Frontier House - Lewiston, NY
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Rayman
N 43° 10.374 W 079° 02.541
17T E 659118 N 4781875
The Frontier House was once a popular place to stay and dine in the small Village of Lewiston, NY.
Waymark Code: WM1VV2
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 07/16/2007
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The following is an excerpt from
New York: A Guide to the Empire State in Tour 26 (NY Route 104):
The FRONTIER HOUSE, Center St., a large, gray stone three-story building, was erected in 1824; the porch was added in the late 1830's. Here, according to tradition, James Fenimore Cooper wrote The Spy. William Morgan, who planned to publish secrets of the Masonic order, was seen by non-Masons for the last time at this inn on September 13, 1826.
The "Morgan Affair" still remains one of the most bizzare unsolved cases in American history to this day. He was kidnapped in nearby Batavia, NY and taken to Lewiston by stagecoach and put in another carriage behind the Frontier House. Morgan was never seen again. Rumor has it he was taken to Fort Niagara, shackled, and thrown off a boat in the middle of the Niagara River.
The Frontier House has remained open throughout the years as some type of restaurant. The most recent tenant was a McDonald's, the only McDonald's in the country to be located in a building on the National Register of Historic Places. However they moved out in December 2004 and it has remained vacant since. Efforts are underway to establish a culinary school on the first floor of the building.