FREDERIC REMINGTON ART MUSEUM
Museum — 303 Washington St., Ogdensburg, St. Lawrence County, New York
Status: Status unknown · Access: Open to public · est. 1809
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Museum research record.

Frederic Remington Art Museum is a museum in Ogdensburg, New York. Museum research record. Museum established in 1923 in the 1809 Parish Mansion, once occupied by Eva Remington. Local lore holds that Reports include lights from the 1920s onward and an alleged Ameriga Vespucci apparition during the 1950s.

The Frederic Remington Art Museum is the museum the widow built. Remington never lived in the house — the 1810 Parish Mansion in Ogdensburg, built by the St. Lawrence County land developer David Parish — but his widow Eva did, from 1915 to 1918, in rooms owned by Remington's friend George Hall. When Eva and her sister Emma founded the Remington Art Memorial in 1923, they put the world's largest Remington collection in the house she'd last occupied: his sculptures, paintings, studio contents, the easel and brushes, the hockey stick, the elk's-tooth cufflinks, even the cigars left in his pocket.
The collection almost went to Washington — Eva offered the Indian artifacts to the Smithsonian, then took them back when she learned the museum would split the firearms, saddles, and clothing into separate displays. She wanted the whole West kept together, and Ogdensburg kept it: the boyhood town where Remington had grown up, the North Country he kept returning to between the trips west that made him the painter of the vanishing frontier.
The museum keeps the artist the way Eva wanted — not just the bronzes and the nocturnes but the man: the narrow bed, the scrapbooks, the studio stand, in the mansion where the visitor asks 'Did Remington live here?' and gets the true answer: no — but this is where he is found.
The Remington Museum is the archive's widow file — the 1810 Parish Mansion Eva Remington made into the world's largest Remington collection in 1923, the trove she pulled back from the Smithsonian to keep the artist's West whole.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
The Frederic Remington Art Museum is the archive's kept-together file — the 1923 memorial in the Ogdensburg mansion where Eva Remington lived, holding the collection she refused to let the Smithsonian split apart.
A museum the widow curated keeps its cigars — the file's suggestion being that the Remington Museum's hold is the intimacy: the studio tools, the bed, the pocket cigars — the artist preserved by the woman who wouldn't let Washington scatter him.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] apparition: Reports include lights from the 1920s onward and an alleged Ameriga Vespucci apparition during the 1950s. The site's claim set is modest — appropriate for a building whose exhibits already do the unsettling work. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. 'Frederic Remington Art Museum' carries the account. Whatever walks there, it walks often enough to keep the reports coming.
  source: Frederic Remington Art Museum (https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/the-frederic-remington-art-museum)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Museum established in 1923 in the 1809 Parish Mansion, once occupied by Eva Remington. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. Sources including 'Frederic Remington Art Museum' carry the record. It anchors the timeline the rest of the file hangs from.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Frederic Remington Art Museum — Haunted History Trail of New York State
  https://hauntedhistorytrail.com/explore/the-frederic-remington-art-museum

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