Concord stable, 1935

Collection Name:

George W. Perry Scrapbooks

Title:

Concord stable, 1935

Creator:

Perry, George W., 1891-1971

Creator Role:

Collector

Accession / Call Number:

1974.045

Object ID:

1974.045.32.003

Date:

1935

Type of Material:

graphic material

Physical Description:

1 photograph

Language:

English

Scope and Content:

Photographic print of a stable in Concord, NH, taken in 1935. The caption states, "Razed in 1936 October 12 1935. Concord's Last 'Stable' Faces Wreckers Last Concord Stable to be only memory, Mrs Corser will sell old sleighs and last 'Public' Horses; Cobwebbed Hose Wagon, 'Kearsarge 2,' Among relics in the barn. Mrs Rubie J. Corser, will give up a business her husband carried on from the old Eagle stables, the American House stables and the building on Bridge street for nearly 30 years. The state purchased the Corser stable site, for the state garage. Mr. Corser died in 1933, his stables provided the six and four horse barges to take the boys from St. Paul's school, from the time the ice went out of Long Pond until June out to rowing pra practice. This custom was firmly established tradition with the school. In 1918, when the Eagle stables became the Eagle garage, Mr. Corser sold out the entire busi-ness and went to Malden, Mass., where for two years he was engaged in the shoe manufacturing trade. In 1920 he returned to Concordand bought the American House stables from J.A.Clark, continuing there until 1926. He purchased the Stickney property on Bridge street in 1924 from Princess Aymon de Faucigny Lucinge of Ecommoy, France the former Carolyn Foster of Rhode Island, who married Joseph Stickney of Concord builder of the Mount Washington hotel. A de-crease in the use of horses for pleasurer and work so marked that Mrs Corser, who took over and managed her husbands business after he died in 1933, had since that time kept only four saddled horses and six boarders. In early days Mr. Corser boarded horses for work in addition he kept extra teams for the fire department, eight horses for the American Express, nine for delivering for Lyster Brothers and two for Swift and Company. Reminder of the roaring old horse-drawn fire engines with sparks belching from their smokestacks, where was on this pro-perty a dusty hose wagon that used to operate out of the central station on Warren street, on its side was inscribed 'Kearsarge 2' while under the driver's seat rand the legend 'Pro Bono Publico', directly over the name of the maker, the Abbot Downing company. The name 'Kearsarge' refers back to about 1920 when engine companies were called by such names as 'Eagle' and "Good-well instead of engine 1 and 6."

Subjects:

Stables , Automobiles , Signs and signboards

Locations:

Concord, NH

People:

Perry, George W., 1891-1971

Terms of Use:

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Credit Line:

Gift of May Nutter.

Restrictions:

Available for research.

Level Description:

Item

Box Number:

8