Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; Presidential Libraries -- New York (State) -- Hyde Park; Presidents
On November 19, 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appeared before a gathering of his Hudson Valley neighbors and dignitaries to lay the cornerstone of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library in Hyde Park, New York. His speech that day was broadcast...
Photographs; Banks; Business districts; Fire hydrants; Bricks; Friezes (Entablature components); Sidewalks; Traffic signs & signals;
A traffic light hangs in the middle of the intersection and a street sign identifying this as the corner of Main Street and West Street stands in front of this corner brick bank building. Several elements identify this building including a large...
One end of this two story brick building has a flat corniced roof, and on the other end of the building the roof rises into a gable. A note indicates original use was as a firehouse. In the brickwork, there is evidence of the building's firehouse...
This is a photograph of the Havestraw King's Daughters Public Library Village Branch. It is also known as the 'Fowler Library Building' and these words are etched, along with decorative roping, into the frieze below the bracketed cornice of this...
Photographs; Business districts; Storefronts; Hardware stores; Bricks; Lintels; Automobiles;
This is a view of several brick buildings in a downtown business district. The center building has a bracketed cornice and lintels above the windows. There is a large sign advertising 'Dutch Boy Paints' and the store name 'Shaw-Jobson'. This sign...
This is a large photograph of a 1925 business named the Chester Hutton Store. The building is a brick two-story front-gabled structure with a single story addition on the left side and a covered porch. There are shutters on the upper windows. Signs...
This is a postcard of the Gothic building known as Boulderberg Manor. The house has two steep gables which interrupt the roof-lines. In addition, there are dormers with steep gables on the main portion of the house as well as a cupola. There are...
This slide is a close-up of the building that is the Tomkins Cove Library. There is ivy all along the building's first story and a flagpole flying the American flag in front of the building.
In this slide, the full-building that is the Tomkins Cove Library is seen. The building is covered in Ivy, has a cupola on the roof and a stone wall running along the front and sides of the building's property.
City Club - Newburgh (N.Y.); Downing, Andrew Jackson, 1815-1852; Historic Buildings - New York (State) - Newburgh (N.Y.); Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895
This is a photograph of the City Club, 120 Grand Street, Newburgh, NY, around the turn of the century. The house was originally built circa 1852 by Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux as a home for Dr. William Culbert, a physician who had...
The Hotel St. George on Burd Street is shaded on a summer day by a large tree. A sign on the building's side identifies George Bardin as the proprietor. Another sign on a fence directs customers to the automobile and bicycle shed.
Winston C. Perry, Jr., village historian of Upper Nyack, discusses the history of the Perry family and the historic Van Houten's Landing neighborhood in Upper Nyack.
The mess hall at Camp Bluefields in Blauvelt was a low stone building with a soaring round tower. Wooden balconies and curved gables added a little lift to the building's appearance.
The 1927 Nyack High School, at 131 North Midland Avenue, became a number of educational venues, including a BOCES unit and an alternative high school when a newer high school was built on Christian Herald Road. This building's clock tower is a...
This sturdy brick structure on the west side of Broadway was built by Victor Ackerman in the 1880s for his jewelry business. Unfortunately, the appearance of the store has been altered. A few details of the building's history are found in the 1989...
The engineering department of Wilcox and Gibbs was housed on the building's fourth floor. Draftsmen, engineers and model makers labored here to design the machine parts.
Photograph taken soon after the building's completion. Building functioned as a library, a laboratory, a conference center and also as a nurses residence.
A parade procession marches down a wet street. Most of the marchers visible in the photograph are members of a marching band. Marching band instruments such as drums, tubas, trombones and trumpets are all seen throughout the group of marching band...
This image is of a two-story building that has been heavily damaged by fire. There is a small entry porch leading up to a double front door. Only one of the wooden doors remains. There is a piece of wood crosswise in front of the door. All of the...
