{"id":605,"date":"2010-08-06T20:41:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T20:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=605"},"modified":"2010-08-06T20:41:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T20:41:23","slug":"cushmans-store-outside-and-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2010\/08\/06\/cushmans-store-outside-and-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Cushman’s Store – Outside and In"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"George<\/a>
George E. Cushman's Store, circa 1900<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The house at 196 Main Street, partially visible on the left in the photo above, stands on land purchased in 1785 by David Beal, and was probably built around then.\u00a0 The store wing was added in 1794.\u00a0 Beal’s son, David Jr., then his son-in-law Horace Collamore ran the store until Henry Hunt and his son-in-law Azel Sampson bought the store and house.\u00a0 George E. Cushman started as Sampson’s assistant but eventually took over. He ran the store in this annex until it was demolished by Mrs. Sampson in 1902. Cushman’s horse-drawn delivery wagons were featured in an earlier post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s the inside, and a word or two from Emily Drew:<\/p>\n

\"Hat<\/a>
Hat shop in the Old Country Store, circa 1900<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

[The lantern slide above] shows the “hat shop”, medicine drawers, “office” niche and way into the Sampson house where shoes were on sale. A door opened from this (south) end of the main store into the shoe store, the north front rooms of Mrs. Sampson’s house.<\/p>\n

\"Proprietor<\/a>
Proprietor and clerks at the Old Country Store, circa 1900<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Perhaps more varied in goods offered for sale in country stores but typical of the sort of store, the forerunner of our modern department stores.\u00a0 Shown left to right: George E. Cushman, owner and proprietor; in background, Ezra S. Wright, clerk; on settee John Mange, helper and store-boy, who lived at #39 [Main St.]. Between Mr. Cushman and Mr. Wright is the Post-office with its boxes into which mail for the neighborhood was distributed. When the government office was moved to Stony Brook, Mr. Cushman, at the request of the neighborhood, maintained a branch office.<\/p>\n

Sources: Emily Drew’s card file<\/a>; Major Bradford’s Town<\/em> by Doris Johnson Melville (Town of Kingston: 1976).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The house at 196 Main Street, partially visible on the left in the photo above, stands on land purchased in 1785 by David Beal, and was probably built around then.\u00a0 The store wing was added in 1794.\u00a0 Beal’s son, David Jr., then his son-in-law Horace Collamore ran the store until Henry Hunt and his son-in-law … <\/p>\n

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