin and Phoebe Bellefield Andrews. Martin was a native of Wethersfield, Conn., and Stiles' History of Wethersfield tells us that Martin Androus—the accepted spelling of early days — was a son of Daniel, born 1720, and at least four generations from the progenitor of the Connecticut family, John Androus.
The American Wing of the Metropitan Museum of Art in New York contains what is the finest collection of Colonial American furnishings that has been made. One of the rooms in this wing, the Newington Room, was taken from the home of John
Andrews, the first settler of Newington, which was originally a part of Wethersfield. Halsey and Tower in whose book, "The Homes of Our Ancestors" this room is
described, tell us that John Andrews' fortified house became a refuge for all those settling nearby. There the people could repair to sleep under protection. The
paneling in this room is noteworthy, and was characteristic of the architecture of the Connecticut Valley.
Perhaps memories of tales of this home, and others of his forefathers influenced John B. Andrews when he erected this stone house with its substantial and dignified appearance. The stone for the house was quarried from the bed of the Grasse River a short distance below the present site of the mica plant. Holes were drilled about 15 inches apart, they were plugged and wedges inserted. When the wedges were struck, blocks of stone about ten inches, thick were cut off. This was called the "plug and feather" method of quarrying. The stone was drawn to the homesite
by oxen owned by Jewett Bowers. The lot at that time included several lots to the west and the east of the present lot. All the lumber of the house was handhewn,
and the house was solidly constructed.
Mr. Andrews came to Massena in 1810, and nine years later was assessed for a house and lot, but it is not known where this house was located. The same assessment list shows that Orvis and Andrews had a store. This was not the Old
Stone Store as that was built in 1826. But Mr. Andrews was a leading merchant for many years, and he owned land in various parts of town.
He served the town as supervisor in 1822-4, 1832, 1842-44, 1851-52. He was town clerk in 1834, 1837, 1839; postmaster in 1836; trustee of School District 16 in 1839; in 1828 he was appointed to wait upon the court house commissioners
and represent the interests of the town. Before that time county buildings had been located in Ogdensburg, and in that year it was voted to locate them in Canton.
On the first of January, 1815, John B. Andrews married Susan Boynton, daughter of Stewart and Lydia Boynton, and a sister of Nancy (Mrs. U. H. Orvis), Electa
(Mrs. Benjamin Phillips) and Luke Boynton.
To this couple were born six children, Guy B., Alexander Hamilton, Morris B., Hannibal, Susan and John.
John B. Andrews and his wife both died in 1855 and were buried in a private burying ground on the bank of the river back of the house. Several years later the
bodies were moved to Pine Grove Cemetery.
Some of the old pines are still on the back of the lot, but practically all of the maples are gone.
Guy B. Andrews (1816-1898) was supervisor in 1855-1860, 1863-4. He had a general store about where the Modern Style Shop is located. He married Adeline Ralph, and their children were Ralph and Sue. Mrs. Andrews was a large woman, and very precise in manner. She had decided opinions. One day of each summer she took a folding chair, a small table with cloth, napkins, dishes and silver, and a lunch, and rowed her boat up the river as far as she cared to go, and spent the day by herself. Who could tell how many trials she forgot, and how much strength she stored up for days to come.
The daughter, Sue, is Mrs. Hawarth of. Chicago. Ralph married Phila King. Their children were Guy B. deceased, Sue (Mrs. Brush) and Marion (Mrs. Carl Hamlin.) Ralph was in a general store business for some time, and was postmaster at the Springs in 1897.
It is a coincidence that two grandchildren of Ralph Andrews, are now studying at the University of Vermont ,each having obtained a scholarship; Florence Ann Brush
is working for a master's degree while her cousin, Guy Andrews Hamlin, is a freshman.
Alexander Hamilton Andrews (1819-1901) was assessor in 1856; inspector of election in 1873; postmaster under Harrison in 1841; delegate to the first Republican convention held in the county in 1855; member of assembly from the Third District in 1867-1868; president of the board of trustees of Pine Grove Cemetery when it was organized. He was always called by his second name which was shortened to "Hamp."
