36 Main St, Roslyn, NY, 11576

John F. Remsen Harness Shop & Saddlery

1431 Old Northern Boulevard, Roslyn

Date BuiltCirca 1880
Original UseHarness Shop
Restoration StatusPlanned
Roslyn Landmark Society Covenant No
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The harness shop of John F. Remsen was located here in the late 1880s. The building is distinguished by its "flat-iron" shape, the narrow end of which has a small vestibule with a pepper-pot roof. The building is shingled and a the façade is surmounted by a Classic Revival cornice, with applied rectangular moldings. The livery stables in the rear were destroyed by fire in the 1950s and the 1960s.

The building became Fern's Harness Shop restaurant/bar in the 1970s. Later it became the Poco Loco restaurant before a 2014 fire damaged the building.

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The John F. Remsen's Harness Shop circa 1915.

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..An original 1936 oil painting of the building by Isadore K. Donskoy.

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Fern's Restaurant/Bar (Circa 1980)

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Then (1890) and Now (2020)

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