c.1880
Hunt House

Very Early Queen Anne Style
General Store with Barn
and Carriage House

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The North Country Arts Center held its Grand Opening at the Sit’n Bull Ranch on October 26, 1971.  In following years the organization would provide opportunities for local artists and artisans to display their talents and skills to the public.  It sponsored low-cost workshops for youth and adults, from guitar lessons, Hawaiian dancing and painting to home repair and other crafts.  Co-directors Martha Strodel and Linda Trinkaus ran the center.  The group originally occupied a storefront next to the A&P (now the Health Center) and then moved in 1975 to 3927 Main Street (the former Hunt House) across from the current Post Office.  This move allowed the Arts Center more space to operate, with areas on the second floor for workshops, have a craft store, and even a restaurant.  In 1976, under a new directorship, the Arts Center was moved to Glens Falls.

The Hunt House
Built before 1876, by John G. Hunt, who came to Warrensburgh in 1871.  Mr. Hunt conducted a wholesale and retail general hardware store for many years.  The barn and carriage house are still standing.  
In the early 1900's, Mr. Hunt increased his property holding by purchasing several lots in the "Fairlawn Tract" - a tract of land, approximately ten acres, between Main, Hudson and fourth Street, owned by Miss Lizzie Woodward.  In March, 1905, the property was purchased by a Boston capitalist through the firm of S. H. Vanderwerker of Glens Falls, to be sub-divided into fifty lots and resold.  By June, of the same year, ten of the lots had been sold to a building contractor intending to construct the same number of houses.  The remaining forty lots were to be auctioned off.