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Summer guide 2019 MESSENGER POST MEDIA Finger Lakes Region Summer Guide to events and getaways Advertising supplement to Messenger Post Media for the week of May Daily Messenger ? The Post serving Farmington and Victor ? Wayne Post ? Wayne County Pennysav

MESSENGER POST MEDIA Finger Lakes Region Summer Guide to events and getaways Advertising supplement to Messenger Post Media for the week of May Daily Messenger ? The Post serving Farmington and Victor ? Wayne Post ? Wayne County Pennysaver CMESSENGER POST MEDIA ? SUMMER GUIDE ? PAGE CMESSENGER POST MEDIA ? SUMMER GUIDE ? PAGE GRANGER HOMESTEAD A RICH AND VIBRANT HISTORY A long and proud history stands tall in the City of Canandaigua where four generations of family made their mark on a community the culture and the land The Granger Homestead complete with historical mansion Carriage Museum and other historic outbuildings tells the story of Gideon Granger and his legacy in the area dating back to BY DEBORAH BLACKWELL MESSENGER POST MEDIA Gideon Granger ? s political in uence began much earlier than his arrival in Canandaigua Born in Su ?eld Conn in Granger ? s life took form there with his active role in state politics during the American Revolution and Constitutional Convention He was appointed the fourth United States Postmaster General under President Thomas Je ?erson in and continued to serve under President James Madison until Granger resigned from his o ?ce to administer the land tracts he had acquired further to the west and moved to Canandaigua to build a homestead According to Granger Homestead notes the home was to be ??unrivaled ? by any other in the nation The three-story Federal-style wood-framed home was constructed in A wing was added in nearly years after Granger ? s death in The -square-foot mansion faces west on North Main Street and the design is similar to homes built by the French architect Joseph-Jacques Ramée Thomas Je ?erson may have helped with its design according to the Granger Homestead Society The Federal-style architecture was common in America during the period from - and throughout the years after its resurrection several renovations including an elaborate two-story cast iron porch added around the s enhanced the home ? s beauty and its use Mindwell Granger wife of Gideon ensured that the home was run e ?ciently while her husband was away in Washington often for months at a time The Granger ? s life together on the homestead was short-lived from - but after Granger ? s death their son Francis a U S Senator who also twice ran for governor and his wife Cornelia moved into the home Shortly thereafter Cornelia died during childbirth in so Mindwell raised her two grandchildren on the homestead until her death in After Mindwell ? s passing Francis invited his son Gideon II his wife Isaphine and their two daughters to move into the home They lived on the homestead until when Francis suddenly died of unknown causes only to be followed eight days later by Gideon II ? s death from internal gout Plagued by two instances of death Isaphine decided to leave the mansion with her two children Antoinette and Isaphine and moved into a nearby cottage The homestead eventually