This simple frame dwelling is located on lower Burd Street, below Piermont Avenue. On the 1884 map, "Nyack on the Hudson," it is located just west of the multi-story Smithsonian Hotel, which faced the Hudson River. The house was recently restored.
Advertisements; African Americans; Blacks; Boarding schools; Fund raising; Indians of North America; Schools
Advertisement for a fundraising event at the Chester Presbyterian Church for benefit of the Hampton Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute which was founded on the banks of the Virginia Peninsula by Brigadier General Samuel Chapman Armstrong in...
A newspaper article reporting a slave ship captured along the coast of Cuba in 1857. The captives, aged from ten to eighteen years, described as unfortunate creatures, taken from a place called Kabinda, on the coast of Africa. Of the 500 taken,...
Newspaper clipping relates an early history of the fresh milk dairy industry. Believe written by Edward Harold Mott, famed author of “Between the Ocean and the Lakes; The Story of Erie.”
Astrith Deyrup talks about her family and life in Upper Nyack and New York City. Astrith's father, Alvin S. Johnson was the 1st President of the New School for Social research in Manhattan. Her sister Felicia was a prominent artist. Both she and...
Inventory form for building located on Continental Rd; on alley recording the following information: Claude I. Dyan, M.D. (owner at time of inventory). Shingle style; 2 1/2-story; rectangular; pedimented enclosed entrance w/ transoms and...
Inventory form for building located on Wee Wah Rd. recording the following information: Richard L. Richardson (owner at time of inventory). A two and a half story frame structure, completely shingled. Hipped asbestos roof with shed dormers on all...
Inventory form for building located on Lakeview Rd; east side; west of Ridge Rd. recording the following information: Edgar Bartolucci (owner at time of inventory). A one story rectilinear 'pavilion'. Steel frame with glass, stucco and wooden...
Emily Olssen Bleeker lived at in Cedar Hill Cottage as a child when her father, the Rev. William Whittingham Olssen taught at St. Stephen's in the late 19th. century. Her recently published memoir 'A New York Lady' includes a passage about living...
Church schools; Churches; Clippings;Cycling; Farm life; Floods; Homicides; War;
Newspaper clipping with stories of the first one hundred years of the Chester Presbyterian Church and its ministers. Clipping also includes other short unrelated articles of local interest.
Foundations; Construction; Construction workers; Building construction; Building materials; Hospitals
Photograph taken after the laying of the Community Circle foundation, during primary construction. Recently built extension (1924) is in the background. Five workers during initial construction.
Deed to Seat number 36 in the new Meeting House for the First Presbyterian Church recently built at Chester to Nathaniel H. Gale. February 25, 1830. July 1, 1835, Nathaniel H. Gale transfers the seat to Francis Tuthill.
