"Incidents connected with "Ferncliff." It was bought by William Astor in 1858, the present house being built in 1860 from plans by Griffith Thomas. The grounds were laid out by Charles Augustus Ehlers and his son Louis, who is seen above the bridge...
Preliminary artist's sketch for Panels 9 and 10 of Rhinebeck Post Office Mural. Panel 9: "1865. A local family in Winter's Express is moving out West. In the foreground cutter sits Mr. DeLamater just made the first President of the First National...
Deed, dated May 19th, 1755, documenting the sale of 42 3/4 acres of one James Ensign to John Yelverton for the sum of 97 pounds and 4 shillings. This is most of the acreage on which the village of Chester developed.
Photograph of Mark Roe sitting on the stone wall in front of Daniel Crommelin's Gray Court Plantation Mansion, posing as he did in 1938 for the photograph taken by his grandfather, Hamlet S. Roe, published in "Old Orange houses," by Mildred Parker...
Iron industry; Industrial facilities; Photographic prints
Hudson Iron Works building, Hudson, New York, with railroad tracks and South Bay in the foreground. The village of Athens is visible across the Hudson River. This photograph is a modern copy print; the original image appears to have been a glass...
The Meadows a stone house, which may have been designed by Alexander Jackson Davis, was built in the Gothic Revival style for Mr. and Mrs. William P. Wainwright. The house was extensively remodeled and renamed Leacote by Douglas Merritt. The house...
The hay press was a machine used to bale loose cut hay. The press was built of a square chamber of heavy planks of wood. It was the forerunner of the modern hay baler. In this photo, a farm worker is standing on the hay press while another worker...
