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    • 105 Hudson Avenue, Haverstraw

    • 105 Hudson Avenue, Haverstraw

    • Photographs; Houses; Roofs; Dwellings; Automobiles; Gables; Porches; Chimneys;

    • A car is parked at the curb directly in front of this cross-gabled house. The home features a gable decoration and a chimney is on the roof. A lower roofed area extends over the small entry porch and a portion of the home extends into this area as...
    • 121 Piermont Avenue, South Nyack, NY

    • 121 Piermont Avenue, South Nyack, NY

    • Houses; Fences;

    • This tiny saltbox cottage has a single door on the left front and two shuttered windows on the lower floor. The upper half story has two half windows just beneath the roof line. A picket fence frames the tiny front yard. The house is on the east...
    • 125 Cedar Hill Avenue, South Nyack, NY

    • 125 Cedar Hill Avenue, South Nyack, NY

    • Houses; Architectural decorations & ornaments;

    • This dwelling has little written history but has survived with its original architectural elements intact. The fish-scale shingles are not unusual on Nyack houses, but the details of the upper and lower porch balustrades are. The bay window on the...
    • 132 Hudson Avenue, Haverstraw

    • 132 Hudson Avenue, Haverstraw

    • Photographs; Houses; Roofs; Dwellings; Porte cocheres; Shutters; Gables; Shrubs; Stone walls; Towers; Porches; Garages; Spandrels;

    • Two bare trees line the sidewalk that runs in front of the low stone wall at the front of this property. A driveway with concrete curbing cuts through the stone wall and leads through a porte-cochere back to an opened garage. Under the...
    • 14 DePew Avenue, Nyack, NY

    • 14 DePew Avenue, Nyack, NY

    • Houses; Porches; Bay windows;

    • This small house has two features which catch the eye. The half porch wraps around the left side of the house, and on the right, is a bay window that extends down into the basement. Brick siding covers the lower story and rick-rack shingles cover...
    • 14, 16, and 18 High Avenue, Nyack, NY

    • 14, 16, and 18 High Avenue, Nyack, NY

    • Houses;

    • Three of the small houses on lower High Avenue, only a stone's throw from the Hudson River, which were built in the 1800s for working class families. In the 1910 Sanborn map book, all of these homes have front porches. All have been renovated and...
    • 15 Prospect Street, Nyack, NY

    • 15 Prospect Street, Nyack, NY

    • Houses; Dormers;

    • What did this house look like originally? The roof and dormer windows appear to be original but the front entrance have windows on the lower floor have been changed. There was a porch on the back, designed to look out at the Hudson River. It was...
    • 1609 Hudson - Fulton Celebration - 1909

    • 1609 Hudson - Fulton Celebration - 1909

    • Postcards; Celebrations; Ships; Rivers; Calendars;

    • Distant view of the Hudson River with the Half Moon and the Clermont ships, inset images of Henry Hudson on the upper left and Robert Fulton on the lower right. The bottom of the image contains a list of dates and description of activities for the...
    • 184 South Franklin Street, Nyack, NY

    • 184 South Franklin Street, Nyack, NY

    • Houses; Architectural decorations & ornaments;

    • This house displays some fine Gothic details in the hooded windows, the roof pendant, and the porch arches. The upper story is covered with rick-rack shingles while the lower is sided with a narrow clapboard. The tall willow and cedar trees...
    • 1st Street, Haverstraw

    • 1st Street, Haverstraw

    • Photographs; Houses; Roofs; Dwellings; Lintels; Fraternal lodges; Columns; Pediments; Fences;

    • A neon sign in a side window indicating, "BPOE 877" identifies this as the Elks Club building. The building is a two-story brick, Greek Revival structure with a double balcony featuring columns, a frieze, dentils and pediment. The lower porch...
    • 220 DePew Avenue, Nyack, NY

    • 220 DePew Avenue, Nyack, NY

    • Houses; Porches;

    • There's no history of this house. It was probably a frame house before being covered with stucco. The repitition of the upper and lower balustrades suggest that they are original elements.
    • 24 Clinton Avenue, South Nyack, NY

    • 24 Clinton Avenue, South Nyack, NY

    • Houses; Porches;

    • Steep double eaves are a typical village home construction. The lower wing on the right and the sleeping porch are undoubtedly later additions to the original dwelling. This dwelling appears on the 1884 Burleigh map of Nyack. This photograph is...
    • 26 Ackerman Place, Nyack, NY

    • 26 Ackerman Place, Nyack, NY

    • Houses; Porches; Towers;

    • This small dwelling at 26 Ackerman Place is typical of the houses owned by members of the working class in the late 1800s. Although the porch has no lower railing, above the porch is a lattice type balustrade. The tower on the left side is unusual.
    • 26 DePew Avenue, Nyack, NY

    • 26 DePew Avenue, Nyack, NY

    • Houses; Porches;

    • Unfortunately, this well-preserved nineteenth century house has no recorded history. The architectural features are mostly plain, but the upper and lower porch balustrades are detailed and different. It is on the 1884 Burleigh map, "Nyack on the...
    • 267 South Broadway, South Nyack, NY

    • 267 South Broadway, South Nyack, NY

    • Houses; Porches; Towers;

    • This frame residence, built after 1884, has a wonderful collection of Victorian elements: porches with upper and lower balustrades, bargeboards, towers, dormers, bay windows, and decorative siding. In the 1910 Sanborn Map Book, a note says the...

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