Photograph of the recently paved Monroe-Chester Road, looking west, coming into Greycourt. Later to be known as New York State Route 17.
Note: A small section of this paving survives on both sides of the Seely Brook crossing.
Photographs; Villages; Road construction; Streets; Street lights; Street lights; Gas street lamps;water
Photograph, probably taken during the paving of Main Street. Note equipment down the street on the left. Wooden side walks. Kerosene street lamp in center of watering trough. On right: Osborne Chester Market, C.W. Kerner Boots and Shoes.
The Rhinebeck Hotel (later the Beekman Arms) is in the background. Rhinebeck's first steamroller with the highway staff stand in front of the Hotel. Charles Staley, superintendent of the highway crew is in the center with his hand on the wheel.
Many workmen are engaged in road laying tasks. The superstructure of the Tappan Zee Bridge is behind them. A shortage of steel due to the Korean War delayed the original construction of the bridge.
This unusual photograph is dark in the front and very bright in the background. Some kind of construction is happening in the street where we can see several men, barrels, and piles of dirt. A horse-drawn wagon is parked on the right in front of...
This unusual photograph is dark in the front and very bright in the background. Some kind of construction is happening in the street where we can see several men, barrels, and piles of dirt. A horse-drawn wagon is parked on the right in front of...
The South Nyack residence of Dr. Jefferson J. Weishaar, a dentist, is being moved to make way for the Thruway. The house is now on the east side of Piermont Avenue between Cornelison and Mansfield Avenues.
In the foreground, land has been torn up to make way for the NYS Thruway. In the background is the old South Nyack station and a few of the houses of the village. Today the Thruway goes through this area.
Long I-beams connected with braces were assembled before the roadbed of the Thruway was laid down. Here the Tappan Zee Bridge joins the land on the west side of the Hudson River.
A wood frame has been built on River Road in Grand View. Into it will be poured concrete, to form a wall of a huge structure supporting the Thruway as it leaves the Tappan Zee Bridge. The area looks much the same today, with the addition of a...
The Riverama was a unique floating exhibit built on a 1,000 ton barge by New York Trap Rock Corporation. This company was one of America's largest producers of crushed stone with plants and quarries on the Hudson River at Haverstraw, Tomkins Cove,...
To build the New york State Thruway, land was cleared - simply bulldozed - from the top of the rock cut in Central Nyack west to Route 303. One of the children in the picture is Lee Scott, the photographer's son.
