Yes, but from my reading, Charles Beaman called it "Blow-Me-Up" but to others in Town it was called "Huggins' Folly". My theory, and this is just a theory, that the house was so horrifying (St. Gaudens when taking the first look at the house described it as "....it appeared so forbidding and relentless that one night have imagined a skeleton half-hanging out of the window, shrieking and dangling inthe gale, with the sound of clanking bones.") that Beaman was referring to it with tongue in cheek and calling it "Blow-Me-Up"! In A Brief History of Cornish by Hugh Wade Mason, he writes, "It was not until 1891 that Beaman agreed to sell "Blow-Me-Up"' as he called it, for $2500 and a bas-relief portrait of himself." (pg. 49) So, with all that said, yes, Blow-Me-Up did become named Aspet.
I think you mean "Blow-Me-Down Mill" when you refer to a Grange which was a gristmill which local farmers could utilize and was across the street from his house named "Blow-Me-Down". He sold what he called, "Blow-Me-Up", the house known as "Huggins' Folly" to St. Gaudens in 1891.
I believe that the name of the house that St. Gaudens' originally was going to rent, and eventually purchased, was known as "Huggins' Folly" which St Gaudens will go on to name "Aspet". Charles Cotesworth Beaman's house was known as "Blow-Me-Down Farm."
Yes, but from my reading, Charles Beaman called it "Blow-Me-Up" but to others in Town it was called "Huggins' Folly". My theory, and this is just a theory, that the house was so horrifying (St. Gaudens when taking the first look at the house described it as "....it appeared so forbidding and relentless that one night have imagined a skeleton half-hanging out of the window, shrieking and dangling inthe gale, with the sound of clanking bones.") that Beaman was referring to it with tongue in cheek and calling it "Blow-Me-Up"! In A Brief History of Cornish by Hugh Wade Mason, he writes, "It was not until 1891 that Beaman agreed to sell "Blow-Me-Up"' as he called it, for $2500 and a bas-relief portrait of himself." (pg. 49) So, with all that said, yes, Blow-Me-Up did become named Aspet.
I think you mean "Blow-Me-Down Mill" when you refer to a Grange which was a gristmill which local farmers could utilize and was across the street from his house named "Blow-Me-Down". He sold what he called, "Blow-Me-Up", the house known as "Huggins' Folly" to St. Gaudens in 1891.
This has some great pictures and a lot of detail:
https://home.nps.gov/articles/000/saint-gaudens-aspet-apple-trees.htm
yes..Blow-Me-Down-Mill...so "Blow-Me-Up" became the Aspet house?
I'm confused....
https://www.nps.gov/places/blow-me-down-farm-saint-gaudens-nhp.htm
Thanks for your patience
I believe that the name of the house that St. Gaudens' originally was going to rent, and eventually purchased, was known as "Huggins' Folly" which St Gaudens will go on to name "Aspet". Charles Cotesworth Beaman's house was known as "Blow-Me-Down Farm."
Caroline Storrs
Cornish
Thanks for your reply.
I read one other name mentioned, as well...I used "Blow-Me-Down" because folks are familiiar with the Grange.
All those names refer to the same house, yes?