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FRPT MEMORIAL LIB
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Landmark status for Freeport Historical Museum
by Linda Delmonico Prussen
A public hearing was held following
the village Board of Trustees meeting
July 9 to determine if the Freeport
Historical Museum at 350 South Main
Street could be given landmark status.
The room was polled and with a vote
of 24 in favor and only two opposed
landmark status was granted. Prior to the
vote Cynthia Krieg, president and cura-tor
and Regina Feeney, archivist, both
trustees of the museum recounted the
landmark's lively history.
Ms. Feeney said, "About 1907, Edith
Gertrude Selene came to Freeport.
Born in England, Miss Selene was a
noted Egyptologist and artist. Soon
after she purchased a home in Freeport,
she married Dr. Thomas Horace Evans
who was a graduate of the University of
Pennsylvania. Dr. Evans was a medical
doctor, professor of anatomy, an author,
poet, and musician, who just happened
to speak six languages.
Though Freeport had humble begin-nings,
over the years it attracted success-ful
citizens from Manhattan and
Brooklyn. But what makes the Evanses
arrival in Freeport so interesting is their
choice of neighborhood.
Instead of purchasing a home in a
tony section of the village like Ocean
Avenue, the Evanses decided to live on
South Main Street. This area of Freeport
is the oldest section of the village and
had been home to fishermen and bay-men
for generations. Dr. and Mrs.
Evans decided to call a modest one and
a half story baymen's cottage, across the
street from the Freeport River, home. It
is said that Mrs. Evans had suffered
from health issues and wanted to be near
the fresh salt air.
"Having lived in New York City, Dr.
and Mrs. Evans did not expect to
become close to the residents of the
adjoining properties. Their plan was to
live in Freeport in the winter and sum-mer
in Europe."
The story went on to describe the
Evanses' often contentious relationship
with their many neighbors and even the
early Freeport board, as Ms. Feeney said
they were once thrown out of a village
meeting. Some of the bumps in the road
the Evanses experienced before peace-fully
co-existing with their neighbors
were: a disagreement over a path on
their land, one of their motorboats mys-teriously
sank, Mr. Evans was involved
in two physical altercations and some-one
tried to burn down their house.
As the years passed however, a detente
was achieved on South Main Street and
in 1948, Mrs. Evans died in her home.
Her husband died there in 1961. Shortly
thereafter the Historical Society obtained
the home through his estate.
For more information on the Historical
Society log onto its website at: http://
www.freeporthistorymuseum.org/home.php.
(continued on page 3)
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Object Description
| Rating | |
| Title | 2012-07-12 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within the Village of Freeport and Baldwin. |
| Creator | Linda Toscano |
| Publisher | L & M Publications, Inc. |
| Contributors | Scanned by Imaging & Microfilm Access, Inc. (Bohemia, NY 11716) |
| Date | 2012 |
| Type | Periodical |
| Format | |
| Source | Freeport Memorial Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
| Rights | This digital image may be freely used for educational uses, as long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this image is permitted without written permission of the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 W. Merrick Road, Freeport, NY 11520 or email: frreference@freeportlibrary.info |
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