"The mystery of the house may be solved. Sarah Wood Langton from the Salmon Brook Historical Society in Granby, has a fantastic eye for architecture. She saw the bones of the old house in the facade of the structure on the corner of Pendleton Rd and
Salmon Brook St.—225 Salmon Brook— now a multi-family house but was once Doc. Pendleton's hospital. The original house was built by Timothy Stanley between 1869 and 1890. It passed through several owners until 1921 when Pendleton purchased it and did renovations to turn it into a hospital and sanatorium.
If you look closely and remove the porch from the center portion of the house, you can see the lines of the old place. It appears that the original corbels were used in the eaves. The property, according to an 1869 map of Granby center, belonged to a F.J Smith. A Joseph Smith owned property further south near what is now Maple View Farm. That property is mentioned in Elijah Smith's will of 1867, which left a portion of land he owned with his brother Joseph, to his son Orlando.
It would seem that the Orlando Smiths visited the F.J. Smiths and a photographer captured the moment.
That leaves just one mystery. How did this photo find its way to GHR? The Cooley connection? Anyone have any other ideas?"