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Pollepel Island. Coordinates: 41°27′19″N 73°59′20″W. The island and castle viewed from atop Breakneck Ridge. Pollepel Island / pɒlɪˈpɛl / is a 6.5-acre (26,000 m 2) uninhabited island in the Hudson River in New York, United States. The principal feature on the island is Bannerman's Castle, an abandoned military surplus warehouse.
Lyndhurst (mansion) Lyndhurst, also known as the Jay Gould estate, is a Gothic Revival country house that sits in its own 67-acre (27 ha) park beside the Hudson River in Tarrytown, New York, about a half mile south of the Tappan Zee Bridge on US 9. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966.
This is a list of New York (state) historic sites. It includes 40 state-designated historic sites and parks managed by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . [1] [2] Twenty-two sites also are National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) of the United States and are described further in List of National Historic ...
Olana State Historic Site is a historic house museum and landscape in Greenport, New York, near the city of Hudson. The estate was home to Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), one of the major figures in the Hudson River School of landscape painting. The centerpiece of Olana is an eclectic villa which overlooks parkland and a working farm ...
The Hudson River Historic District, also known as Hudson River Heritage Historic District, is the largest Federally designated district on the mainland of the contiguous United States. [3] It covers an area of 22,205 acres (34.6 square miles, 89 km 2) extending inland roughly a mile (1.6 km) from the east bank of the Hudson River between ...
Here are the nine most picturesque small towns in the New York include the five located in the Hudson Valley, as determined by the World Atlas. Sleepy Hollow, NY Sunset at the Sleepy Hollow ...
Schodack Island, in Schodack, New York. Shad Island, [4] a former island in Coeymans, New York. Stomy Island, within the village and town of Green Island, Hudson River on both sides, north of Center Island [5] Van Rensselaer Island, a former island [3] in Rensselaer, New York. Van Schaick Island, within the city of Cohoes, New York, Hudson ...
Brick Church Rd. and Buck Rd. 42°45′04″N 73°34′29″W. / 42.751192°N 73.574667°W / 42.751192; -73.574667 ( District #6 Schoolhouse) Brunswick. One-room schoolhouse built c. 1830 and closed in 1952. Believed to be one of the oldest remaining schoolhouses in Rensselaer County.