Hudson Valley & Hudson River

Books about the Hudson Valley and the Hudson River

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	Landscape Gardens on the Hudson, A History Landscape Gardens on the Hudson, A History The Romantic Age, the Great Estates and the Birth of American Landscape Architecture by Robert M. Toole foreword by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers Paper, 8 1/2 x 11, 192 pages, 142 illustrations, many in color Isbn: 9781883789688, $24.95 A New Look at the Golden Age of Grand Designs and Great Estates The Designed Historic Landscapes of the Hudson River Valley Hyde Park (Vanderbilt) * Sunnyside * Olana * Clermont * Lyndhurst * Montgomery Place * Locust Grove * Wilderstein * Springside * Idlewild * Blithewood * Millbrook * Kenwood * The Point * Philipse...	$24.95 Add:
	RHINECLIFF RHINECLIFF The Tangled Tale of Rhinebeck’s Waterfront:A Hudson River History By Cynthia Owen Philip author of Robert Fulton: A Biography and the prize-winning Wilderstein and the Suckleys: A Hudson River Legacy This richly illustrated book is a gem. John Winthrop Aldrich, New York State Deputy Commissioner for Historic Preservation In Rhinecliff , Cynthia Owen Philip paints a vivid portrait, filled with fascinating detail and extraordinary characters, of a proud, independent community with a sense of place like no other. Overshadowed by its upstreet rival — the politically more...	$24.95 Add:
	Kingston: The IBM Years KINGSTON : THE IBM YEARS by the Friends of Historic Kingston trade paperback, 8 12″ x 11″ 160 pages, 140 color and vintage B&W illustrations $25.95, isbn 9781883789763 Essays by Novelist Gail Godwin Professor Roger Panetta Professor Harvey K. Flad Professor William B. Rhoads Journalist Hugh Reynolds Former IBMer Lowell Thing Timeline by former IBMer George G. Washington Preface by Project Director Ward L.E. Mintz Drawings by architect Frances Halsband Photographs by Stephen Benson Recipient of a 2015 Award for Excellence from Greater Hudson Heritage Network! What...	$25.95 Add:
	Staatsburgh: Gilded Splendor on the Hudson Staatsburgh: Gilded Splendor on the Hudson by Pamela Malcolm and Andrea Monteleone, foreword by John Winthrop Aldrich, photography by Pieter Estersohn and Roger Tully , published by Friends of Mills at Staatsburgh 8 1/2ʺ x 11ʺ, trade paperback, 96 pages, 100+ full-color photographs ISBN: 978-1-883789-96-1, $28.95 Gilded Age architecture and the leisure pursuits of New York City’s turn-of-the-20th-century social elite come to life in STAATSBURGH: Gilded Splendor on the Hudson, a new book about Staatsburgh State Historic Site—also known as Mills Mansion—a Beaux-Arts cultural gem located...	$28.95 Add:
	Hudson's Merchants & Whalers: The Rise and Fall of a River Port Hudson’s Merchants and Whalers The Rise and Fall of a River Port 1783-1850 by Margaret B. Schram with a new foreword by Carole Osterink ISBN 9781883789398, $29.95, 226 pp, 8 ½ x 11, 200 Illus. The remarkable story of the seaport far from the sea—the City of Hudson, 120 miles from the Atlantic Ocean, founded in 1783 by seafaring Quaker emigrants from Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, and New Bedford who transformed a sleepy boat landing “at the head of navigation on the Hudson River” into a booming city and a bustling port that rivaled the port of New York City. Ships sailed from Hudson...	$29.95 Add:
	Mohonk and the Smileys MOHONK AND THE SMILEYS A National Historic Landmark and the Family That Created It By Larry E. Burgess Foreword by Bert Smiley 8 ¼″ x 9 3/8″, 240 full-color pages, over 200 illustrations Paper, ISBN 9781883789916, $29.95 Mohonk and the Smileys : A National Historic Landmark and the Family That Created It chronicles the history and enduring legacy of a unique resort whose aim has always been to create and sustain a peaceful, contemplative environment for the betterment of human relations and for improved relations between people and the world around...	$29.95 Add:
	Elverhoj: The Arts and Crafts Colony at Milton-on-Hudson Elverhoj The Arts and Crafts Colony at Milton-on-Hudson by William B. Rhoads and Leslie Melvin 232 full-color pages, 8″ x 10″ trade paperback 168 illustrations: 86 B&W, 82 color ISBN: 9798985692105, Price: $35.00 Elverhoj (Danish for “hill of the fairies,” pronounced “El-ver-hoy”) was an Arts and Crafts colony established on the picturesque west shore of the Hudson River in 1912 by Danish American artists and craftsmen led by Anders Anderson. Little known today, the colony achieved a national reputation before World War I and earned a gold medal at the 1915 Panama-Pacific...	$35.00 Add:
	From the Hudson to the Taconics: Field Guide to Columbia County From the Hudson to the Taconics An Ecological and Cultural Field Guide to the Habitats of Columbia County by Anna Duhon, Gretchen Stevens, Claudia Knab-Vispo & Conrad Vispo for the HAWTHORNE VALLEY FARMSCAPE ECOLOGY PROGRAM AND HUDSONIA LTD. Trade paperback, 7 ½″ x 10″, 432 pages, more than 750 full-color photographs, maps graphs, tables and charts ISBN 9798985692143, $35.00 Featuring 36 discreet natural habitats in the Hudson Valley’s Columbia County, and beautifully illustrated with over 750 full-color photographs, maps, graphs, tables, and charts, this easy-to-use Field Guide offers...	$35.00 Add:
	In Defiance: Runaways from Slavery SECOND EDITION In Defiance: Runaways from Slavery in New York’s Hudson River Valley 1735–1831 Second Edition, with more than 250 newly discovered runaway notices by Susan Stessin-Cohn and Ashley Hurlburt-Biagini, foreword by A.J. Williams-Myers Trade paperback, 8″ x 10″, 480 pages, 830 transcriptions of archival newspaper notices, 602 with accompanying reproduction of the original notice, plus 9 tables analyzing the data, glossary, indexes of names, locations, and subjects, illustrations and maps. ISBN: 9798985692150, $35.00. NEW EDITION OF A LANDMARK BOOK ON SLAVERY IN NEW YORK In recent years,...	$35.00 Add:
	Ledge Lake Leaf Labyrinth: an uncommon portrait of Shawangunks Ledge Lake Leaf Labyrinth an uncommon portrait of the Shawangunk Mountains Photographs by Nora Scarlett Foreword by Robert K. Anderberg, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Open Space Institute Hardcover, 9″ x 9″, 168 pages, 188 full-color photographs ISBN 9781883789954, $35.00 Photographer Nora Scarlett hiked, climbed, scrambled and bushwhacked throughout the Shawangunk Mountains for over ten years to create this visual story of a region she so loves—her own big backyard—a diverse area of glaciated slabs dotted with gnarled pitch pines, dark hemlock groves, striking cliff...	$35.00 Add: