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Title	Cedar Hill Cottage
Creator	Eggert, C.
Date.Original	unknown
Publisher.Original	Eggert, C.
Description	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 in Cedar Hill Cottage in the 1870s: "A funny little house it was; not un picturesque outside; but terribly cramped and inconvenient my mother must have found it...Mr. Bard had built it originally, for his laborers; a two family house built long and low; each with its own doorway, stairs and chimney two rooms downstairs; on each side of the little hallway, two up. The ceilings were so low that Uncle Pierre could put his hand on them. The windows were latticed casements, and there were two dormers in the roof in front, opening into the upper halls, two in the back which opened into the middle bedrooms; and two windows in the gables, which lighted the end rooms. You will perceive that no bedroom had more than one window, which I suppose was considered sufficient for poor folks...The outlook from the front of the house was by no means interesting, consisting principally of some old barns; but at the back there was a pretty view over fields, creek and woods, with a glimpse of Roundtop peeping between the trees where they fell away a little from the mouth of the creek. This was the view I had from my bedroom window; though to enjoy it I had to perch on the broad arm of an old wooden chair."
Subject.LCSH	Photographs Annandale-on-Hudson (N.Y.)
Subject.TGM	Buildings Fences Electric lines Dwellings
Subject.Local
Corporate Name	Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Location	Annandale-on-Hudson - Dutchess County - New York
HRVH Topic	Architecture Landscape & Nature
Format.Original	photograph : b&w ; 4 x 3 in. (10 x 8 cm.)
Type	Still Image
Resource Identifier	bc_arch.cdhl.001.a
Publisher.Digital	Bard College Archives
Date.Digital	2007-11-05
Format.Digital	image/jpeg
Digital.Collection	Bard College Architecture, Past and Present
Holding Institution	Bard College Archives, Stevenson Library, Bard College
Contact Information	1 Library Road, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 (845) 758-7396 http://www.bard.edu/archives/digitalcoll.htm
Rights	Prior written permission required to use any photograph from the Bard College Archives.
Technical Data	Archival TIFF - MicroTek ScanMaker 6800; Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0; dpi; 24 bit color; RGB; bytes ; pixels; no compression

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