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The winners of the 2006
Preservation Grant
award are
Michael and Holly Pardi of 88 N. Main Street in Windsor Locks.
The Pardi's will be receiving a "face lift" to their home in the form of a landscaping
project to be completed by local Boy Scout Troop 261.
The Pardi home was built in the 1880's and is located on a highly visible corner.
We are hoping the project will be completed by early November.
If you wish to make donations to aid in purchasing landscaping items,
please contact Barbara at (860) 798-5376.
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Another
Fundraiser
Success!
A Holiday Craft Fair
and Bake Sale
was held on Sunday, November 12
at the Windsor Locks Town Hall,
Windsor Locks, CT.
Thank you for all your support!
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Amherst Railway Society
Every January the Society presents its annual "Big Railroad Hobby Show" at the Eastern States Exposition Fairgrounds (The Big E) in West Springfield, MA. This show has become the biggest railroad show in the Northeast!
See you this year on
Sat, Jan 27th 9-5pm
and
Sun, Jan 28th 10-5pm!
The Windsor Locks Preservation Association has a booth! Come visit us during the show and buy some gifts for your friends and family!
We are still looking for volunteers to help staff the booth during the show! To volunteer contact Barbara at 860-798-5376.
Proceeds from the show are used to promote interest in railroads.
Donations have been made to various railroad museums, historical societies, restoration projects (including the Windsor Locks Preservation Association and our Save The Train Station Project!) and scholarship funds. Organizations that have received donations include: the Fall River and Old Colony Museum, the 470 Club's Boston and Maine diesel locomotive restoration project, the Boston and Maine Historical Society, the Chester Foundation Station Project, the Wiscasset Waterville and Farmington Building and Car Fund as well as trolley museums in Shelburne Falls, MA, Warehouse Point, CT, Branford, CT and Kennebunk, ME.
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Windsor Locks Preservation Association, Inc.
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"We're on the Right Track!"
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Passenger Depot, Windsor Locks, CT December 2005
Join us for our NEXT
FUNDRAISING EVENT:
PLEASE NOTE THE RAIN DATE CHANGE:
The 3rd Annual Preservation Flea Market was scheduled to be held on Saturday, May 19 from 8am - 2pm
at the Windsor Locks Town Hall, 50 Church Street in Windsor Locks.
Due to the weather, this event has been postponed and rescheduled for Saturday, May 26th
We have almost 50 vendor spaces rented out to different vendors/tag salers!
We have a HUGE variety of items including antiques, collectibles, rugs, furniture, household items, Christmas,
bicycles, a pedestal sink, and MORE! There is something for everyone and all items have been donated to
help us raise funds for the Train Station.
We will also be raffling off a Cracker Barrel Gift Card for a complete meal for 2.
Please come out and enjoy a fun day with us!!!
Spaces are still available for $15.00. Please contact Martha at 860-623-4234 if you would like to rent one.
St Mary's Church will be hosting it's Annual Plant Sale the same day!
We encourage everyone to attend both of these events!
For more info, please call Martha or Barbara at (860) 798-5376.
Saturday, May 264, 2007
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Windsor Locks VFW Hall
If YOU want to help save the train station,
and have some fun,
Come and join us!
On Sunday March 4, 2007, the Windsor Locks Preservation Association
will host a Wine Tasting and Silent Auction to benefit Saving the Historic
Windsor Locks Train Station.
The event will be held at
the VFW Hall in Windsor Locks from 1pm - 4pm.
Tickets are $25.00 per person.
There are some great items to bid on as well as tasting the wonderful wine, snacks and fun.
Come out, bring a friend and enjoy the afternoon with us!
For more info and to purchase your ticket,
please call Barbara Carlson at 860-654-1955.
I hope to see you at this, our next fundraising event
on Sunday, March 4th at 1:00 pm.
Please come out and show your support!
Wayne Gannaway
President, Windsor Locks Preservation Association
...Our October fundraiser was a wonderful success!
If you missed it, we had a wonderful time!
AND, what a beautiful house!
Thank you to our gracious hosts
Martha Jarvis
(and her husband!)
Tour of the "Castle House"
Friday, October 13, 2006
18 Maple Avenue, Windsor Locks, CT
TICKETS WERE ONLY $10.00
FOR MORE INFORMATION
CALL MARTHA AT
860-623-4234
THIS CANDLELIGHT TOUR FEATURES
WLPA's Vice President, Mickey Danyluk speaking on the home's vast history and its importance to the town.
. . . AND CAKE, WARM CIDER AND PUNCH WILL BE SERVED!
Proceeds benefit the Windsor Locks Preservation's "Let's Save the Windsor Locks Train Station Committee" effort.
From courant.com
'The Castle' Has Storied Past
October 10, 2006
By LYNN DOAN Courant Staff Writer
WINDSOR LOCKS -- Half-hidden behind a layer of trees and bushes off Maple Avenue lies one of the largest and most historically rich homes in Windsor Locks.
Dubbed "The Castle" by old-timers, the 166-year-old mansion was built by a prominent railroad tycoon and once belonged to a member of the town's first board of selectmen. It was later auctioned off to a doctor whose housekeeper died on the Titanic. And for years, it served as a boarding house.
