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Historic Hudson is a perfect blend of words and photos. ... a riveting history of the Columbia County city. -- Hudson Valley magazine, October 2005
Historic Hudson is a perfect blend of words and photos. -- Hudson Valley magazine, Oct. 2005
So much of the architectural fabric of early Hudson [has]remained intact. Historic Hudson: An Architectural Portrait confirms this survival. -- from the introduction by Rudy Wurlitzer & Lynn Davis
Today there is new awareness of just how valuable, both aesthetically and monetarily, our architectural heritage is. -- from the foreword by John Ashbery
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An architectural gallery of the city of Hudson featuring antique maps and more than 200 photographs, most dating from 1850 to 1930. The city of Hudson, founded in 1783, has been called "a dictionary of American architecture design" because of its many 18th and 19th-century buildings that have survived to the present day. From an unlikely, but very successful, whaling and merchant seaport 120 miles from the sea, to a boom-and-bust factory town, and then to a depressed and failing city with a frontier reputation for prostitution, gambling, and official corruption, the city of Hudson, New York, founded on the shores of the upper Hudson River by New England Quakers in 1783, has recently blossomed into a vibrant antiques and arts center with a national reputation.
Historic Hudson is a perfect blend of words and photos. ... a riveting history of the Columbia County city. -- Hudson Valley magazine, October 2005
Historic Hudson is a perfect blend of words and photos. -- Hudson Valley magazine, Oct. 2005
So much of the architectural fabric of early Hudson [has]remained intact. Historic Hudson: An Architectural Portrait confirms this survival. -- from the introduction by Rudy Wurlitzer & Lynn Davis
Today there is new awareness of just how valuable, both aesthetically and monetarily, our architectural heritage is. -- from the foreword by John Ashbery
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An architectural gallery of the city of Hudson featuring antique maps and more than 200 photographs, most dating from 1850 to 1930. The city of Hudson, founded in 1783, has been called "a dictionary of American architecture design" because of its many 18th and 19th-century buildings that have survived to the present day. From an unlikely, but very successful, whaling and merchant seaport 120 miles from the sea, to a boom-and-bust factory town, and then to a depressed and failing city with a frontier reputation for prostitution, gambling, and official corruption, the city of Hudson, New York, founded on the shores of the upper Hudson River by New England Quakers in 1783, has recently blossomed into a vibrant antiques and arts center with a national reputation.
Through these cultural and economic ups and downs, much of the city's remarkable architectural legacy somehow survived the plagues of the centuries, making Hudson today "a dictionary of American architecture." As remarkable as the survival of so many of Hudson's 18th and 19th-century buildings, is the survival of a magnificent collection of photographs intimately documenting the city from the 1850s to the 1920s, published herein for the first time.
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The ships in the harbor at the river's edge displayed their colors from every mast, flags were raised from every eminence, and thirteen cannon were fired in celebration on May 3, 1785, when Ezekiel Gilbert, Esq., having come up the Hudson River from New York City, delivered the charter for the new city of Hudson. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
looking uptown, looking downtown, stick style, original proprietors, cement company Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Historic Hudson, Fourth Street, Greek Revival, South Bay, Hudson River, Collection of Harry, Union Street, State Street, New York City, Seventh Street, Allen Street, Claverack Landing, Gothic Revival, Parade Hill, Third Street, Front Street, Seth Jenkins, Thomas Jenkins, Van Hoesen, Diamond Street, Fifth Street, Hudson Iron Works, United States, Collection of Jeremiah Rusconi, Queen Anne New!
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The ships in the harbor at the river's edge displayed their colors from every mast, flags were raised from every eminence, and thirteen cannon were fired in celebration on May 3, 1785, when Ezekiel Gilbert, Esq., having come up the Hudson River from New York City, delivered the charter for the new city of Hudson. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
looking uptown, looking downtown, stick style, original proprietors, cement company Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Historic Hudson, Fourth Street, Greek Revival, South Bay, Hudson River, Collection of Harry, Union Street, State Street, New York City, Seventh Street, Allen Street, Claverack Landing, Gothic Revival, Parade Hill, Third Street, Front Street, Seth Jenkins, Thomas Jenkins, Van Hoesen, Diamond Street, Fifth Street, Hudson Iron Works, United States, Collection of Jeremiah Rusconi, Queen Anne New!
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- The American Scene (Penguin Classics) by Henry James in Front Matter, and page 138
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