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1810 Parish mansion in Ogdensburg holding Remington's work, with reported voices on the Ghost Walk
303 Washington Street, Ogdensburg, NY 13669
Research updated June 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
General museum admission; see the museum's visit page for current rates and hours. Ghost Walk events are separately ticketed.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Historic mansion with galleries; mostly level interior, some period stairs
Equipment
No Photos
Est. 1810 · 1810 David Parish Mansion · Largest Frederic Remington Collection · Library Park Historic District
The museum stands at 303 Washington Street in Ogdensburg, on the St. Lawrence River in northern New York. Its building is a mansion completed in 1810 for David Parish, a financier prominent in the early development of the North Country. The house later passed through other owners and uses before becoming a museum.
Frederic Remington, the painter and sculptor of the American West, grew up in the Ogdensburg area and died in 1909. His widow, Eva Remington, moved into the Parish house in 1915 as a guest of his friend George Hall and lived there until her death in 1918. The museum was established in 1923 as the Remington Art Memorial from her estate, and it has since grown into the largest single collection of Remington's paintings, drawings, sculptures, letters, and personal effects, including works such as the 1895 bronze The Bronco Buster.
Today the institution operates as the Frederic Remington Art Museum, open to the public with general admission. Beyond its art holdings, the historic mansion carries a haunted reputation tied to an earlier resident, and the building is one of the featured stops on the Ogdensburg Ghost Walk, an evening tour produced by the Ogdensburg History Museum that recounts the city's documented and legendary history.
Sources
The central figure in the museum's lore is Elena Vespucci, a woman connected to the household of the early owners and remembered locally for the dramatic chapter of her life spent in the house. Regional accounts hold that visitors and staff have heard a voice attributed to Vespucci, and the storytelling frames her as a presence returning to a place tied to a meaningful period of her life rather than as a malevolent spirit.
A second strand connects the building to Frederic Remington himself, whose collection fills the museum and whose family was rooted in Ogdensburg. Reports describe a sense of his presence among the galleries, a fitting note for a museum so closely identified with one artist. Other unnamed figures are mentioned in passing in the local listings.
These stories are presented to the public mainly through the Ogdensburg Ghost Walk, a seasonal evening tour run by the Ogdensburg History Museum that includes the Remington Museum among its stops. During regular museum hours the building functions as a fine-art institution; the haunted reputation is treated as part of the city's broader history-and-hauntings storytelling rather than a staged attraction inside the galleries.
Notable Entities
The Frederic Remington Art Museum holds the largest collection of the artist's paintings, drawings, sculptures, correspondence, and personal possessions, displayed in the historic 1810 Parish mansion. Admission, hours, and rates are listed on the museum's visit page.
The museum is a featured stop on the Ogdensburg Ghost Walk run by the Ogdensburg History Museum, where the building's reported apparitions are recounted. The Ghost Walk is a separately scheduled, ticketed evening tour; check the History Museum's calendar for dates.
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