Grellet House
On the corner of High and Federal Streets stands a reproduction of the
Grellet house, built by area lawyer Louis Colaguori. The original house
stood on the corner of High and Library Streets, and was the home of
Etienne de Grellet du Mabillier, better known as
Stephen Grellet.
The house later served as a boarding house for some years, its most
notable tenant being Miss Kitty Balester, a student at nearby Van
Rensselaer Seminary, who went on to marry author Rudyard Kipling. In
the mid-twentieth century, the house was moved a short distance down
High Street. Only one wall of the original house remains, serving
as the north wall of a building which once housed the local offices of
Public Service Electric and Gas. Those offices are now housed in the
new Grellet house, along with the Colaguori law offices.
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