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Looking south from Main Street, Broadway is lined with businesses in a time when automobiles had not yet taken over the streets. On the left is the Moeller Block, every building both a business and a residence. On the right is the newly built...
McMonegal is written on the back of this picture. In the 1930s, the McMonegals lived in South Nyack but in 1970, Morgan and his mother, Mary, lived on Sixth Avenue. With the spire of St. Ann's Church in the background, this must be the house on...
Looking west from Broadway, Main Street is cluttered with small businesses. Many of the stores on the north side have the striped awnings which were popular at the time. Schmitt's Ice Cream and Confectionery has a large sign that stands out.The...
The RPW dock in Haverstraw was the site of a public telephone. Behind the dock is a steamboat, unidentified. The stamp on the back says, "Ralph Pica, Tonsorial Artist, Haverstraw, NY."
The Rev. J. H. Gunning was the pastor of the Nyack Baptist Church in 1882 when the cornerstone for a new brick edifice was laid. His photograph is listed as one of the many items deposited in the cornerstone.
The interior of this living is typically Victorian, crammed with objects and furniture. A table and chairs are in the center, and a larger chair is at the right. There is a fireplace in the far wall. a large kerosene chandelier is above the table....
Fifteen men, in jackets and hats, pose outside a brick building. We do not know who they were or where the picture was taken. One man, on the left of the middle row, is older than the others.
A family (or group of friends) has arranged itself around a tree. There are two women, six children, and a rather large dog. Almost everyone in the picture is wearing a hat!
These buildings were just west of Cedar Street on Main Street in Nyack. The grocery or meat market on the left, #113 Main, was owned by Benjamin DeJong. Next was the liquor store of Charles De Martini. Koehler's Market, with an awning over the...
This stone plaque commemorating the Nyack Union Free School is in front of the Hopper House. "Erected 1866. Rebuilt 1884. Board of Education - DePew, Blauvelt, Kline, Tasman, Chapman, DeBaun" is inscribed on the stone.
A driveway leads past a pond on the right. In the distance is a large mansion. The location is unknown but may be the back of the Prospect House a large hotel that looked over the Village of Nyack.
A large house with a cupola has many windows on both the first and second floors.Two large bay windows are on the left side. On the front is a wide porch with an unusual staircase. The yard has many varieties of trees.
Hill and Hubbell, a business at 93 Main Street in Nyack from 1906-1914, sold painting and wallpapering supplies and offered paperhanging and decorating services. We do not know if the man in the picture is Hill or Hubbell.
Myra Starr and a friend stand in front of 19 Bridge Street, Nyack, a rental once owned by Myra's father.This block on Bridge Street has Nyack's only row houses. Myra is on the right.
A graveled road with a stone wall runs alongside the Hudson River. Is this near Hook Mountain? The cove looks very much like the area of the present-day Nyack Beach State Park, but the image predates the building of the park.
Here is a view of the front of the house which is pictured in Nyack library image #4040. Note the unusual number of windows on the front side and in the cupola. The house is close to the dirt road but kept apart from traffic by a rail fence and a...
