Corporal Hyde House
at Genesee Country Village, & Museum
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c. 1870 |
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Octagon |
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Original location: |
Friendship, NY |
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Original owner: |
Corporal Hyde |
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Original metal fence |
Octagon style house |
Italianate brackets |
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Entrance hall - Italianate newel post and balustrade |
Parlor |
Rococo Revival parlor center table |
Living room |
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Detail from previous photo |
Rococo Revival style sofa |
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Renaissance Revival style |
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Marble fireplace (door missing) |
Marble fireplace detail |
When Corporal Hyde returned to Friendship, New York after the Civil War, he briefly resumed farming; acquired an interest in a shingle mill; a young wife; and a new octagonal house. He and his wife shortly joined a spiritualist group.
Hyde later became a homeopathic physician. Julia, an accomplished musician and an ordained Methodist minister, held seances (it was said) in her parlor. When Julia died within two days of her husband, the belief even among sensible people arose that their departed spirits frequented the old, oddly-shaped house.-- Genesee Country Village, by Stuart Bolger, 1993