On Friday, it will be the site of a Candlelight Tour led by the Windsor Locks Preservation Association.
"People will have the rare opportunity to cross the threshold of a Windsor Locks landmark," said Mickey Danyluk, a local historian and the group's vice president. "I think they will find the dark history of the house most attractive.
"When the 26-room house belonged to Dr. Sidney R. Burnap, a surgeon and financier, the 100-acre estate named Maple Hill became a popular venue for town picnics and socials, Danyluk said. But in 1912, a death shook the household.
Burnap's brother-in-law, Alfred Woods Converse, a highly esteemed man who served as both the town's postmaster and manager of the Windsor Locks Bank, died in the house in an apparent suicide. Two weeks after his death, Windsor Locks Bank officials confirmed that $185,000 had been stolen from the safe, local newspapers reported.
The family's housekeeper, Jane Carr, had left for Ireland the year before on family business, but she boarded the Titanic after hearing the news and was lost at sea.
When the Burnaps left Maple Hill, the land was subdivided and put up for auction. The white-trimmed brick mansion may still stand, but its spacious grassland has since been turned into one- and two-story homes.
Behind the Victorian walls of the four-story mansion, the furniture of previous owners has been refurbished and preserved by Martha and Dennis Jarvis, who bought the house four years ago for $333,000. The couple removed carpeting to expose the home's original hardwood floors and knocked down the parlor ceiling to reveal elaborate, ivory-colored carvings.
"I had no idea that was going to be there," said Dennis Jarvis, pointing at the carvings during a recent walk through the home.
Jarvis, who is a retired manager for CIGNA HealthCare, said he and his wife have made a hobby of refurbishing homes, with Maple Hill being their third fix-up. They plan on selling the house in five to six years.
"We like fixing stuff up, so once it's all done, it's just maintenance," Jarvis said. "It's kind of too big for us anyway. Sometimes, I'll think about going to the game room on the third floor, but it's such a long walk."
Tickets for the tour, which begins at 7 p.m. Friday (10/13), are $10 a person and will benefit the Let's Save the Windsor Locks Train Station Committee. Those interested can call Martha Jarvis at 860-623-4234.
For more information about this article contact Lynn Doan at ldoan@courant.com. Copyright 2006, Hartford Courant
Without preservation, the history of our past will be lost forever!
Support your local preservation organization!
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Join The Effort To Save The Windsor Locks Train Station!
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UPCOMING
EVENTS
Jan 9
Tues 7:30 pm
SPECIAL
TOWN MEETING
Windsor Locks
Town Hall
If YOU
want to save the train station, you need to attend this town meeting!
The Town of Windsor Locks has received a Small Town Economic Assistance Program (STEAP)
grant for funding towards the development of the 1875 train station.
We have recently learned that the Town must get approval from town voters at a town meeting to accept this state funding.
This is state funding, not local funding, specifically for the train station and approved by Governor Jodi Rell and the state bonding commission.
(The Town also received STEAP grant funding for Pesci Park and the seniors center.)
SEE YOU THERE
ON JAN 9TH
AT 7:30 PM!
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Jan 27th
Sat 9-5pm
and
Jan 28th
Sun 10-5pm
The Amherst Railway Society
presents its annual "Big Railroad Hobby Show" at the Eastern States Exposition Fairgrounds (The Big E) in West Springfield, MA.
This show has become the biggest railroad show in the Northeast!
The Windsor Locks Preservation Association will have a booth again this year!
Come visit us during the show and buy some gifts for your friends and family!
We are still looking for volunteers to help staff the booth during the show! To volunteer contact Barbara at 860-798-5376.
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Annual Business
Meeting
and Officer Elections
were held on
Thursday
October 19, 2006
6:30pm
Windsor Locks Public Library
Barbara Schley, President and Mickey Danyluk, Vice President were unable to run for office again this year as those terms are limited to 2 years.
Newly elected
officers are:
Wayne Gannaway
President
Martha Jarvis
Vice President
Barbara Carlson
Secretary/Treasurer
Mickey Danluk
Historian
Mark Glazier
Trustee
Please join with Mickey and I in welcoming them on board!
Barbara Schley,
President
MAY IS
PRESERVATION
MONTH
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Windsor Locks
Incorporated May 30, 1854, the town was formerly the Pine Meadow district of Windsor.
The Windsor Locks Canal was completed in 1829.
The first town meeting was held July 3, 1854.
Rail transportation was inaugurated in 1844.
Trolley service began in 1904.
Public buses first operated June 24, 1924.
Bradley Field was opened as a military airbase in 1941.
Commercial airlines using the facility have serve this area since 1947.
It is now Bradley International Airport.
Ella T. Grasso of Windsor Locks was elected first woman governor of
Connecticut in November 1974.
This information was taken from the sign located on Main Street at Spring Street
across from the Train Station.
Erected May 30, 1976 by the Windsor Locks American Revolution Bicentennial Commission,
the Windsor Locks Historical Society and the Connecticut Historical Commission.
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