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Alan Strauber Jan 10, 2024

This was the exquisite Gothic Revival Newburgh Savings Bank building located in the City of Newburgh, NY. Designed by architect Frederick Clarke Withers in 1868 and tragically demolished in 1970. Only a few weeks later and a few blocks away, Newburgh's 1893 Palatine Hotel would also be demolished, among the other architectural gems demolished in the name of "urban renewal" or just grossly neglected in Newburgh.
photo (c) Tom Daley
#architecture #historicpreservation #photography

Alan Strauber Nov 26, 2023

photo (c) Alan Strauber
USS Nautilus - First nuclear powered submarine initially launched in 1954, christened with a bottle of champagne by then First Lady Mamie Eisenhower at the U.S. Naval Base, Groton, CT. It was decommissioned in 1980 and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1982. The vessel is now on exhibit at the Submarine Force Museum on the Thames River at Groton. #photography #architecture #military #design #boats #maritime

Alan Strauber Oct 27, 2023

The Flatiron, the storied office building in Manhattan, designed by Chicago architect Daniel Burnham and completed in 1902, will be converted into luxury housing, its owners announced on Thursday.

The proposal is aimed at starting a second life for the Flatiron — its sole office tenant, Macmillan Publishers, departed before the pandemic. In March, a little-known buyer won an auction for the building, only to disappear without paying. #architecture #photography #historicpreservation #NYC

Alan Strauber Oct 7, 2023

After reading about Pres Biden's recent issues with dogs in the White House, I remembered Pete. He was Theodore Roosevelt's possible pit-bull terrier who was put on a train & exiled west after biting numerous people, including a French diplomat. I came across this when it fell out of a Roosevelt family album while doing research at TR's home. The archivist was surprised to see it. I thought I might as well stop hoarding it and share it. I love this photo. #dogs #animals #photography

Alan Strauber Oct 7, 2023

Good Morning from Breezy Hill in the Hudson Valley of Upstate New York #photography #flowers #gardening #newyork #HudsonValley

Alan Strauber Aug 3, 2023

One of the baby red oak trees I planted over the past 8 weeks - doing well #trees #oaktrees #photography

Alan Strauber Jul 9, 2023

1925 Demolition of McKim, Mead and White's old Madison Square Garden when it was located at Fourth Ave and 26th Street, NYC.

photo by Wurts Brothers

Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. "Demolition of Madison Square Garden"
#architecture #photography #historicpreservation

Alan Strauber Jun 19, 2023

Hudson River State Hospital, Poughkeepsie, New York - Frederick Clarke Withers, Architect, grounds by Vaux & Olmsted. Opened as a psychiatric hospital in 1871. Closed and abandoned in 2012, now being developed as a residential and commercial multi-use site under the name "Hudson Heritage." Some of the remaining buildings are in the process of demolition while others are being altered and adapted for reuse. #architecture #HudsonValley #NewYork #photography

photo by Alan Strauber

Alan Strauber May 13, 2023

Hopeland (now demolished), Staastsburg, NY - as it appeared in a NY Times photo spread 1909 - core of house designed by Calvert Vaux, expansion by Robert Palmer Huntington, the estate's owner.
#architecture #hudsonvalley #historicpreservation #newyorkstate #architecture #photography
photo courtesy Edward Ned Ledbetter Collection

Alan Strauber May 9, 2023

Astor Dairy Barns - Rhinebeck, New York - designed by underappreciated 1920s era architect Harrie T. Lindeberg for Vincent Astor around 1915. Restored and now owned by photographer Annie Leibovitz along with the surrounding 200 + acres, all once part of the Astors' Ferncliff estate. Lindeberg also designed the renovation and remodel of Rhinebeck's Beekman Arms circa 1909. #architecture #hudsonvalley #rhinebeck #newyorkstate #historicpreservation

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