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Buffalo Lighthouse, Buffalo New York

Buffalo Lighthouse, Buffalo New York

This was the second lighthouse in Buffalo. Its picture is included in the seal of the city of Buffalo symbolizing the city's tradition as an important port on the Great Lakes. It now serves as a historical monument. The photo above dates from 1859.

Rose Hill, Tivoli New York

Rose Hill, Tivoli New York

John Watts de Peyster (1821-1906) purchased land at Snake point from Eugene Livingston, his wife's cousin, of the adjacent Teviot, In 1843, he had erected a large Tuscan Villa which he named Rose Hill. The Tuscan Villa was then popular for country estates. Flanking wings and a tower containing a library were added later. The estate also included flower gardens, stables and farm buildings. After de Peyster's death. Rose Hill became the Leake and Watts Orphan House. Dorothy Day, a leader of the Catholic Worker Movement, purchased Rose Hill in 1964. The Catholic Worker Movement operated Rose Hill as a farm until 1978. Rose Hill is one of twenty-one contiguous estates along the east bank of the Hudson from Stratsburg to

Hun House, Albany New York

Hun House, Albany New York

This house was built about 1820 by a Mr, Wood. Th- characteristics of the interior details unquestionably point to the fact that Philip Hooker was responsible for the design of the house if he was not actually the Architect. The house was bought by Dr. Henry Hun about 1896 and was still owned by his son. Dr. Henry Hun in 1936.

Wyndclyffe Mansion (Linden Grove), Rhinebeck New York

Wyndclyffe Mansion (Linden Grove), Rhinebeck New York

Mansion that inspired the Phrase “Keeping up with the Jones”

Constructed in the popular Norman style, the design of this large brick house is attributed to local architect George Veitch. The master mason, John Byrd, executed the highly varied ornamental brickwork using only rectangular and few molded bricks. Originally called Wyndclyffe, the house was used as a weekend and summer residence by its first owner, Elizabeth Schermerhorn Jones of New York City. Edith Jones Wharton was a frequent childhood visitor. Wyndclyffe may have influenced Miss Wharton in her book Hudson River Bracketed. Wyndclyffe was renamed Linden Grove by Andrew Finck, the second owner, in 1886. A prominent New Yorker, Elizabeth Schermerhorn Jones (1810-1876), aunt of the writer, Edith Jones Wharton, purchased land in Rhinebeck in 1852. She probably contracted George Veitch

Wilderstein Mansion, Rhinebeck New York

Wilderstein Mansion, Rhinebeck New York

Situated on a bluff looking south on the Hudson River, Wilderstein is an interesting adaptation of a mid-nineteenth-century villa to a variation of the Queen Anne style. Wilderstein has been the seat of the Suckley family since its design in 1853 by John Warren Ritch. In 1888-89, the addition of a tower, new verandas, porte cochere, and service wing designed by Poughkeepsie architect Arnout Cannon, greatly altered the simple villa character. A rich interior scheme, furnished by J.B. Tiffany & Co., is comprised of woodwork of oak, mahogany, and cherry as well as 44 leaded glass panels. Downing Vaux altered the main stair and added the shady in 1892- Vaux & Co. designed an extensive landscape architecture plan to improve the

Wildercliff Mansion, Rhinebeck New York

Wildercliff Mansion, Rhinebeck New York

This Large House Overlooking the Hudson River was Built in 1799

A large house with Federal style details situated on a bluff overlooking the Hudson River, Wildercliff was constructed in 1799. Wildercliff was the home of the Reverend Freeborn Garrettson (1752-1827), an early circuit riding Methodist minister, and his wife, Catherine, a daughter of Judge Robert and Margaret Beekman Livingston of the estate, Clermont, Wildercliff is one of twenty-one contiguous estates along the east bank of the Hudson River between Staatsbury and Tivoli, New York. Freeborn Garrettson was born on August 19^th, 1752, near the mouth of the Susquehanna River at Perryman, Maryland. He was raised as a member of the Church of England. A visit by the itinerant preacher, Robert Strawbridge, encouraged Garrettson's conversion to Methodism in 1775. The Rev. Garrettson

The Meadows/Leacote, Rhinebeck New York

The Meadows/Leacote, Rhinebeck New York

The Meadows was established in 1847 by Charles Shiels Wainwright and his brother, William Pratt Wainwright. The estate, comprising a large English Gothic house erected in 1847, a dairy cottage built in 1849, a 350 acre farm, was purchased in 1875 by Douglas Merritt, the former owner of Lyndhurst in Tarrytown, New York. Merritt changed the name to Leacote. Over twenty-six outbuildings, were erected in the English Gothic style between 1847 and 1926. The main house was destroyed by fire in 1977. Leacote, still an operating farm, is one of twenty-one contiguous estates along the east bank of the Hudson River between Staatsburg and Tivoli, New York. Charles Sheils Wainwright and William Pratt Wainwright bought the Meadows in 1847. The brothers

Harmony Manufacturing Company Mill #3 (Mastodon Mill), Cohoes New York

Harmony Manufacturing Company Mill #3 (Mastodon Mill), Cohoes New York

Known locally as the Mastodon Mill, the Harmony Mill No. 3 is exceptionally interesting for its decorative architectural treatment, uncommonly elaborate for an industrial structure Although the building is nearly 1100 feet long, its finely articulated facade, mansard roof, and central tower make it a well-scaled element of the Harmony Mills complex, which includes mill buildings, power canals, workers' houses, and commercial structures. Harmony is one of the finest examples of a large-scale textile mill complex outside of New England, and it has played an important role in the economic development of Cohoes. In excavating for the foundation of the north end of the building, the bones of a mastodon were found. Subsequently, the mill became popularly known as the Mastodon

Springside (Mathew Vassar Estate), Poughkeepsie New York

Springside (Mathew Vassar Estate), Poughkeepsie New York

Built by Mathew Vassr (1792-1868), founder of Vassar College, as a country seat, Springside is unique in possessing the only two buildings which can be definitely attributed to Andrew Jackson Downing (1803-1892). Downing's plans and elevations for the cottage and the stables are now in the Vassar Library Collection. Mathew Vassar originally bought the land on which the cottage and outbuildings stand in behalf of the Poughkeepsie Cemetery Committee. The Committe rejected the site and Vassar decided to engage A.J. Downing to landscape the grounds and build his country home. Springside is the last extant example of Downings work. Dormer windows and the side balcony were added to the corrage in the 20^th century. The carriage house and barn were extensively

Nine Partners Meeting House, Millbrook New York

Nine Partners Meeting House, Millbrook New York

In 1769 the Nine Partners was set off as a separate monthly meeting, which has continued to date (1936). The Friends in the settlement had their own first meeting at a much earlier date, and erected a log meeting house upon the spot, where the present building stands. This first building was destroyed by fire on December 27, 1778. A Committee was appointed on April 16, of the following year, to prepare plans for a less perishable building 40' x 50' at an estimated cost of $600.00. The result was that in 1780 a large brick meeting house was built and stands today a monument to the thoroughness and skill of those who did the work. The bricks were made a

Trinity Church, Fishkill New York

Trinity Church, Fishkill New York

A memorial tablet, the gift of James E. Dean, Esq. of Fishkill, was placed over the door of this church in 1894, presenting the following chronology of the parish; Trinity Church organised, in communion with the Church of England, by the Rev. Samuel Seabury, 1758. The first rector, Rev. John Beardsley, October 26^th, 1766. Reincorporated, October 13^th, 1785, and October 16^th, 1796. This building was erected about 1769. Occupied by the New York Provincial Convention which re-moved from White plains, September 3^rd, 1776. Used for a military hospital by the army of Gen. Washington until disbanded June 2^nd, 1783. Pro Dao et Patria 1756-1894. On the day the tablet was unveiled, Nov. 29, 1894, an address was delivered by the Rector,

Scott Wanamaker House, Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Scott Wanamaker House, Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Notable example of Jacobean Revival style and one of the affluent townhouses in Philadelphia, Center City section. From 1894 to 1922 the house was the home of John Wanamaker, the founder of the John Wanamaker Department Store. Dimensions are 50' x 100'; three-and-a-half stories with a basement. Interior is a center hall plan with large open staircase and an elaborately carved and paneled interior. This house was alter to an apartment house and the exterior stair tower was added to west side in 1938. The building was vacated in 1972 and restored in the mid 1970s.

First Reformed Dutch Church, Fishkill New York

First Reformed Dutch Church, Fishkill New York

This church stands on the north side of the Main Street, just west of the Albany Post Road in the Village of Fishkill Dutchess County, N. Y. On the east side of the Post Road, south of the Main Street, is Trinity (Protestant Episcopal) Church. The Rev. Francis Kip, D.D., who preached the sermon on Sept. 12, 1866, at the 150^th anniversary of the founding of the Dutch Reformed Church, was pastor from 1835 to 1870. In that sermon he said that the records of the church, with tho exception of a volume in the Dutch language, covering the period from 1728 to about 1766, were lost and probably beyond recovery.. The only records then in possession of the church since

