On a winter day, the front of Yonderhill Antiques in Palisades gleams in the sun, framed by the dark bark of several trees. The building was once the Palisades Methodist Church.
Six people pause in their exploration of a Revolutionary War blockhouse in Sneden's Landing (Palisades, New York). The three men on the left have been identified as 1 - Dr. Ward Thomas, 2 - Oscar T. Barck, and 3 - John Ward Dunsmore.
Corliss Lamont, son of financier Thomas Lamont, sits at the base of a tree. He donated land for a sanctuary along the Hudson River south of the Village of Palisades. On the back of the picture is "Corliss Lamont who ran trip." On May 15, 1964 the...
Two girls sit on the horses that pull the Closter Meat Market wagon. H. Conklin was the operator of the business, which was a mobile butcher shop. There is a description of the wagon and its owner in "Palisades and Sneden's Landing: theTwentieth...
The proposed wing for the Community Center to house the Palisades Free Library. In the bottom right hand corner of the drawing, Charles H. Warner Jr. and Walker Field are listed as the architects.
The following caption is next to the picture, "Nearly opposite Dobbs Ferry a pretty cascade tumbles down in a snowy sheet from the upper edge, and falling on the bank below rushes towards the river in a narrow channel. Dobbs' Ferry is the next...
A fountain or watering trough has two lions' heads as spigots. The back says, "Reflecting pool. Snedens waterfall," suggesting that this was part of the sculpture collection at the base of Tonetti Falls just south of Sneden's Landing.
The Sneden House faces the Hudson River and this photo is taken from the back. The two-story sandstone has a porch on the river side, a brick fireplace on the north side, and two dormers in the gambrel roof on the west.
Holstead or "Holly" Post delivered his Mountain Spring Ice to residents of Palisades, NY. The ice was cut at a pond between Oak Tree Road and Closter Road.
A close up of the Erskine-De Witt map, focusing on Dobbs Ferry. Simeon deWitt, 1756-1834, was Geographer and Surveyor General of the Continental Army. Colonial Robert Erskine, 1735-1780, was an engineer from Scotland whoe came to Ringwood, N.J....
Ruins of the Revolutionary War Block House of 1776. As they now exist. Measured by Thos. P. Gilman and W. S. Gilman, on November 7, 1899. This ruin is on the edge of the hill, or cliff, in full view of, and west from, the redoubts erected above...