A. H. Andrews married (1) Mary P. Miles. Their children were Helen, Kate (Mrs. Harrington of Canton) and Miles. He married (2) Mrs. Esther Thompson-Sawin whose son was J. Charles Andrews.
Helen Mary Andrews was born June 2, 1845. At the age of 16 she began to teach school and continued for eight years. She then entered Potsdam Normal School from which she was graduated in 1875. She taught in St. Albans, Vt. for some time, and then went south to teach in Tuskegee Colored Institute for five years.
Her next position was in Galena, Kan., where she remained three years before going to Oberlin, O. She returned to Massena to teach in the grades and then became assistant to Principal Charles Cobb. After that she taught in DesMoines, Iowa, until 1897 when she came home to care for her father.
An item dated June 27, 1897 states that "The trustees of the public library and reading room have secured rooms in the Martin Block for the library." This was a wooden building which stood on the river bank, about the location of the Friedman & Rosenbaumin store. Miss Andrews was the librarian and kept the room open to the public two afternoons a week. Later rooms were secured in the Phillips and Daly Block; and Miss Andrews gave three afternoons of her time to the work. For several years she drew no salary, but gave liberally of her time and energy to a cause which she recognized as worthy.
She won recognition from educators in both this state and others, but much as she loved teaching, she loved the library more. She may at times have had opinions at
variance with some of the readers, but she was always endeavoring to raise the taste and the standards of the readers. While she was ill with her last illness she was made honorary librarian and granted life salary, a recognition with greatly delighted her.
In 1901, she built the house on Andrews St., now owned by Leon Tracy. In 1904 she traded this house for one owned by Hiram Smith which stood at the present intersection on Andrews and Clark Sts., moved the house back and in 1905 opened Clark St and laid out the lots on four acres of land which she owned. Miss Andrews died in April, 1924.
Massena Observer
Friday, October 17, 1941
Its builder was John B, Andrews who came to Massena in 1810. He was born July 23, 1788, in Claremont, N. H., a son of Martin and Phoebe Bellefield Andrews. Martin was a native of Wethersfield, Conn., and Stiles' History of Wethersfield tells us that Martin Androus—the accepted spelling of early days — was a son of Daniel, born 1720, and at least four generations from the progenitor of the Connecticut family, John Androus.
The American Wing of the Metropitan Museum of Art in New York contains what is the finest collection of Colonial American furnishings that has been made. One of the rooms in this wing, the Newington Room, was taken from the home of John
Andrews, the first settler of Newington, which was originally a part of Wethersfield. Halsey and Tower in whose book, "The Homes of Our Ancestors" this room is
described, tell us that John Andrews' fortified house became a refuge for all those settling nearby. There the people could repair to sleep under protection. The
paneling in this room is noteworthy, and was characteristic of the architecture of the Connecticut Valley.
Perhaps memories of tales of this home, and others of his forefathers influenced John B. Andrews when he erected this stone house with its substantial and dignified appearance. The stone for the house was quarried from the bed of the Grasse River a short distance below the present site of the mica plant. Holes were drilled about 15 inches apart, they were plugged and wedges inserted. When the wedges were struck, blocks of stone about ten inches, thick were cut off. This was called the "plug and feather" method of quarrying. The stone was drawn to the homesite
by oxen owned by Jewett Bowers. The lot at that time included several lots to the west and the east of the present lot. All the lumber of the house was handhewn,
and the house was solidly constructed.
Mr. Andrews came to Massena in 1810, and nine years later was assessed for a house and lot, but it is not known where this house was located. The same assessment list shows that Orvis and Andrews had a store. This was not the Old
Stone Store as that was built in 1826. But Mr. Andrews was a leading merchant for many years, and he owned land in various parts of town.
He served the town as supervisor in 1822-4, 1832, 1842-44, 1851-52. He was town clerk in 1834, 1837, 1839; postmaster in 1836; trustee of School District 16 in 1839; in 1828 he was appointed to wait upon the court house commissioners
and represent the interests of the town. Before that time county buildings had been located in Ogdensburg, and in that year it was voted to locate them in Canton.
