THE HOUSES THEY LIVED IN
OSTRANDER HOUSE IN ALEXANDRIA
Plain though this old stone house is, there is nevertheless something intriguing about its simplicity to the traveler over the road that runs from Theresa through Redwood and Plessis to Alexandria Bay. The story about this house might prove exceedingly interesting if it were known. For the past several years it has been owned by Fred Kavanaugh, but it is most familiarly known as the Ostrander place, having been owned and occupied for a number of years by Byron Ostrander, a prominent man of Plessis, near which community the house stands. Back in Civil War times it was owned by A. Parker and before that by D.H. Nellis. But undoubtedly built well over 100 years ago, its original history is not known. It is believed by some to have been a tavern, for it contains a room that has all the earmarks of having been a tap-room and another room, which has no windows, which was probably a wine cellar. Perhaps the Le Rays and many other distinguished guests passing through Theresa and Plessis to Alexandria Bay, the names of which places had a LeRay family significance, stopped at this old low-set hostelry many times.--David F. Lane
From the Watertown Daily Times, courtesy of their library, Old Houses of the North Country, No. 24. Photo and caption by David F. Lane
Nan Dixon
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