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Welzello? School, Poughkeepsie, NY.
Pach, G.W.-HV
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Untitled, probably Main Street, Poughkeepsie, NY.
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Jewett? School, Poughkeepsie. Several of the boys hold baseball bats.
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Venus de Medici, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY.
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Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.
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The Lake at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY.
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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.
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No. 503. View at Newburgh.
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Poughkeepsie Savings Bank.
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Vassar College Grounds.
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Harvey Eastman’s Mansion, in Eastman Park, a classic, timeless beauty of Second Empire French Mansard historic architecture in Poughkeepsie. The view is looking south from Little Market Street with Montgomery Street ahead.
Harvey G. Eastman, Mayor of Poughkeepsie from 1871 to 1875, arrived in Poughkeepsie 1859. Eastman first built a carriage house on Montgomery Street that was later enlarged to become his family’s mansion. This grand house was an outstanding example of the popular style originally promoted in 17th-century France by architect François Mansart. Though its proportions were immense, the decorative elements and graceful lines of the Mansard roof, enhanced with a touch of refinement, made it a focal point in the neighborhood.
After Harvey Eastman’s untimely death in 1878 his family continued to reside in Eastman Mansion. Mrs. Eastman remarried in 1885 and remained there with her husband Professor C. Gaines, who became president of Eastman College, until her death in 1907.
Harvey Eastman founded Eastman Business College and built Eastman Terrace in current Eastman Park as well as pioneering the Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge. His imposing mansion once graced the northern end of Eastman Park on Montgomery Street.
Miss Emma Osborne operated a school in the mansion for years. In 1917 the Poughkeepsie Department of Public Works moved from City Hall to the mansion. Offices were relocated there and equipment was stored in the mansion. The city used the once finely appointed rooms as board rooms for meetings. The mansion never regained its original grace and was altered.
In December, 1955 a fire broke out in the vicinity of the garage and the mansion was seriously damaged. Discussions ensued about moving the department elsewhere as the mansion was condemned.
By 1966 Eastman Park was cast as the favored site for the future YMCA. The agency purchased 2.7 acres of land on the northern end of Eastman Park. Included in the purchase was the former mansion which the city would continue to use under agreement with the YMCA until the new building is completed”.
The Eastman family mansion was demolished to make way for the new YMCA building.