On the first of January, 1815, John B. Andrews married Susan Boynton, daughter of Stewart and Lydia Boynton, and a sister of Nancy (Mrs. U. H. Orvis), Electa
(Mrs. Benjamin Phillips) and Luke Boynton.
To this couple were born six children, Guy B., Alexander Hamilton, Morris B., Hannibal, Susan and John.
John B. Andrews and his wife both died in 1855 and were buried in a private burying ground on the bank of the river back of the house. Several years later the
bodies were moved to Pine Grove Cemetery.
Some of the old pines are still on the back of the lot, but practically all of the maples are gone.
Guy B. Andrews (1816-1898) was supervisor in 1855-1860, 1863-4. He had a general store about where the Modern Style Shop is located. He married Adeline Ralph, and their children were Ralph and Sue. Mrs. Andrews was a large woman, and very precise in manner. She had decided opinions. One day of each summer she took a folding chair, a small table with cloth, napkins, dishes and silver, and a lunch, and rowed her boat up the river as far as she cared to go, and spent the day by herself. Who could tell how many trials she forgot, and how much strength she stored up for days to come.
The daughter, Sue, is Mrs. Hawarth of. Chicago. Ralph married Phila King. Their children were Guy B. deceased, Sue (Mrs. Brush) and Marion (Mrs. Carl Hamlin.) Ralph was in a general store business for some time, and was postmaster at the Springs in 1897.
It is a coincidence that two grandchildren of Ralph Andrews, are now studying at the University of Vermont ,each having obtained a scholarship; Florence Ann Brush
is working for a master's degree while her cousin, Guy Andrews Hamlin, is a freshman.
Alexander Hamilton Andrews (1819-1901) was assessor in 1856; inspector of election in 1873; postmaster under Harrison in 1841; delegate to the first Republican convention held in the county in 1855; member of assembly from the Third District in 1867-1868; president of the board of trustees of Pine Grove Cemetery when it was organized. He was always called by his second name which was shortened to "Hamp."
A. H. Andrews married (1) Mary P. Miles. Their children were Helen, Kate (Mrs. Harrington of Canton) and Miles. He married (2) Mrs. Esther Thompson-Sawin whose son was J. Charles Andrews.
Helen Mary Andrews was born June 2, 1845. At the age of 16 she began to teach school and continued for eight years. She then entered Potsdam Normal School from which she was graduated in 1875. She taught in St. Albans, Vt. for some time, and then went south to teach in Tuskegee Colored Institute for five years.
Her next position was in Galena, Kan., where she remained three years before going to Oberlin, O. She returned to Massena to teach in the grades and then became assistant to Principal Charles Cobb. After that she taught in DesMoines, Iowa, until 1897 when she came home to care for her father.
An item dated June 27, 1897 states that "The trustees of the public library and reading room have secured rooms in the Martin Block for the library." This was a wooden building which stood on the river bank, about the location of the Friedman & Rosenbaumin store. Miss Andrews was the librarian and kept the room open to the public two afternoons a week. Later rooms were secured in the Phillips and Daly Block; and Miss Andrews gave three afternoons of her time to the work. For several years she drew no salary, but gave liberally of her time and energy to a cause which she recognized as worthy.
She won recognition from educators in both this state and others, but much as she loved teaching, she loved the library more. She may at times have had opinions at
variance with some of the readers, but she was always endeavoring to raise the taste and the standards of the readers. While she was ill with her last illness she was made honorary librarian and granted life salary, a recognition with greatly delighted her.
In 1901, she built the house on Andrews St., now owned by Leon Tracy. In 1904 she traded this house for one owned by Hiram Smith which stood at the present intersection on Andrews and Clark Sts., moved the house back and in 1905 opened Clark St and laid out the lots on four acres of land which she owned. Miss Andrews died in April, 1924.
Massena Observer
Friday, October 17, 1941
One of the best known landmarks in Massena, and one of the oldest houses, is the stone house on Andrews St., built in 1831 or 1832.
