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“The Farmers’ Hotel is being improved by the application of paint and paper.” –The Canajoharie Radii, February 26, 1891
David Longshore was born in Canajoharie in 1854, and attended public school until the age of twelve, when he began working as a bell boy at the Hamilton Hotel in nearby Sharon Springs. He worked there for about five years before returning to school, and then purchasing the Farmers’ Hotel in Canajoharie in 1885. According to the 1900 Federal Census, there were eight “boarders” at the hotel who were employed as cabinet makers, stone cutter, carpenter, house painter or “gentleman.”
The railroad tracks served the West Shore Railroad, which opened in 1883 in Canajoharie. The tracks were abandoned in 1981, but the bridge over Canajoharie Creek is now part of the Earie Canalway trail.
Now Jim’s Irish Harbor Pub, this building survives today and is quite recognizable. It is located at 20 Little Mohawk Street, across from a small park.
Exhibition History"Fritz Vogt: A Sense of Place," Arkell Museum, Canajoharie, NY, May 29, 2021 - December 30, 2021
Artist
Fritz G. Vogt
(c. 1841 - 1900)
Farmers Hotel, David Longshore, Proprietor, Canajoharie, Montgomery Co., N.Y.
Date1898
DimensionsSight: 25 1/2 × 39 in. (64.8 × 99.1 cm)
Object numberN0040.2015L(36)
Credit LineCollection of Frank S. Tosto
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label Text“The New arrangements at the “Longshore” will add very much to the convenience of that cheerful hotel.” – The Canajoharie Radii, April 26, 1888“The Farmers’ Hotel is being improved by the application of paint and paper.” –The Canajoharie Radii, February 26, 1891
David Longshore was born in Canajoharie in 1854, and attended public school until the age of twelve, when he began working as a bell boy at the Hamilton Hotel in nearby Sharon Springs. He worked there for about five years before returning to school, and then purchasing the Farmers’ Hotel in Canajoharie in 1885. According to the 1900 Federal Census, there were eight “boarders” at the hotel who were employed as cabinet makers, stone cutter, carpenter, house painter or “gentleman.”
The railroad tracks served the West Shore Railroad, which opened in 1883 in Canajoharie. The tracks were abandoned in 1981, but the bridge over Canajoharie Creek is now part of the Earie Canalway trail.
Now Jim’s Irish Harbor Pub, this building survives today and is quite recognizable. It is located at 20 Little Mohawk Street, across from a small park.
Exhibition History"Fritz Vogt: A Sense of Place," Arkell Museum, Canajoharie, NY, May 29, 2021 - December 30, 2021
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