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  Warrensburgh Heritage Trail

Riverside Gallery

2 Elm Street*                                                                                                                                                          Photo/Map #133
Historically  known as “Sturdevan’s Bakery,” this contributing, c.1840 store arid residence displays mid-nineteenth century,  vernacular wood frame  design with later nineteenth century, Queen  Anne period modifications.   The 2-story structure  has a recessed  storefront entrance,   with  nineteenth  century  sash,  and  2-story  porch  with  turned  wood  columns.    Windows  have  1/1  sash.    Queen  Anne modifications  include a raised,  hip-over-gable  roof  with shingled  detailing,  original slate roof,  and  brick chimneys.    This  building continues  to communicate the nineteenth century commercial  development of the hamlet.
PictureView across old Osborne Bridge with Sturdevan Bakery, now Riverside Gallery, at left. (Warren County DPW collection)
Riverside Gallery, located on the edge of the Schroon River at 3 Elm Street, is a picture-framing, decorating accessory and gift shop.  It was opened by Lenore Smith on January 1, 1977, following her retirement from New York Telephone the previous month.  Wilford J. (Woody) and Lenore Smith purchased the building in 1976.  Riverside Gallery is currently operated by Mrs. Smith's grandson, MacLaren Richards.  The building has a long history.  Built before 1845, Elias Pattison sold the building to Burhans & Gray in that year.  It was owned consecutively by Edna Landon, Halsey Herrick and Eli H. Pasco before being sold, in 1918, to James Sturdevan, who operated the Sturdevan Bakery there.  Loran Hoffman, Sturdevan's son-in-law continued as Queen Village Bakery until 1972.  Several others owned the building until 1976, when the Smiths bought it.


PictureSturdevan's Bakery, c.1910, now Riverside Gallery. (Lenore Smith collection)
Sturdevan's Bakery moved to the lower end of Elm Street, where Riverside Gallery is currently located.  From here he continued his deliveries throughout the area.  He died on July 10, 1939 at age seventy-four.  James was originally from Corinth and was married to Nettie Aldrich.  Their daughter, Gertrude, married Loran Hoffman and they had a son, William.  Gertrude died at childbirth in 1928.  Loran subsequently married Ida Mae Nestle in 1931.  After James Stur-devan's death in 1939, Loran and Ida Mae took over the bakery business and renamed it Queen Village Bakery.  Loran operated the bakery until 1972.  



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