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The largest event in Nyack’s history.” Rockland County Journal, July 8, 1876 Cannons boomed. Train whistles shrieked. Church and school bells rang across the...
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At the height of the Gilded Age, a massive stone mansion crowned Nyack’s hillside above the Hudson, signaling that extraordinary wealth had arrived in...
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James S. Aspinwall did not arrive in Nyack as a speculator or a Gilded Age magnate. He came earlier, nearly a decade before building...
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Hammers rang through the air and saws rasped as piles of brick and stone rose across Nyack during the Gilded Age. Downtown brick buildings...
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“The most prominent building in Nyack when seen from the river is the Tappan Zee House.” —Joseph Richards, The Independent, August 17, 1861 A Golden...
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Chrystenah, named in honor of the mother of its owners, was among the most beautiful and fastest steamboats on the lower Hudson River during...
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Barons of Broadway #32 In this episode, we return to J.A. Bennet’s Gilded Age villa at 309 North Broadway, which Alvin Johnson acquired in...
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Barons of Broadway #31 The intricate details of the colorful Queen Anne Victorian at 309 North Broadway in Upper Nyack continue to amaze villagers...
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In Julian Davidson’s 1889 wood engraving, a ten-oar barge carrying formally dressed couples rides perilously low in the moonlit Tappan Zee chop as it...
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Barons of Broadway #26 Hugh Maxwell’s large Upper Nyack estate entered a new chapter even before the contentious resolution of his will. In 1890,...