51316.
Cannon St. Po’keepsie, NY. From Market St. looking east.
Poughkeepsie
51317.
Bisbee’s Military Institute in distance, Poughkeepsie, NY.
51318.
Main St. in winter, Po’keepsie, NY. Photograph Gallery at left center.
51319.
Main St., Po’keepsie, NY. Photograph Gallery at left center.
51321.
Main St., Poughkeepsie, NY.
51322.
Pardee Block, Po’keepsie, NY. Built 1872. Built by Josephine Walker Pardee, Samuel Lyon Walker’s (early Poughkeepsie daguerreian photographer) daughter. It stands on the corner of Main and Garden, and replaced a number of buildings, among which was the one that housed her father’s studio. She also continues the block around the corner and down Garden Street. They all remain standing today. The great fire that burned the NW corner of Garden and Main was on Dec. 26, 1870. By April 11, 1872, the new Pardee Block had opened with an article describing “The Pardee Block..Completion of the Finest Building in the City.” It went up in 10 months, costing between $28,000-36,000. The building’s most prominent feature was its cast-iron front, manufactured by John Roach’s Aetna Iron Works in NYC, the same company responsible for many of the cast-iron buildings in the district of the same name. The article stated, “The heavy cornice of galvanized iron, the Corinthian pillars, together with the general ornaments in the front, make it the leading feature amount the attraction of the Main St. promenade.” [Thanks to Kurt Moldoff]
51323.
Interior Eastman College, Po’keepsie, NY.
51324.
College Hill, Po’keepsie, NY.
51325.
Interior of First Congregational Church, Christmas 1874, Mill St., Poughkeepsie, NY.
51326.
Hudson River, Poughkeepsie, NY.
51327.
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.
51328.
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.
51329.
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.
51330.
View at Poughkeepsie, NY.
51331.
Hudson River looking South from Po’keepsie, NY.
51332.
Hudson River R.R. near Po’keepsie, NY.
51333.
Interior View of Howard’s Drug Store, 265 Main St., Poughkeepsie, NY.
51334.
Interior View of Howard’s Drug Store, 265 Main St., Poughkeepsie, NY.
51335.
View of College Hill No. 12. Shows a steam engine train. Looks like the tender is in the shed probably being filled with wood or coal.
51336.
Cook’s Collegiate Institute, Poughkeepsie, NY. Long before the opening of Vassar College, there existed a desire to educate young ladies in the city of Poughkeepsie. As a matter of fact, several schools popped up in the mid-19th century that strongly encouraged a proper education for girls. They included the Poughkeepsie Female Academy, located on Cannon Street, the Mansion Square Female Seminary, and the College Hill Female Seminary. This school pictured here went by a few different names, but lasted longer than the others: the Poughkeepsie Female Collegiate Institute, a.k.a. Cook’s Collegiate, a.k.a. Lyndon Hall School. The year was 1848, and small schools had been popping up all over Poughkeepsie. Dr. Charles H.P. McLellan was in the midst of creating a school dedicated to giving young ladies the knowledge to establish themselves as housewives or teachers. McLellan wanted to create a school that was small and selective, with room enough for some students to live, but also able to cater to those who could commute. The school was located on the corner of Catharine and Mill Streets. It began as a small brick building, which opened in 1849. The first graduating class was in 1850 and had only four girls; two from Poughkeepsie, one from Fishkill, and one from Staten Island. In the 1850s, the cost for a year at the school was about $200, which included a furnished room. In 1862, the school was sold to the Reverend C.D. Rice, who continued to operate it as the Poughkeepsie Female Collegiate Institute until the 1870s, when Professor George W. Cook bought the school and the name changed to Cook’s Collegiate Institute. During his tenure, Cook included a course that prepared girls for freshman year at the newly established Vassar College. The young ladies published a monthly editorial known as “The Tyro,” which could be found around town and included pieces written by the students on matters such as travel, natural sciences, and poetry. In 1875, they began to produce the “Alumnae Quarterly,” which showcased the writing talents of those who had graduated, including a passionate piece by A. Harwood on the need for women to have access to higher education. In it, Harwood questioned why women were still not being given the chance to improve, as God intended them, and proffered that there was more to being a woman than commonly believed. The school changed names again in 1884 when Professor Samuel Wells Buck, previously the principal at Poughkeepsie High School, purchased the building, along with his wife who worked with him as a teacher. The Bucks renamed it The Lyndon Hall School and kept it going for another 25 years, until 1909. The Alumnae of the school were still making news into the 20th century when some of them served overseas as teachers during the First World War. By 1921, the building had been converted into apartments. The building was eventually demolished and recently it was a municipal parking lot. [Shannon Butler]
51337.
Vassar College Museum, Poughkeepsie, NY.
51338.
Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY.
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Vassar College Museum, Poughkeepsie, NY.
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Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY.
51341.
Lady Washington Hose, Poughkeepsie, NY.
51342.
Vassar College. The Riding School. 1874.
51343.
Vassar College from the door of the Observatory, 1874.
51344.
Vassar College, 1874. Main building from Gateway.
51345.
