Architecture; buildings; houses; dwellings; Porches; Outdoor furniture; Bay windows;
Black and white postcard showing The Hand Mansion in Nyack, NY. Description on back of postcard reads " The Hand Mansion 122 South Franklin, South Nyack, New York. This exquisite Gothic Revival house of c. 1853 overlooks a panoramic view of...
The Voorhis Office 147 Piermont Avenue, South Nyack, New York. The orientation of this Gothic revival house is toward the majestic beauty of the Hudson River. Built c. 1850, this building served as the office of Commodore William Voorhis, a Nyack...
259 Piermont Avenue, South Nyack, New York. This is one of the numerous towers which can be found over the rooftops in the Nyacks. It is a carpenter's extravaganza with its triangular and diamond shaped windows, brackets, dentels, board and batten.
The artist has numbered and labeled many architectural features of a Dutch-Flemish sandstone house, using the Smith House of Spring Valley, NY, as a guide. This style of architecture is unique to the Hudson River Valley.
The architectural features of a Gothic Revival Country villa, based on the house at 16 First Avenue in Nyack, include chimney pots, dripstones, trefoil gingerbread, and Doric capitals.
#38 Glen Byron Avenue, South Nyack, New York. Built c. 1872, this dwelling displays great visual energy with its footloose fling of jigsaw whimsy. Also, the original slate roof has a lovely rosette pattern.
The architectural features of a High Victorian home, like the house at 59 Jefferson Street, Nyack, include fish scale slate shingles, double bracketed eaves and bargeboard, colonettes, and a second story balcony.
This charming Gothic Revival cottage of the 1860's, with its beautiful set of steep gabled dormers and pointed gothic windows, overlooks the Hudson River. The elaborate decoration of cutwood under the arches is called a vergeboard or bargeboard.
Built c. 1875, this Mansard style home with its round capped dormers, double bracketed eaves, and dominating side tower crowned with a beautiful cupola, is one of the most charming in the Nyack area.
The Hand Mansion, 122 South Franklin, South Nyack, New York. This exquisite Gothic revival house of 1853 overlooks a panoramic view of the Hudson River valley. It was built in the pre-Civil War era by the noted Nyack builder of the day, Azariah...
The architectural features of the small Mansard style house at 20 Sixth Avenue, Nyack, include rosette pattern shingles, double and single brackets, spandrels, and cusps.
Empire Hook and Ladder occupies a brick Victorian building on Broadway in Upper Nyack. On the left side is a tall bell tower with a flying goose at the top. The center bay holds one truck. There are meeting rooms on the second floor.
The pre-revolutionary sandstone house has a single front door, shuttered ground floor windows, and three dormers. Nearby, in 1783, George Washington was entertained by Commander-in-Chief of the British army, Sir Guy Carlton, aboard the H. M. S....
