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Metadata
Title |
Dodge Thomas Funeral Home Hearse |
Object ID |
2015.009.GCP5 44 |
Collection |
Glen Cove Photograph Collection #5 |
Description |
Dodge Thomas Funeral Home Hearse The business was begun in 1816 by Wheelright who made a coffin for a Brookville farmer. Then they went on to make furniture as well as coffins and sell them in a shop on Glen Street (Building still standing as of 2011). The building came to Dodge in 1873 by marriage. The building on Franklin Avenue, which is the present Dodge Thomas Funeral Parlor was originally in 1894, a storage building for the furniture adjoining the Dodge Homestead. In the 1920s, the funeral business was relocated there. Herbert Dodge died in 1962 at 88 years old. George Thomas had become a partner in 1946 as there were no Dodges to carry on the business. Guy Minutoli and his wife Karen bought the business in 1981. He had started out as a chauffer there. Dodge Thomas is the oldest continuing business in NY State. The first motorized hearse was a homemade modified Model T. Sunnyside home conversion by Herbert Dodge |
Photographer |
Unknown |
Source |
Minutoli, Guy and Jeanine (daughter) |
Search Terms |
Dodge Thomas Funeral hearse Businesses |
Object Name |
Photograph |
Copyright |
This material may be protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17 U.S. Code). For permission to publish or display images please contact the Glen Cove Public Library Robert R. Coles Long Island History Room. |