Outline history of Utica and vicinity . than twenty-five years, wasplanned and the foundation laid by Judge Morris S. Millerin 1820. His son, Rutger B. Miller, completed it about1830. It was called at the time Millers Folly, so re-mote was it from all neighbors. A carriage seen crossingJohn Street Bridge was known to be coming to TheHill, as there was no other house to which to go. Mrs. Thomas Walker lived here for many years. Sen-ator Conkling entertained here many eminent guests,among them Generals Grant, Sherman, and Hooker, in1875. Among the once famous mansions which have lost thei
Outline history of Utica and vicinity . than twenty-five years, wasplanned and the foundation laid by Judge Morris S. Millerin 1820. His son, Rutger B. Miller, completed it about1830. It was called at the time Millers Folly, so re-mote was it from all neighbors. A carriage seen crossingJohn Street Bridge was known to be coming to TheHill, as there was no other house to which to go. Mrs. Thomas Walker lived here for many years. Sen-ator Conkling entertained here many eminent guests,among them Generals Grant, Sherman, and Hooker, in1875. Among the once famous mansions which have lost theirearly dignity is that of Jeremiah Van Rensselaer, builtabout 1800. It stood on the east side of Genesee Streetamid beautiful grounds, which included nearly the wholespace now bounded by Devereux, Genesee, Blandina, andCharlotte streets. The house is still standing on the southside of Devereux Street, about midway between Geneseeand Charlotte. It has been turned around and now facesDevereux Street. Ibid. Pioneers, p237- Ibid., p. f- OLD BUILDINGS. 6$ In I7Q4, Indent Apollos Cooper Came to Utica and built ^^ J ^ ^ /- • , ? , 1 Pioneers, p. 45. a house on Whitesboro Street, near Liberty, in which he sketch of oidlived until his death, in 1839. The house and grounds ^*^*are now used as a summer garden. Miss Millers Sketch of Old Utica gives many inter-esting details of the architecture and decorations of thesedwellings, as well as of the gardens around them and thelife within. Of the early church buildings, that of Trinity (com-pleted 1810. See II.), retains its beauty and its sacredcharacter ; others, however, have been turned to inferioruses. The WclsJi Baptist Church (See II.), a wooden structure built in 1806 near the place where the Hotel Street bridge now stands, was moved when the canal was opened to the °°^^^ p- ^ 134. site of the present church on Broadwa}^ a little north of ThomasHis- tory of Welsh Liberty Street. In 1840, when the new church was erect-of Ameri
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