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Main Street, Poughkeepsie, 1906

Via the “always interesting” Shorpy.

Farmhouse vignette, Copake, 1933

Another by Walker Evans from the Met’s collection.

Turtle House, Greenport, 1934

Robert Sturgis photo from the Library of Congress.

Capitol staircase, Albany, 1905

Via the “always interesting” Shorpy. (It still looks pretty much exactly like this.)

Lasher House, Clermont, 1940

Stanley Mixon photo, off of 9G between Germantown and Clermont, via the Library of Congress.

Manor House, Claverack, 1934

Now occupied by Jim Ivory (of Merchant/Ivory), via the Library of Congress.

Crew team, Poughkeepsie, 1913

Via the “always interesting” Shorpy.

Bakery, Castleton, 1914

The Goergen family’s Schneid Bakery, via the “always interesting” Shorpy.

Incline railway, Fishkill, 1905

The Mount Beacon Incline Railway or “funicular” in Dutchess County, with the Hudson River in the background, printed from a glass negative, via the “always interesting” Shorpy.

Cupola, Hudson, 1969

The General Worth hotel (where this was taken) was demolished shortly after Jack Boucher took this photo, to make way for a supposed Dairy Queen which never materialized... Via the Library of Congress.

Meadow, Catskills, 1943

In Richmondville, to be exact, a Kodachrome by John Collier; via the “always interesting” Shorpy.

Laborers, Hudson, 1934

 

The Cyrus Curtiss House is on the upper right of this Walker Evans photo. The building across Warren at the top center was a boarding house and bar, demolished approximately 35 years later to make way for a supermarket promised by Bill Loewenstein (which never arrived). It’s now occupied by COARC... Found via the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Evans archive.