This is a photo of an older photograph of the Hand Mansion, the home of William H. Hand, the builder (1830-1898). In 1883 he bought this Azariah Ross house for $9000. Note the three chimneys, the wide porch, and the high peak with a multi-faceted...
This delightfully symmetrical house - every element, it seems, repeated on left and right - is highlighted by the snow and ice. Known as the William Dickey House, it was built about 1850 in the Carpenter Gothic style. Dickey is noted as the builder...
This simple one-and-a-half story house is a typical mid-nineteenth century residence for a family of modest means. The first owner was James Coates, who lived in the house until 1860. All these many years later, the house reflects the builder's...
John Magee, a successful Nyack builder, constructed this house for himself. He also built the Harrison & Dalley block on the north side of Main Street and the First Reformed Church.
This compact house has three windows in the front on both stories. A fine doorway adds a distinguished tone this house. Under the clapboards and siding are brick walls. Known as the Bamber-Austin house, it was built about 1866. James C. Wool may...
This large, stately house is found on the southwest corner of Hart Place and Sixth Avenue. The builder was Mathew Watson Debaun and the original owners were Caroline and Charles Bedell. Many of the original details remain: the wide veranda with the...
This house was a "builder's house;" the client could pick all the details he wanted from a book. In this case, he picked all the details. Here are bargeboards and brackets, balconies and hooded windows, a tower and a porch, and wonderful fish-scale...
This appealing house is a delightful combination of styles: Second Empire - mansard roof, Carpenter Gothic - trim, Italianate - tower, with carved woodwork in the gables, brackets, and balustrades. At the time of building, a client could pick all...
The decorative elements of these brick buildings are typical of the architecture on the north side of Nyack's Main Street, west of Broadway. #86 was originally a bakery built by Oswald Luleich and is the last building with the name of the builder...
The houses on Fifth Avenue have unique ways of dealing with the steepness of the slope. Here a garage has been built under the front porch. 94 has several original architectural elements: the stone foundation, decorative stained glass inserts on...
This house is an example of the late 1880s dwellings built in Nyack for workingmen's families. Unfortunately, the Nyack Library has no history of the builder or the original owner.
A group of businessmen are standing in the Tappan Zee Bank Lobby. In the center and slightly in front of the others is Frank Raso, the builder of the bank. The Tappan Zee Bank was located at the corner of Franklin and Main Streets.
Photograph of Brooks Carriage & Sleigh Factory, located in Downtown Chester on Main Street at Center Street. With the advent of the automobile, it became Brook's Garage. Currently, 2006, this building is occupied by Bodle’s Opera House.
Affixed to the organ in the First Baptist Church of Nyack was this plaque: No. 34, F. J. N. Tallman, Nyack, NY, 1893. Francis J. N. Tallman built pipe organs which were installed in churches across the country.
Inventory form for building located on Camp Comfort Rd. recording the following information: J. Woodhull Overton, M.D. (owner at time of inventory). A one and a half story rectangular, stucco on metal lath, with low gambrel roof, and six gabled...