Its builder was John B, Andrews who came to Massena in 1810. He was born July 23, 1788, in Claremont, N. H., a son of Martin and Phoebe Bellefield Andrews. Martin was a native of Wethersfield, Conn., and Stiles' History of Wethersfield tells us that Martin Androus—the accepted spelling of early days — was a son of Daniel, born 1720, and at least four generations from the progenitor of the Connecticut family, John Androus.
The American Wing of the Metropitan Museum of Art in New York contains what is the finest collection of Colonial American furnishings that has been made. One of the rooms in this wing, the Newington Room, was taken from the home of John
Andrews, the first settler of Newington, which was originally a part of Wethersfield. Halsey and Tower in whose book, "The Homes of Our Ancestors" this room is
described, tell us that John Andrews' fortified house became a refuge for all those settling nearby. There the people could repair to sleep under protection. The
paneling in this room is noteworthy, and was characteristic of the architecture of the Connecticut Valley.
Perhaps memories of tales of this home, and others of his forefathers influenced John B. Andrews when he erected this stone house with its substantial and dignified appearance. The stone for the house was quarried from the bed of the Grasse River a short distance below the present site of the mica plant. Holes were drilled about 15 inches apart, they were plugged and wedges inserted. When the wedges were struck, blocks of stone about ten inches, thick were cut off. This was called the "plug and feather" method of quarrying. The stone was drawn to the homesite
by oxen owned by Jewett Bowers. The lot at that time included several lots to the west and the east of the present lot. All the lumber of the house was handhewn,
and the house was solidly constructed.
Mr. Andrews came to Massena in 1810, and nine years later was assessed for a house and lot, but it is not known where this house was located. The same assessment list shows that Orvis and Andrews had a store. This was not the Old
Stone Store as that was built in 1826. But Mr. Andrews was a leading merchant for many years, and he owned land in various parts of town.
He served the town as supervisor in 1822-4, 1832, 1842-44, 1851-52. He was town clerk in 1834, 1837, 1839; postmaster in 1836; trustee of School District 16 in 1839; in 1828 he was appointed to wait upon the court house commissioners
and represent the interests of the town. Before that time county buildings had been located in Ogdensburg, and in that year it was voted to locate them in Canton.
On the first of January, 1815, John B. Andrews married Susan Boynton, daughter of Stewart and Lydia Boynton, and a sister of Nancy (Mrs. U. H. Orvis), Electa
(Mrs. Benjamin Phillips) and Luke Boynton.
To this couple were born six children, Guy B., Alexander Hamilton, Morris B., Hannibal, Susan and John.
John B. Andrews and his wife both died in 1855 and were buried in a private burying ground on the bank of the river back of the house. Several years later the
bodies were moved to Pine Grove Cemetery.
Some of the old pines are still on the back of the lot, but practically all of the maples are gone.
Guy B. Andrews (1816-1898) was supervisor in 1855-1860, 1863-4. He had a general store about where the Modern Style Shop is located. He married Adeline Ralph, and their children were Ralph and Sue. Mrs. Andrews was a large woman, and very precise in manner. She had decided opinions. One day of each summer she took a folding chair, a small table with cloth, napkins, dishes and silver, and a lunch, and rowed her boat up the river as far as she cared to go, and spent the day by herself. Who could tell how many trials she forgot, and how much strength she stored up for days to come.
The daughter, Sue, is Mrs. Hawarth of. Chicago. Ralph married Phila King. Their children were Guy B. deceased, Sue (Mrs. Brush) and Marion (Mrs. Carl Hamlin.) Ralph was in a general store business for some time, and was postmaster at the Springs in 1897.
It is a coincidence that two grandchildren of Ralph Andrews, are now studying at the University of Vermont ,each having obtained a scholarship; Florence Ann Brush
is working for a master's degree while her cousin, Guy Andrews Hamlin, is a freshman.
Alexander Hamilton Andrews (1819-1901) was assessor in 1856; inspector of election in 1873; postmaster under Harrison in 1841; delegate to the first Republican convention held in the county in 1855; member of assembly from the Third District in 1867-1868; president of the board of trustees of Pine Grove Cemetery when it was organized. He was always called by his second name which was shortened to "Hamp."
