Morris, New York

The card reads
Champions of Centrel New York 1905

Their status as Champions has no known basis in fact. Note that it was not printed on the card, but added sometime after printing. The word Centrel is not correctly spelled.

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Information about the team shared by baseball researcher Anthony Kissel

The Kenyon House about 1900. The auto in the photo might be the earliest image we have of a car visiting Morris.

With new owners the Kenyon House became known as Gage's Block.

This postcard has a 1909 postmark. You can read the back by clicking on the link at the bottom of the page.

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Back of the card has these notes:

Erected 1932; Cost $330,000.
Accomodates 500 students;
Front pillars are Indiana Limestone; Entire building is
of fireproof construction,

Principal, Peter A. Etienne

An undated unused postcard showing the Morris High School. It was built in 1894 and replaced in 1932 with the Lewis Rutherfurd Morris Central School.

The newspaper page attached below reports that Frank Churchill hauled the new heating apparatus to the school from Mt. Upton. It weighed 9,000 lbs.