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Family forms firm to help keep Keuka property By GARTH WADE HAMMONDSPORT Chauncey and Jane Brown aren't rich, but they gave away nearly $500,000 worth of prime Keuka Lake property to help keep it in the family. The result is a unique type of family corporation that now owns Rye Point, which has been in Jane Arland Brown's family , for 61 years. It is a private place with undeveloped lakefront property on either side. The family owns close to, J ,800 feet of lake shore on land totaling about 20 acres. An appraisal taken three years ago placed its worth at $380,000 and that value is expected to double by 1988. Rye Point is located two miles north of Hammondsport along the east shore of the lake. You have to go back to the 1800s to learn how the point came into the Arland family. Jane's grandfather, the late Frederick O. Arland, was a blacksmith and carriage ironer in Hammondsport. When he went courting, he chose a servant girl who worked for the Masson family, formerly of Hammondsport. That's the family of Paul Masson who, through Orson Welles on TV, vows it will "sell no wine before its time." Grandpa Arland and his intended did much of their courting at Rye Point. There were no cottages there then, just the shagbark hickory trees that tower over the point today. The Arlands had two daughters, Olive and Nina, and two sons, William, who became a lawyer, and Frederick L., Jane Brown's father, who worked for the New York Telephone Co. Rye Point was part of a farm in those days and a popular spot for the Arland family. Jane said she has spent some part of the summer there during every one of her 70 years. The farmer-owners wouldn't sell at first, so the Arlands rented one of the small cottages that occupied the point in those days. Jane was raised in Albany and New York City as the telephone company transferred her father around the state, but the family always returned to Rye Point for vacation. William, Jane's uncle, learned that the owners were interested in selling in 1920 and contacted the rest of his family. The Arlands bought the point for $1,800 in 1920 and acquired the land on either side in 1930, and 1949. Jane's aunts, Olive and Nina, were schoolteachers in the Hammondsport area all their lives and never married. "My Aunt Olive said she was an old maid by choice," said Jane. Jane is an only child and became the sole owner of Rye Point in 1966. She and Chauncey have a daughter, Arlene, who has no children, and a son, Theodore who has three children. It was Theodore's contact with a tax lawyer that led the family to form the corporation which now owns Rye Point. The purpose is to avoid the huge tax bite Jane's estate would have to pay when she died and to make all of her blood relatives shareholders of the point. Inlaws are excluded. Under the arrangement, Rye Point can't be sold without consent of all the shareholders. The arrangement also cost Jane her ownership of the property. She and Chauncey now pay rent to live in one of the three cottages at Rye Point during the summer. They live in Florida during the winter. Their son and daughter use the other cottages. Chauncey, 73, is a retired physical education teacher whose last position was a 29-year tenure at LaSalle High School in Niagara Falls, NY. The Browns could have sold Rye Point when Jane owned it, and lived well on the proceeds. The thought never popped into her head, said Jane. With Social Security, Chauncey's pension and some income from her father's estate, they have enough to live on, she said. "The enjoyment is so much. What would we do with the money that would be worth all that we have here?" she asked, "Besides, we wanted to keep it in the family." The Browns try to keep the property about the same as it was when God put it there. That's why a giant hickory tree grows through the roof of their side porch. When a contractor built the porch roof, the Browns ordered him to build it around the tree. An innertube around the hole in the roof makes it leakproof and provides the necessary "give" when the winds of Keuka make the tree sway. The couple did have to cut down one or two trees in front of the cottage. But the stumps left behind make neat places to sit and watch the spectacular Keuka sunsets.