A. H. Andrews married (1) Mary P. Miles. Their children were Helen, Kate (Mrs. Harrington of Canton) and Miles. He married (2) Mrs. Esther Thompson-Sawin whose son was J. Charles Andrews.
Helen Mary Andrews was born June 2, 1845. At the age of 16 she began to teach school and continued for eight years. She then entered Potsdam Normal School from which she was graduated in 1875. She taught in St. Albans, Vt. for some time, and then went south to teach in Tuskegee Colored Institute for five years.
Her next position was in Galena, Kan., where she remained three years before going to Oberlin, O. She returned to Massena to teach in the grades and then became assistant to Principal Charles Cobb. After that she taught in DesMoines, Iowa, until 1897 when she came home to care for her father.
An item dated June 27, 1897 states that "The trustees of the public library and reading room have secured rooms in the Martin Block for the library." This was a wooden building which stood on the river bank, about the location of the Friedman & Rosenbaumin store. Miss Andrews was the librarian and kept the room open to the public two afternoons a week. Later rooms were secured in the Phillips and Daly Block; and Miss Andrews gave three afternoons of her time to the work. For several years she drew no salary, but gave liberally of her time and energy to a cause which she recognized as worthy.
She won recognition from educators in both this state and others, but much as she loved teaching, she loved the library more. She may at times have had opinions at
variance with some of the readers, but she was always endeavoring to raise the taste and the standards of the readers. While she was ill with her last illness she was made honorary librarian and granted life salary, a recognition with greatly delighted her.
In 1901, she built the house on Andrews St., now owned by Leon Tracy. In 1904 she traded this house for one owned by Hiram Smith which stood at the present intersection on Andrews and Clark Sts., moved the house back and in 1905 opened Clark St and laid out the lots on four acres of land which she owned. Miss Andrews died in April, 1924.
Massena Observer
Friday, October 17, 1941
Its builder was John B, Andrews who came to Massena in 1810. He was born July 23, 1788, in Claremont, N. H., a son of Martin and Phoebe Bellefield Andrews. Martin was a native of Wethersfield, Conn., and Stiles' History of Wethersfield tells us that Martin Androus—the accepted spelling of early days — was a son of Daniel, born 1720, and at least four generations from the progenitor of the Connecticut family, John Androus.
The American Wing of the Metropitan Museum of Art in New York contains what is the finest collection of Colonial American furnishings that has been made. One of the rooms in this wing, the Newington Room, was taken from the home of John
Andrews, the first settler of Newington, which was originally a part of Wethersfield. Halsey and Tower in whose book, "The Homes of Our Ancestors" this room is
described, tell us that John Andrews' fortified house became a refuge for all those settling nearby. There the people could repair to sleep under protection. The
paneling in this room is noteworthy, and was characteristic of the architecture of the Connecticut Valley.
Perhaps memories of tales of this home, and others of his forefathers influenced John B. Andrews when he erected this stone house with its substantial and dignified appearance. The stone for the house was quarried from the bed of the Grasse River a short distance below the present site of the mica plant. Holes were drilled about 15 inches apart, they were plugged and wedges inserted. When the wedges were struck, blocks of stone about ten inches, thick were cut off. This was called the "plug and feather" method of quarrying. The stone was drawn to the homesite
by oxen owned by Jewett Bowers. The lot at that time included several lots to the west and the east of the present lot. All the lumber of the house was handhewn,
and the house was solidly constructed.
Mr. Andrews came to Massena in 1810, and nine years later was assessed for a house and lot, but it is not known where this house was located. The same assessment list shows that Orvis and Andrews had a store. This was not the Old
Stone Store as that was built in 1826. But Mr. Andrews was a leading merchant for many years, and he owned land in various parts of town.
