The SmithyArchitectural Drawing

Kyle & Danielle
The Smithy is the oldest building in Cooperstown. It was built by William Cooper in 1786, later to be inherited by his son, James Fenimore Cooper in 1811.  The first floor became a blacksmith shop. Today, they still have the original tools the blacksmith used.  The upper stories, added later, were originally carriage shops and are now the Pioneer Gallery.  The Smithy is a pottery shop in the spring and fall, and an art gallery in the summer. 

The Smithy has a ground floor made of stone, a second story which is partly brick and a third floor of clapboard. Eben Morehouse sold the Smithy to Horace Fish  and Chloe Paine. Fish bought Paine out in1840. Over the next eighty years two or three generations of  the Fish family owned the Smithy. Angeline Fish sold the Smithy to Everett Potter who sold the Smithy back to James Fenimore Cooper. Today the Smithy is owned by a descendent of William Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper.