This building, with a large sign saying NEWS OFFICE, was the first home of the Nyack Library when it was organized on January 13, 1879. The owner, John Haeselbarth, served as librarian. The first books came from a small collection at the YMCA,...
Miss Edith Stillwell is smiling faintly. Some of her 50 pupils look too old for a primary class. The class is outside of Nyack's Liberty Street School.
A white-haired gentleman with a walrus moustache faces the camera. He is wearing a formal suit with white shirt and tie. In his left hand is a rolled up program. The Lenox (MA) Library Association confirmed that the man is Grenville Dean Wilson....
In 1879, workmen posed on the floor beams of a new building on the west side of South Broadway. The ground floor is now the home of The Strawberry Place.
This is one of many pictures taken in 1984 of houses that were in existence in 1884, when Nyack was incorporated as a village. The pictures were displayed at the Hopper House and later donated to the Nyack Library. This house, at 63 North Broadway,...
This Nyack house, in the romantic Italianate style, is covered in brown shingles and has an off-center tower. The porch looks towards the Hudson River.The house was moved in 1987 from its original location on North Broadway at the corner of First...
The Barclay House is on DePew Avenue between South Mill and Prospect Streets. New doors, windows, siding, and shingles - but the basic structure of this small, charming house was retained. The house was built after the railroad reached Nyack in...
Three horses are harnessed to a box wagon. On the side is painted, "Nyack Ice Co., J. N. Felter . . . Nyack." On the back is a long note: "Ice wagon driven by Philip Westerly Babcock circa 1879, his first job. Owned by Mr. Felter who built Nyack...
Fire destroyed the front of Tappan's Old '76 House in 1895, leaving the rooms of the inn and restaurant exposed to the street. The building was restored and was soon back in business. This image was apparently used in a newspaper article. Attached...
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The Honorable George Dickey, a Nyack school trustee in 1879, is dressed in formal wear. He wears glasses, an unusual feature in this set of photographs. From the "Rockland City and Country", October 1885: The Men to Vote for. GEORGE DICKEY....