La Bergerie/Rokeby Mansion Barrytown New York

La Bergerie/Rokeby Mansion Barrytown New York

One of the Grand Estates of the Hudson River Valley

The Livingston family was one of the most powerful influences in the affairs of the colony, the early statehood of New York, and the United States. In June 1673, Robert Livingston (1654-1728), a nineteen year old Protestant Scot who had lived and worked in the Netherlands, arrived in Charlestown, Massachusetts. He soon moved to Albany, New York, where his skills in English and Dutch led to a series of minor official posts. Alert to opportunity, he soon married a prominent widow, made two separate land purchases totaling 2500 acres, and confirmed a patent which formed a manor of 160,000 acres. As first Lord of the Livingston Manor, Livingston's status and wealth advanced. His son Philip (1686-1749), the eldest to survive, became

Edgewater Mansion, Barrytown New York

Edgewater Mansion, Barrytown New York

Edgewater was constructed for John R. Livingston of Massena as a gift for his daughter after her marriage in 1819 to Captain Rawlins Lowndes Brown of Charleston, South Carolina. John Livingston, one of ten children'of the distinguished Judge Robert Livingston and Margaret Beekman Livingston, made his home along the Hudson on land that had been part of the extensive Beekman patent. Strong family ties and important land holdings made generations of Livingston descendants an important force along the Hudson. (See Montgomery Place for another Livingston Mansion in the area.) The choice of a temple-fronted design, a new type in the Hudson Valley, might have been made by Captain Brown or perhaps as an effort to make him at home in the

Montgomery Place Mansion, Barrytown New York

Montgomery Place Mansion, Barrytown New York

Since its construction in 1802, Montgomery Place has never been sold. Each descendant has, in turn, received the family estate. Janet Livingston Montgomery, the oldest of the eleven children of Margaret Beekman Livingston and Judge Robert R. Livingston, married General Richard Montgomery in 1773. Two years later, he was killed at the Battle of Quebec and his wife mourned his death throughout her life. In 1802 Mrs. Montgomery purchased 250 acres of land, part of which had been the old Schuyler Patent, from John Van Benthuysen. Mrs. Montgomery was nearly sixty years old when she moved from her estate, Grasmere, to the Montgomery Place. She probably moved because of Grasmere's association with her husband, and a wish to be nearer Clermont,

Conrad Edick House, Deposit New York

Conrad Edick House, Deposit New York

The structure is located facing the West Branch of the Delaware River very close to the line between Broome County and Delaware County. This line was originally the Fort Stanwix Treaty Line of 1768 and thus marked the western frontier of white settlement in New York State according to the agreement between the Indians of the Six Nations and Sir William Johnson, the British Crown's commissioner. The older portion of the village of Deposit, and its first center, was situated nearby, on the Delaware County side, east of the old Treaty line. Much of the village soon developed on the western or Broome County side. The site of this property is almost on the spot where the Treaty line meets the

Marcus McGraw House (Lamont Library), McGraw New York

Marcus McGraw House (Lamont Library), McGraw New York

The rear portion of the building is said to be one of the first eleven houses built in McGraw Village by 1813. The front or Greek Temple part of the house was occupied by John Lamont, whose son, Daniel, later became private secretary to President Grover Cleveland, and later Secretary of War. Local historians believe that Marcus McGraw, son of Samuel McGraw, a first settler, probably built the rear portion which was one of the ten or eleven houses on Main Street in 1810 to 1813. There is disagreement as to whether Marcus McGraw or John Lamont built the front or Greek Temple part as it was called, and about whether Marcus built or only lived in the older rear portion.

Sig Sautelle Circus Training House (George Satterly House), Homer New York

Sig Sautelle Circus Training House (George Satterly House), Homer New York

The building was built for circus training. The first two floors were used as living quarters for the Satterly (or Satterlee) family while the third floor was used as a training area for acrobats. A rope was lowered by a man standing in the cupola which was then attached to the learning acrobat. This contraption was called a mechanic strap and prevented the acrobatic student from falling to the hard floor below. Before barns were completed behind the house, animals were kept in the cellar, where there was a training ring. A block and tackle was rigged to the covering over the outside cellar entrance which allowed larger animals to be lowered; there are no outside stairs into the cellar. George

Augustus Donnelly House (David Harum House), Homer New York

Augustus Donnelly House (David Harum House), Homer New York

It is widely accepted that David Hannum, owner of the house, was the inspiration for the title character of David Harum, a novel by Edward Noyes Westcott. Westcott's father knew Hannum and many of the events and places in Hannum's life appear in the novel. Hannum was bom in Preble, New York, in 1823. He was married twice, first to Charlotte Hancock. They had one child who died at the age of eight, and shortly thereafter his wife died. He was married again to Lois Babcock, but the child of this union also died. Hannum was a fairly successful merchant, although he died bankrupt. He had a reputation as a horse trader and story teller. Hannum took part in the Cardiff

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