Monday, November 23, 2020
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November 2020 Newsletter
Thank you!
We would like to take a moment to thank all of our many
guests, visitors and members who supported the Bayport Blue Point
Heritage Association throughout this season. We had many new and
returning guests that toured Meadow Croft during the past 4 months.
Folks also enjoyed the wonderful trails and property as well. We
appreciate your interest in local history and are hoping that next year,
we can return with more great events for our community. In the
meantime, please stay safe and healthy this fall and winter season.
Thank you!
Finding St. Nick
A family fun event for all! Starting at the end of
November, be on the lookout for posters from the BBPHA with pictures of
St. Nick at Meadow Croft on them. Each poster will have a QR code on
them to scan that will bring you to a page on our website with Christmas
Trivia on it. From there, you can check out the rest of our webpage. We
encourage you to take a selfie with the poster and tag us on Social
Media. #BBPHA Hope you can play along! Keep your eyes out for those
posters all around our towns! Find St. NIck!
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The Blue Point Bible Church's connection to Bayport Avenue
No doubt, you have passed the Blue Point Bible Church on
Blue Point Avenue many times either going to the dock, getting a bagel
and a coffee at the deli or leaving the library heading west on Madison
street. This stately brick church replaced the original wooden church
which was located immediately south of the present-day Blue Point Ave.
Elementary School building. It was built between 1930 and 1931. The
cornerstone was laid on October 25, 1930 and was finally dedicated on
June 28, 1931. The steeple rises to a height of 75 feet. The building is
made entirely of brick. This is how the church is interestingly
connected to a small brick cape on Bayport Avenue- the bricks.
* Facts about the church taken from Gene Horton's book, "Blue Point Then and Now."
Among the crew of engineers and masons who built the church was a gentleman by the name of Hiram Darrow. When Mr. Darrow and his crew were hired to build the brick church in 1930, he purchased a home at #82 Bayport Avenue (my house currently). At that time, the house sat on two parcels of land each approximately half an acre. The vacant parcel to the south was a small farmed lot in earlier days owned by Francis and Charlotte Edwards. Mr. Darrow moved into the home with his wife and young daughter Virginia, a BBP High School graduate. At some time after the brick church was completed in 1930, Mr. Darrow had a notion to build a small brick Cape Cod style house on the vacant lot next to his house. He did, in fact, build that brick Cape currently #76 Bayport Ave. He dismantled a barn in the yard behind the house at #82 next door and used the studs and rafters to build the shell of his new brick Cape home next door. Darrow completed the brick Cape home sometime in the 1940's. He moved his family into the new brick home and rented his home next door, later selling that home in 1954. Mr. Darrow, a mason and builder, built the church and his own home at #76 Bayport Avenue both made of bricks.
I have created an amusing fictional tale that while working on the Blue Point Bible Church Darrow took a few bricks home each day in his lunch pail until he had enough bricks to build himself a house on his vacant land. So, that is the connection between the Blue Point Bible Church and #76 Bayport Avenue (pictured below), both built by Hiram Darrow.
~ Written by John Amato
