A clipping reporting on the 1907 Reunion of 124th Regiment Association and dedication of the Bradley Monument: "The Standard Bearer" a memorial to the service dead of the famous Orange County Civil War unit, the "Orange Blossoms."
A riverfront dock leads to two boathouses. The boathouses are each two stories tall. Behind the boathouses, stands the main house. A prominent rounded tower with pointed roof extends up from the main house. A steep, treed hill is behind the main...
This is a two-story Georgian style home with a side-gabled roof and chimneys extending from each end of the roof. All the windows, except the attic windows, have dark shutters. The front door features a transom window and there are small lights...
Photographs; Houses; Roofs; Dwellings; Dormers; Mansard roofs; Bay windows; Architectural decorations & ornaments; Bay windows;
Photograph is of a three-story Second Empire home with a mansard roof. A chimney and four dormers extend from the roof. A window-mounted air conditioner extends from one of the dormer windows on the front of the house. The roof has diamond shaped...
The Congers - Rockland Lake stagecoach stands in front of a large stable building, which was behind the old Tappan Zee Playhouse. The horse at the front of the coach is not harnessed to it. A carriage is inside the barn. Three men and a small girl...
Two automobiles and four horse and carriages - livery rigs- line up in Church Street next to a large brick building.This building housed Van Houten's Stables in an earlier era.
Six woodworkers stand in a huge workroom that's filled with wood and cutting tables. The floor is covered with wood shavings and narrow pieces of wood are stored in the rafters. The location of the shop is unknown.
The Hudson River and the Westchester hills are seen through a screen of bare winter trees, probably near Hook Mountain. Frank Brush was a photographer who lived in Upper Nyack on Van Houten Street near Broadway. In the 1890 Directory he's listed as...
Gene Brown, author of Birds over Bear Mountain and a life-long resident of Upper Nyack, talks about his childhood, his education at the Upper Nyack School and the games and recreational activities children played in the Van Houten's Landing...
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...
Upper Nyack village historian Win Perry takes a walk around the Van Houten’s landing historic district discussing the history of the neighborhood, its homes and its residents. Along the way he talks with Eugene Brown of 10 Castle Heights...
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.
Fire fighters; Fire engines & equipment; Fire fighting; Fire stations;
Everett "Smoky" Wanamaker talks about Empire Hook and Ladder Company in Upper Nyack and the role of the Wanamkaer family in the department. The origins of "The Goosetown against the World" slogan of the department are discussed as well as some of...
Jo Peabody and Jeanne Peabody Walsh remember their husband and father, Paul Peabody. Paul was born in 1931 and died in 2002. He was a puppeteer and the author of the children's book, Blackberry Hollow. They also fondly recall life in the...
