If Walls Could Talk

Dry Goods Store - North Creek, NY - October 2005

I liked how the rusted corrugated tin roof contrasted with the weather beaten, water stained siding and the green vegetation. The faded lettering on the side of the building tells a story of the the once vital past of this Addirondak community. North Creek holds an important part in the history of the United States. It is where, on September 14, 1901, Vice President Theodore Roosevelt received a telegram announcing that President McKinley had succummed to wounds he received eight days earlier when he was shot by an annarchist at the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, NY. The new President boarded a special train to take him from here to Buffalo, NY where he was officially sworn in.