Whitcomb’s Garage
Feb 24, 2022
4 minutes
by Lisa Bramen
photographs by Ben Stechschulte*
*except where noted
IN OCTOBER 1926, A FIRE ERUPTED IN THE harness room of George Gladd’s Whallonsburg general store. Within minutes the flames jumped to Ralph Lobdell’s gristmill next door, and, according to the Adirondack Record–Elizabethtown Post, “for a time the garage of Gordon Whitcomb near the mill was threatened, but the tin roof on the building and the work of the bucket brigade saved it from going up in smoke.”
Nearly a century later, the townsfolk of this Champlain Valley hamlet once again came to the garage’s rescue, this time from the slow burn of decay. After sitting vacant for years, a team of volunteers rehabbed the Whitcomb’s building to house artisan-based businesses, a
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