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The Gossips of Rivertown: Icebergs in August

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Friday, August 7, 2015. There's nothing like a good story, and this year's Olana summer fundraising party has a great story as its inspiration. In 1859, Frederic Church and his friend Louis Legrand Noble took a month-long schooner cruise in the North Atlantic, in the vicinity of Labrador and Newfoundland. The monumental painting The Icebergs. Was an outcome of that adventure. When the painting was unveiled in New York on April 24, 1861, the New-York Daily Tribune. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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The Gossips of Rivertown: Fool Me Once . . .

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Thursday, August 6, 2015. Fool Me Once . . . After an extended hiatus, work has resumed at 215 Union Street- the house once believed would be the c. 1810 house that stood at 900 Columbia Street "reassembled. By the time the project came before the Historic Preservation Commission in January 2014. The notion of reassembling the 200-year-old house had been reduced to reusing some of the materials salvaged during its demolition: the bricks, the door surround, and the limestone window sills. Terry Law and Ll...

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The Gossips of Rivertown: What Can Done With the Dunn Building

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Friday, August 7, 2015. What Can Done With the Dunn Building. In a meeting that lasted for an hour and a half on Wednesday evening, representatives of Saratoga Associates presented the findings of the feasibility study on the Dunn building, one of the last surviving industrial buildings on Hudson's waterfront. Someone who had attended the presentation on July 1. Which had not been open to the public, told Gossips. To describe the concepts presented, others (privately) chose the adjective generic. The thi...

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The Gossips of Rivertown: Hudson in 1905: Part 5

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Friday, August 31, 2012. Hudson in 1905: Part 5. The following is an excerpt from the booklet. Illustrated Hudson, N.Y., published in 1905. Illustrated Hudson, N.Y. North corner- 48 South Front Street. South corner- 52 South Front Street. 42 South Front Street. August 31, 2012 at 1:40 PM. The 1910 census shows Frank T. Langlois family at 48 South Front Street. August 31, 2012 at 3:17 PM. Thank you, Chad! Thats evidence enough for me to conclude that Curtiss House was on the north corner of South Front an...

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The Gossips of Rivertown: House History and House Mystery

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Friday, August 7, 2015. House History and House Mystery. Last summer, the kitchen addition at the Dr. Oliver Bronson House, built toward the end of the 19th century, was removed. And this summer, work is underway to restore the south wall of the house, where the addition had been. Identical wainscoting is found on the interior wall of the bay, below the windows, so the presumption is that this piece was dislodged during the ongoing work on the foundation in this area of the building. Show that you value.

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The Gossips of Rivertown: Ear to the Ground

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Wednesday, July 1, 2015. Ear to the Ground. Has received word that two studies of interest to the citizens of Hudson have been completed, but it seems it will be a while before the public learns the results of either one of them. The first is the outcome of the item by item analysis of the single bid received. And the value engineering for the police and court building. That all involved are "working to stay with the plan submitted to OCA. The second is the feasibility study. At this very moment, the fin...

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The Gossips of Rivertown: What's Planned for Jonesburg

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Wednesday, August 5, 2015. What's Planned for Jonesburg. A drive out south of Hudson recently on Route 9 caused me to wonder, as I always do, about the plans for the little row of houses built by Fred W. Jones in the 1880s for his workers at the New York Shell Marble and Coral Company. Jonesburg in 1926 Photo courtesy Peter Cipkowski. Last winter, Gossips. That it hasn't been decided if the original clapboard will be restored, or if the houses will be re-sided. This row of houses was not built by Fred W&...

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The Gossips of Rivertown: The Scandal of 1922: Part VI

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Thursday, August 6, 2015. The Scandal of 1922: Part VI. He and Cunningham were introduced to two Hudson women whom "Knocker" Alger brought up in an automobile and introduced to them in front of the Worth House. Then they went to the Race place. He refused to answer any questions as to improper relations with these women. He stated that on the occasion of these trips to the Race place he charged the expenses of these trips to the agency. In reply to a question as to whether he and Cunningham had hired an ...

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The Gossips of Rivertown: The Scandal of 1922: Part I

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Thursday, July 30, 2015. The Scandal of 1922: Part I. Thanks to Bruce Hall's popular book Diamond Street. Most of us are familiar with the story of how, in June 1950, Governor Thomas Dewey ordered a state police raid on Hudson to shut down the city's brothels and gambling dens. When the roof fell in on his law enforcement career, Cruise had been chief for only four years and a few months. When he was promoted from sergeant to chief in December 1917, the Columbia Republican. On March 14, 1922. Of the raid...

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The Gossips of Rivertown: The Scandal of 1922: Part VII

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Saturday, August 8, 2015. The Scandal of 1922: Part VII. We are now into the second day of testimony in the trial of Chief John Cruise, charged with dereliction of duty by the Commission of Public Safety for allowing the "sale of intoxicants and prostitution" to exist in Hudson. Before reporting the testimony offered during this session of the hearing, the Columbia Republican. For May 9, 1922. As soon as a few details of arrangements had been made, President Whitbeck of the Commission, acting as the pres...