Family forms firm to help keep Keuka property By GARTH WADE HAMMONDSPORT Chauncey and Jane Brown aren't rich, but they gave away nearly $500,000 worth of prime Keuka Lake property to help keep it in the family. The result is a unique type of family corporation that now owns Rye Point, which has been in Jane Arland Brown's family , for 61 years. It is a private place with undeveloped lakefront property on either side. The family owns close to, J ,800 feet of lake shore on land totaling about 20 acres. An appraisal taken three years ago placed its worth at $380,000 and that value is expected to double by 1988. Rye Point is located two miles north of Hammondsport along the east shore of the lake. You have to go back to the 1800s to learn how the point came into the Arland family. Jane's grandfather, the late Frederick O. Arland, was a blacksmith and carriage ironer in Hammondsport. When he went courting, he chose a servant girl who worked for the Masson family, formerly of Hammondsport. That's the family of Paul Masson who, through Orson Welles on TV, vows it will "sell no wine before its time." Grandpa Arland and his intended did much of their courting at Rye Point. There were no cottages there then, just the shagbark hickory trees that tower over the point today. The Arlands had two daughters, Olive and Nina, and two sons, William, who became a lawyer, and Frederick L., Jane Brown's father, who worked for the New York Telephone Co. Rye Point was part of a farm in those days and a popular spot for the Arland family. Jane said she has spent some part of the summer there during every one of her 70 years. The farmer-owners wouldn't sell at first, so the Arlands rented one of the small cottages that occupied the point in those days. Jane was raised in Albany and New York City as the telephone company transferred her father around the state, but the family always returned to Rye Point for vacation. William, Jane's uncle, learned that the owners were interested in selling in 1920 and contacted the rest of his family. The Arlands bought the point for $1,800 in 1920 and acquired the land on either side in 1930, and 1949. Jane's aunts, Olive and Nina, were schoolteachers in the Hammondsport area all their lives and never married. "My Aunt Olive said she was an old maid by choice," said Jane. Jane is an only child and became the sole owner of Rye Point in 1966. She and Chauncey have a daughter, Arlene, who has no children, and a son, Theodore who has three children. It was Theodore's contact with a tax lawyer that led the family to form the corporation which now owns Rye Point. The purpose is to avoid the huge tax bite Jane's estate would have to pay when she died and to make all of her blood relatives shareholders of the point. Inlaws are excluded. Under the arrangement, Rye Point can't be sold without consent of all the shareholders. The arrangement also cost Jane her ownership of the property. She and Chauncey now pay rent to live in one of the three cottages at Rye Point during the summer. They live in Florida during the winter. Their son and daughter use the other cottages. Chauncey, 73, is a retired physical education teacher whose last position was a 29-year tenure at LaSalle High School in Niagara Falls, NY. The Browns could have sold Rye Point when Jane owned it, and lived well on the proceeds. The thought never popped into her head, said Jane. With Social Security, Chauncey's pension and some income from her father's estate, they have enough to live on, she said. "The enjoyment is so much. What would we do with the money that would be worth all that we have here?" she asked, "Besides, we wanted to keep it in the family." The Browns try to keep the property about the same as it was when God put it there. That's why a giant hickory tree grows through the roof of their side porch. When a contractor built the porch roof, the Browns ordered him to build it around the tree. An innertube around the hole in the roof makes it leakproof and provides the necessary "give" when the winds of Keuka make the tree sway. The couple did have to cut down one or two trees in front of the cottage. But the stumps left behind make neat places to sit and watch the spectacular Keuka sunsets.
Blacksmith
Family forms firm to help keep Keuka property By GARTH WADE HAMMONDSPORT Chauncey and Jane Brown aren't rich, but they gave away nearly $500,000 worth of prime Keuka Lake property to help keep it in the family. The result is a unique type of family corporation that now owns Rye Point, which has been in Jane Arland Brown's family , for 61 years. It is a private place with undeveloped lakefront property on either side. The family owns close to, J ,800 feet of lake shore on land totaling about 20 acres. An appraisal taken three years ago placed its worth at $380,000 and that value is expected to double by 1988. Rye Point is located two miles north of Hammondsport along the east shore of the lake. You have to go back to the 1800s to learn how the point came into the Arland family. Jane's grandfather, the late Frederick O. Arland, was a blacksmith and carriage ironer in Hammondsport. When he went courting, he chose a servant girl who worked for the Masson family, formerly of Hammondsport. That's the family of Paul Masson who, through Orson Welles on TV, vows it will "sell no wine before its time." Grandpa Arland and his intended did much of their courting at Rye Point. There were no cottages there then, just the shagbark hickory trees that tower over the point today. The Arlands had two daughters, Olive and Nina, and two sons, William, who became a lawyer, and Frederick L., Jane Brown's father, who worked for the New York Telephone Co. Rye Point was part of a farm in those days and a popular spot for the Arland family. Jane said she has spent some part of the summer there during every one of her 70 years. The farmer-owners wouldn't sell at first, so the Arlands rented one of the small cottages that occupied the point in those days. Jane was raised in Albany and New York City as the telephone company transferred her father around the state, but the family always returned to Rye Point for vacation. William, Jane's uncle, learned that the owners were interested in selling in 1920 and contacted the rest of his family. The Arlands bought the point for $1,800 in 1920 and acquired the land on either side in 1930, and 1949. Jane's aunts, Olive and Nina, were schoolteachers in the Hammondsport area all their lives and never married. "My Aunt Olive said she was an old maid by choice," said Jane. Jane is an only child and became the sole owner of Rye Point in 1966. She and Chauncey have a daughter, Arlene, who has no children, and a son, Theodore who has three children. It was Theodore's contact with a tax lawyer that led the family to form the corporation which now owns Rye Point. The purpose is to avoid the huge tax bite Jane's estate would have to pay when she died and to make all of her blood relatives shareholders of the point. Inlaws are excluded. Under the arrangement, Rye Point can't be sold without consent of all the shareholders. The arrangement also cost Jane her ownership of the property. She and Chauncey now pay rent to live in one of the three cottages at Rye Point during the summer. They live in Florida during the winter. Their son and daughter use the other cottages. Chauncey, 73, is a retired physical education teacher whose last position was a 29-year tenure at LaSalle High School in Niagara Falls, NY. The Browns could have sold Rye Point when Jane owned it, and lived well on the proceeds. The thought never popped into her head, said Jane. With Social Security, Chauncey's pension and some income from her father's estate, they have enough to live on, she said. "The enjoyment is so much. What would we do with the money that would be worth all that we have here?" she asked, "Besides, we wanted to keep it in the family." The Browns try to keep the property about the same as it was when God put it there. That's why a giant hickory tree grows through the roof of their side porch. When a contractor built the porch roof, the Browns ordered him to build it around the tree. An innertube around the hole in the roof makes it leakproof and provides the necessary "give" when the winds of Keuka make the tree sway. The couple did have to cut down one or two trees in front of the cottage. But the stumps left behind make neat places to sit and watch the spectacular Keuka sunsets.
