"Houses on the Hudson"
Architectural Prints by George Ellsworth Shear
Available for Purchase (25% of proceeds go to RCHS)
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Painted Ladies
Depicting the most elaborate of all the Victorian residential styles in Upstate NY.
$125 each 16x16 (Print Only)
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Wilderstein
was built by the Suckley family in the late 19th century.
Wilderstein is a vintage Queen Anne style house in an unspoiled setting
above the Hudson River. Margaret Suckley, cousin and companion to FDR,
gave the house and grounds to the Wilderstein Preservation in 1983.
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Batcheller Mansion
was built in 1873 by the architectural firm
of Nichols & Halcott for George Sherman Batcheller. The plans
for the house were considered so unique and its modern features so
effective that they were copyrighted. It is an architectural pastiche of High Victorian Eclecticism combining French
Renaissance Revival, Italianate and Egyptian influences.
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Second Avenue
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North Street
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Other Prints
$100 each 14x16 (Print Only)
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Monument Square
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Washington Park
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Historic Homes
$175.00 each 17x22 (Print Only)
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James Vanderpoel House
Local
attorney James Vanderpoel built this home on Broad Street in
1820.Occupied by several families through the years, the property was
acquired by theColumbia County Historical Society in 1925, and is
an outstanding example of the early 19th century Federal Style.
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Hyde Park
Frederick Vanderbilt purchased this property
in 1895, and had the architectural firm McKim, Mead and White design
this classical Beaux Arts mansion.
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Boscobel
is an
elegant Federal period home completed just after 1800. It was
relocated and restored on the present site in 1956, by Boscobel
Restoration Inc. with funds provided primarily by Lila Acheson Wallace.
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Clermont
served seven generations of the Livingston
family. It is a National Historic Landmark, and the property of the New
York State Office of Historic Preservation.
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Kykuit
was the country home for four generations of the Rockefeller family.
The estate is open to visitors and is maintained by the
Rockefeller Brothers Fund as a center of philanthropic programs.
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Lyndhurst
was designed in 1838 by Andrew Jackson Davis
in the Gothic Revival style for the Paulding family, and was purchased
and enlarged by the railroad magnet in Jay Gould in 1880.
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Montgomery Place
was family home of Livingston family for 180 years. The
original and more modest residence was transformed in the middle of the
18th-century, in the Classical Revival style, by A.J. Davis.
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Olana
was the home of the
Hudson River School painter, Frederic Edwin Church, who spent much of
his life overseeing the construction of this Moorish style residence
and the surrounding landscape.
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Philipsburg Manor
was built as an 18th-century trading center,
owned by a dutch merchant and operated by African slaves;- The manor is
a property of Historic Hudson Valley.
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Springwood
is the much loved ancestral home of Franklin
D. Roosevelt. The estate and FDR library are open to the public, and
are administered by the National Park Service.
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Sunnyside
was Washington Irving's 1840's fanciful and
romantic cottage. Sunnyside has been designated a National Historic
Landmark, and is a property of Historic Hudson Valley.
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Van Cortlandt Manor
is a rare survivor of a building type once
common to the area. A National Historic Landmark, the Van Cortlandt is
a property of Historic Hudson Valley.
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Manhattan Portals
Wildly eclectic
entrances to Manhattan commercial buildings built below 23rd Street
early in the 20th century and after the first World War.
$125 each 16x16 (Print Only)
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Portal One
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Portal Two
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Portal Four
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Portal Five
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