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Carrollcliffe, now the Castle Hotel & Spa, and also having been known as Axe Castle, is a building in Tarrytown, New York which was constructed to resemble a European castle, with crenellated towers. [1] It was built of stone in two stages, in 1897 and 1910, and has towers and turrets.
At NY 32 on the Hudson River: Mechanicville: Powerhouse, earth embankment, concrete non-overflow dam, and 700 feet long concrete gravity overflow dam built in 1897-1898. 41: Mohawk Valley Grange Hall: Mohawk Valley Grange Hall
Now known as Historic Hudson Valley, it continues to operate under the same charter. Rockefeller, who had a life-long philanthropic interest in the restoration and preservation of places of historic importance, had previously provided funding for several such projects, most notably the establishment of Colonial Williamsburg in the late 1920s.
The Hudson Valley was inhabited by indigenous peoples ages before Europeans arrived. The Algonquins lived along the Hudson River, with the three subdivisions of that group being the Lenape (also known as the Delaware Indians), the Wappingers, and the Mahicans. [2] The lower Hudson River was inhabited by the Lenape Indians. [3]
Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. [1] The Caribbean Motel in Wildwood Crest, New Jersey [2]. Historic Hotels of America is a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation that was founded in 1989 with 32 charter members; the program identifies hotels in the United States that have maintained authenticity, sense of place, and architectural integrity from their respective time periods.
On April 24, 2005, after severe protest from the Hudson Valley community and environmentalists, St. Lawrence Cement abandoned the Greenport project. Since 1992 Scenic Hudson and its conservation partners have contributed to the protection of more than 2,400 acres in the Olana Viewshed. In 2015, a conservation easement protected views from ...
Great Houses of the Hudson River. Preface by Mark Rockefeller. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, in association with Historic Hudson Valley. ISBN 0-8212-2767-X. Moore, Lela (1921) A Brief History of Tivoli (pamphlet) pp. 11–14
The Scarborough Historic District is a national historic district located in the suburban community of Scarborough-on-Hudson, in Briarcliff Manor, New York.The 376-acre (152 ha) district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and contains seven historically and architecturally significant properties dating from the late 18th century to the early 20th century.