He served the town as supervisor in 1822-4, 1832, 1842-44, 1851-52. He was town clerk in 1834, 1837, 1839; postmaster in 1836; trustee of School District 16 in 1839; in 1828 he was appointed to wait upon the court house commissioners
and represent the interests of the town. Before that time county buildings had been located in Ogdensburg, and in that year it was voted to locate them in Canton.
On the first of January, 1815, John B. Andrews married Susan Boynton, daughter of Stewart and Lydia Boynton, and a sister of Nancy (Mrs. U. H. Orvis), Electa
(Mrs. Benjamin Phillips) and Luke Boynton.
To this couple were born six children, Guy B., Alexander Hamilton, Morris B., Hannibal, Susan and John.
John B. Andrews and his wife both died in 1855 and were buried in a private burying ground on the bank of the river back of the house. Several years later the
bodies were moved to Pine Grove Cemetery.
Some of the old pines are still on the back of the lot, but practically all of the maples are gone.
Guy B. Andrews (1816-1898) was supervisor in 1855-1860, 1863-4. He had a general store about where the Modern Style Shop is located. He married Adeline Ralph, and their children were Ralph and Sue. Mrs. Andrews was a large woman, and very precise in manner. She had decided opinions. One day of each summer she took a folding chair, a small table with cloth, napkins, dishes and silver, and a lunch, and rowed her boat up the river as far as she cared to go, and spent the day by herself. Who could tell how many trials she forgot, and how much strength she stored up for days to come.
The daughter, Sue, is Mrs. Hawarth of. Chicago. Ralph married Phila King. Their children were Guy B. deceased, Sue (Mrs. Brush) and Marion (Mrs. Carl Hamlin.) Ralph was in a general store business for some time, and was postmaster at the Springs in 1897.
It is a coincidence that two grandchildren of Ralph Andrews, are now studying at the University of Vermont ,each having obtained a scholarship; Florence Ann Brush
is working for a master's degree while her cousin, Guy Andrews Hamlin, is a freshman.
Alexander Hamilton Andrews (1819-1901) was assessor in 1856; inspector of election in 1873; postmaster under Harrison in 1841; delegate to the first Republican convention held in the county in 1855; member of assembly from the Third District in 1867-1868; president of the board of trustees of Pine Grove Cemetery when it was organized. He was always called by his second name which was shortened to "Hamp."
A. H. Andrews married (1) Mary P. Miles. Their children were Helen, Kate (Mrs. Harrington of Canton) and Miles. He married (2) Mrs. Esther Thompson-Sawin whose son was J. Charles Andrews.
Helen Mary Andrews was born June 2, 1845. At the age of 16 she began to teach school and continued for eight years. She then entered Potsdam Normal School from which she was graduated in 1875. She taught in St. Albans, Vt. for some time, and then went south to teach in Tuskegee Colored Institute for five years.
Her next position was in Galena, Kan., where she remained three years before going to Oberlin, O. She returned to Massena to teach in the grades and then became assistant to Principal Charles Cobb. After that she taught in DesMoines, Iowa, until 1897 when she came home to care for her father.
An item dated June 27, 1897 states that "The trustees of the public library and reading room have secured rooms in the Martin Block for the library." This was a wooden building which stood on the river bank, about the location of the Friedman & Rosenbaumin store. Miss Andrews was the librarian and kept the room open to the public two afternoons a week. Later rooms were secured in the Phillips and Daly Block; and Miss Andrews gave three afternoons of her time to the work. For several years she drew no salary, but gave liberally of her time and energy to a cause which she recognized as worthy.
She won recognition from educators in both this state and others, but much as she loved teaching, she loved the library more. She may at times have had opinions at
variance with some of the readers, but she was always endeavoring to raise the taste and the standards of the readers. While she was ill with her last illness she was made honorary librarian and granted life salary, a recognition with greatly delighted her.
In 1901, she built the house on Andrews St., now owned by Leon Tracy. In 1904 she traded this house for one owned by Hiram Smith which stood at the present intersection on Andrews and Clark Sts., moved the house back and in 1905 opened Clark St and laid out the lots on four acres of land which she owned. Miss Andrews died in April, 1924.
Massena Observer
Friday, October 17, 1941
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