Historic Bedell House faces demolition
Photo credit: handout/Newsday File | Hiram K. Bedell House at its original site in West Hempstead circa 1982. The House was moved to Old Bethpage Village Restoration.
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Thirty years after Nassau officials moved the historic Bedell House from West Hempstead to Old Bethpage Village Restoration to save it from demolition, the county now plans to do the job itself.
The county, which never restored the structure built by Hiram Bedell in 1833 or properly stabilized it to prevent deterioration, says it is beyond saving. Officials plan to tear it down and use the...
