Looking east to Gilchrest barn down a dirt road, which is presently known as "Gateway" - the entrance to Applewood Manor and the site of the former Noyes orchard.
Overlook Academy, once Bannister's Rockland College, stood west of Route 9W at head of Sickles Avenue. The building burned to the ground in 1914. Deep snow prevented saving it. The antique car was perhaps a Stanley Steamer.
This 100-year-old photograph is remarkably crisp. A loaded hay wagon is pulled by two horses. A boy rides one horse and a man and a woman ride on the hay.
Here is a remarkably crisp and clear image of Nyack in the late nineteenth century. Wide sidewalks line the dirt thoroughfare. The mode of transportation is the horse and buggy. The photo highlights Blauvelt Drugs with the dentist, Dr. Gilchrest...
This aerial view of Nyack was probably taken from atop South Mountain. Buldings that can be identified include the Onderdonk Block, the row houses on Bridge Street, the Commercial Building and the Voorhis Block, the steeples of St. Anne's Church,...
John Lodico, Sr. talks about growing up in Upper Nyack near the river in the Van Houten's Landing neighborhood near the river. He focuses on the Italian American immigrant culture there, particularly as epitomized by his father, his time at Nyack...
This early twentieth century postcard is a reproduction and was one of a set of six produced by the foundation which purchased Edward Hopper's boyhood home in Nyack. Rockland Bicycle Works was in a one-story building at 137 Main Street in 1902. A...
Ten eighth-graders from the Upper Nyack School sit proudly on a small stage. From left to right they are Chotzie Drumm, Edna Shiffer, Elmer Waterson, Betty Wadsworth, Clinton Savoury, Jerry Griffith, Harold Mackey, Gerry Gilchrest, Juny Hall,...
This large and unusual house has a Dutch-gabled roof, a tower with crenellations, and a Queen Anne tower. A porch wraps around the entire house. The barn in the background is trimmed with white. This complex belonged to Steven Rowe Bradley.
A decorated Victorian room with a dentist's chair, with light and drill above it, and dental tool cabinet in the back left corner.The typewritten note says, "All the comforts of home in the dental office shared by Dr. John T. Gilchrest and his...
