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Panel 15: Hyde Park Scenes, 1870
Location : Hyde Park, NY
Description : Panel 15
1870- William Meier (head of Hyde Park's caviar industry) pulls up an oversized sturgeon helped by Abe Atkins (drowned later when the Mary Powell capsized his boat). Fish are being disemboweled on the beach and caviar made in the shed. The Norwich (1823) docks on her way to New York (the layout of this dock comes from a survey made in 1845 by George Van Vliet) - On the hill the houses are from left to right: Langdon house (originally built by Samuel Bard about 1800. Torn down by Frederick Vanderbilt 1895) and water wheel - Jacobus Stoutenburgh's second stone house (before 1768) - The first hotel - the first store - Church of the Stoutenburgh Religious Society (1789) flanked by the colored and white schools. Later buildings: The Hotel (burned 1879) - Horning House - Fire House Tower (1924) - Town Hall (1891) - James Roosevelt Memorial Library (1926) - Methodist Church (1834) - Former baptist Church (1846) - St. James Rectory - (after 1836) - Regina Coeli Church (1863) - Stone House (before 1780) - Crumwold Hall (1889 architect Richard Morris Hunt) - Stone House (before 1776) - Gerald Morgan house (about 1812 remodelled by McKim, Mead & White 1911) - Franklin Delano Roosevelt Library (1940) - Mrs. James Roosevelt (1826 added to between 1845-67, remodelled by Francis L. V. Hoppin) - Mrs. J. R. Roosevelt (1804). Listed Under:
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