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Street that built a city : McEntee's chestnut street, Kingston, and the rise of New York
- Title
- Street that built a city : McEntee's chestnut street, Kingston, and the rise of New York / Lowell Thing
- Author
- Thing, Lowell.
- Publication
- Delmar, NY : Black Dome Press, 2015.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 17-1215 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
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- Description
- x, 332 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm
- Summary
- "The city is New York, and the street that built it or much of it is on a quiet hilltop overlooking the Hudson River a hundred miles north of New York s harbor. Chestnut Street's first resident was an engineer who helped build the Delaware and Hudson Canal, which brought millions of tons of coal from Pennsylvania to the port at Rondout to be hauled down the Hudson River on barges pulled by steamboats belonging to another Chestnut Street resident to fuel a rapidly growing New York City. Seven owners of brickyards lived on the street, and their hundreds of millions of bricks rose skyward in New York while bluestone slabs shipped from Rondout paved the city's sidewalks. The owner of the steamboat company that pushed or pulled the coal, bricks, cement and bluestone built the grandest house on the street and one of the largest mansions in the Hudson Valley. His neighbor was a famous painter whose close circle included the greatest American architect of his time and the greatest actor of his time, as well as many of the foremost artists of the Hudson River School. The street evolved over time from its emergence as a former wood lot or pasture into a graded street with horses and wagons, and later automobiles, into the 20th century and finally to the present. Today the street that built a city is part of the Chestnut Street Historic District in Kingston, New York. Its greatest mansion is gone, but others remain, and the street's 19th-century architectural splendor is largely intact." -- Publisher's description
- Subjects
- Call Number
- JFF 17-1215
- ISBN
- 188378980X
- 9781883789800
- OCLC
- 926062319
- Author
- Thing, Lowell.
- Title
- Street that built a city : McEntee's chestnut street, Kingston, and the rise of New York / Lowell Thing
- Publisher
- Delmar, NY : Black Dome Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFF 17-1215