Family forms firm to help keep Keuka property By GARTH WADE HAMMONDSPORT Chauncey and Jane Brown aren't rich, but they gave away nearly $500,000 worth of prime Keuka Lake property to help keep it in the family. The result is a unique type of family corporation that now owns Rye Point, which has been in Jane Arland Brown's family , for 61 years. It is a private place with undeveloped lakefront property on either side. The family owns close to, J ,800 feet of lake shore on land totaling about 20 acres. An appraisal taken three years ago placed its worth at $380,000 and that value is expected to double by 1988. Rye Point is located two miles north of Hammondsport along the east shore of the lake. You have to go back to the 1800s to learn how the point came into the Arland family. Jane's grandfather, the late Frederick O. Arland, was a blacksmith and carriage ironer in Hammondsport. When he went courting, he chose a servant girl who worked for the Masson family, formerly of Hammondsport. That's the family of Paul Masson who, through Orson Welles on TV, vows it will "sell no wine before its time." Grandpa Arland and his intended did much of their courting at Rye Point. There were no cottages there then, just the shagbark hickory trees that tower over the point today. The Arlands had two daughters, Olive and Nina, and two sons, William, who became a lawyer, and Frederick L., Jane Brown's father, who worked for the New York Telephone Co. Rye Point was part of a farm in those days and a popular spot for the Arland family. Jane said she has spent some part of the summer there during every one of her 70 years. The farmer-owners wouldn't sell at first, so the Arlands rented one of the small cottages that occupied the point in those days. Jane was raised in Albany and New York City as the telephone company transferred her father around the state, but the family always returned to Rye Point for vacation. William, Jane's uncle, learned that the owners were interested in selling in 1920 and contacted the rest of his family. The Arlands bought the point for $1,800 in 1920 and acquired the land on either side in 1930, and 1949. Jane's aunts, Olive and Nina, were schoolteachers in the Hammondsport area all their lives and never married. "My Aunt Olive said she was an old maid by choice," said Jane. Jane is an only child and became the sole owner of Rye Point in 1966. She and Chauncey have a daughter, Arlene, who has no children, and a son, Theodore who has three children. It was Theodore's contact with a tax lawyer that led the family to form the corporation which now owns Rye Point. The purpose is to avoid the huge tax bite Jane's estate would have to pay when she died and to make all of her blood relatives shareholders of the point. Inlaws are excluded. Under the arrangement, Rye Point can't be sold without consent of all the shareholders. The arrangement also cost Jane her ownership of the property. She and Chauncey now pay rent to live in one of the three cottages at Rye Point during the summer. They live in Florida during the winter. Their son and daughter use the other cottages. Chauncey, 73, is a retired physical education teacher whose last position was a 29-year tenure at LaSalle High School in Niagara Falls, NY. The Browns could have sold Rye Point when Jane owned it, and lived well on the proceeds. The thought never popped into her head, said Jane. With Social Security, Chauncey's pension and some income from her father's estate, they have enough to live on, she said. "The enjoyment is so much. What would we do with the money that would be worth all that we have here?" she asked, "Besides, we wanted to keep it in the family." The Browns try to keep the property about the same as it was when God put it there. That's why a giant hickory tree grows through the roof of their side porch. When a contractor built the porch roof, the Browns ordered him to build it around the tree. An innertube around the hole in the roof makes it leakproof and provides the necessary "give" when the winds of Keuka make the tree sway. The couple did have to cut down one or two trees in front of the cottage. But the stumps left behind make neat places to sit and watch the spectacular Keuka sunsets.
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