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Title	Rhinebeck Post Office: Incidents Connected with "Ferncliff"
Creator	Dows, Olin, 1904-1981
Date.Original	1940
Contributors	Mural commissioned for Rhinebeck, NY post office by WPA Section of Fine Arts Art in Public Buildings Program, photographed by C.B. Ross and Edward Campeau
Publisher.Original	Dows, Olin, 1904-1981
Description	"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 talking to Mr. and Mrs. Astor (1870). He was for many years Superintendent of "Ferncliff." In the background the tennis building, designed by McKim, Mead and White, is almost finished (1904). Above it the "Mary Powell" famous Hudson River Day Line boat, can be seen. A socially conscious modern painter draws the Italian workmen as they go home. At the right Colonel John Jacob Astor's first car (1901) is helped up the hill by a farm team." At the right, a scene from 1920: "The Decoration Day Parade goes by the Sherwood House built for Henry DeLamater about 1840... It is a particularly happy example of Victorian domestic wood Gothic. The foreground porch railing comes from the Johnston house."(Captions from: "Murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office") The painter is said to be Henry Billings. Billings was chosen to execute four murals as part of the WPA's Fine Arts project, among them the 1939 mural at Wappinger's Falls. From 1936 to 1941, Billings taught at Bard College.
Subject.LCSH	Rhinebeck (N.Y.),Rhinebeck (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc., Rhinebeck (N.Y. : Town), Local history--New York (State) Village communities Artists in their world Mary Powell (Ship)
Subject.TGM	Painting Bridges Dogs Artists architecture
Subject.AAT	murals
Subject.Local	Ferncliff
Personal Name	Ehlers, Charles Augustus McKim, Charles Follen, 1847-1909 Astor, John Jacob, 1864-1912 Mead, William Rutherford, 1846-1928 White, Stanford, 1853-1906 Thomas, Griffith, 1820-1879
Corporate Name	Rhinebeck Post Office, Rhinebeck, NY
Location	Rhinebeck (Town) - Dutchess County - New York
HRVH Topic	Work & Labor Community & Events Arts & Entertainment Daily Life People Recreation
Format.Original	Photograph : b&w
Type	Still image
Source	Olin Dows photograph collection, Bard College Archives
Resource Identifier	bc_dows.murals.029.a
Publisher.Digital	Bard College Archives
Date.Digital	2012
Format.Digital	image/tiff
Digital.Collection	Bard College Dows
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	Original photographs scanned using Epson Perfection V700 Photo Scanner

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