KINGSTON, N.Y. — There’s something about the soul of a Mary’s Avenue house that has soothed Jenny Fowler, a stage-four breast cancer survivor, for years.

And the 50-year-old Esopus woman knows precisely what the Herbert H. and Sofia P. Reuner Cancer Support House interior and surroundings have meant to her.

“Entering the Reuner House, you’re offered the hospitality of home— a cup of tea, sometimes a bite to eat from the kitchen,” Fowler said in an email. “You’re invited into a living room with cozy couches, handed a throw. Sometimes you’re settled in cushy chairs in a circle in the privacy of the library. It’s lined with hundreds of books and on one wall is a photo of a woman with her arms opened wide, a mastectomy scar on one side of her chest.”

“Or you might be nestled in the sun roo

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