Welzello? School, Poughkeepsie, NY.
51346.
Untitled, probably Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY.
51347.
Jewett? School, Poughkeepsie. Several of the boys hold baseball bats.
51348.
Venus de Medici, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY.
51349.
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.
51350.
The Lake at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.
51351.
Court House, Poughkeepsie, NY.
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Fountain, Poughkeepsie, NY. The Soldiers’ Memorial Fountain and Park is significant for its association with local efforts to develop city parks in Poughkeepsie and to establish a Dutchess County Civil War memorial. In the years after the war, counties and communities across the country began commissioning and building monuments to local veterans and war dead. After an initial effort to fundraise for a Dutchess County war memorial stalled in 1867, Poughkeepsie community leaders banded together to purchase land for a park and memorial. They chose a centrally located but unsightly sunken wasteland on a triangular lot at the intersection of Montgomery and Market Streets. Community members helped fill and grade the land, which had previously been a trash-filled eyesore. The committee’s choice to install a memorial fountain, rather than a more traditional war monument, and its decision to ultimately purchase a fountain lacking a strong military theme may reflect the committee’s primary interest in creating a beautiful public park as well as a memorial. While the park was designed and completed by a coalition of private individuals, the intention was that the land serve as a public park; in 1878, the land was donated to the City of Poughkeepsie.
The fountain is additionally significant in the area of art as a rare surviving example of a Janes, Beebe & Company No. 5 cast-iron fountain based on a design by French sculptor Michel Lienard exhibited at London’s Crystal Palace in 1851; the company first offered the fountain in 1855. Poughkeepsie’s fountain is thought to date from this time period and is the least altered of the four known castings of “Model No. 5” still extant. In January 1870, the monument committee hired local architect J.A. Wood to design a memorial fountain. Wood’s design was replaced at the last minute when a committee member discovered that a fountain cast before the Civil War was available at the Janes, Beebe & Company foundry in the Bronx. While J.A. Wood’s design featured a military theme, the No. 5 fountain is capped by the Goddess Demeter and features sculptural elements with cranes, marsh plants, and water creatures. Small eagles perching on cannons were added to the fountain to offer a military reference and 24 jets were imported from Paris. The fountain was officially unveiled on July 4, 1870; the following spring, deaccessioned cannons and triangular piles of cannonballs were placed around the fountain and a stanchion and chain fence was erected.
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Fountain, Poughkeepsie, NY. The Soldiers’ Memorial Fountain and Park is significant for its association with local efforts to develop city parks in Poughkeepsie and to establish a Dutchess County Civil War memorial. In the years after the war, counties and communities across the country began commissioning and building monuments to local veterans and war dead. After an initial effort to fundraise for a Dutchess County war memorial stalled in 1867, Poughkeepsie community leaders banded together to purchase land for a park and memorial. They chose a centrally located but unsightly sunken wasteland on a triangular lot at the intersection of Montgomery and Market Streets. Community members helped fill and grade the land, which had previously been a trash-filled eyesore. The committee’s choice to install a memorial fountain, rather than a more traditional war monument, and its decision to ultimately purchase a fountain lacking a strong military theme may reflect the committee’s primary interest in creating a beautiful public park as well as a memorial. While the park was designed and completed by a coalition of private individuals, the intention was that the land serve as a public park; in 1878, the land was donated to the City of Poughkeepsie.
The fountain is additionally significant in the area of art as a rare surviving example of a Janes, Beebe & Company No. 5 cast-iron fountain based on a design by French sculptor Michel Lienard exhibited at London’s Crystal Palace in 1851; the company first offered the fountain in 1855. Poughkeepsie’s fountain is thought to date from this time period and is the least altered of the four known castings of “Model No. 5” still extant. In January 1870, the monument committee hired local architect J.A. Wood to design a memorial fountain. Wood’s design was replaced at the last minute when a committee member discovered that a fountain cast before the Civil War was available at the Janes, Beebe & Company foundry in the Bronx. While J.A. Wood’s design featured a military theme, the No. 5 fountain is capped by the Goddess Demeter and features sculptural elements with cranes, marsh plants, and water creatures. Small eagles perching on cannons were added to the fountain to offer a military reference and 24 jets were imported from Paris. The fountain was officially unveiled on July 4, 1870; the following spring, deaccessioned cannons and triangular piles of cannonballs were placed around the fountain and a stanchion and chain fence was erected.
51354.
Farm scene near Poughkeepsie.
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Steamboat C. Vibbard, Landing at Poughkeepsie, NY.
51356.
Observatory, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.
51357.
Prospect Hill, Poughkeepsie, NY.
51358.
View in Main St., Poughkeepsie, NY.
51359.
Heath & Holdridge, 336 Main St., Poughkeepsie, NY.
51360.
Market St., Po’keepsie, NY.
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View of Poughkeepsie across the Hudson River.
51362.
Untitled street view.
51363.
College Hill, Poughkeepsie, NY.
51364.
Eastman Deer Park, Poughkeepsie, NY.
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Poughkeepsie on the Hudson, from College Hill.
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Group around unidentified house, Poughkeepsie, NY.