The Museum in the Streets®: Hastings-on-Hudson, New York Historical Markers

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The Museum in the Streets®: Hastings-on-Hudson, New York Historical Markers

By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), March 6, 2022

A Church in a Changing Village / Una Iglesia en un Pueblo que Cambia Marker

1 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 3 — A Church in a Changing Village / Una Iglesia en un Pueblo que Cambia — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

A Church in a Changing Village A priest and his parishioners greet a patriotic parade in the 1920s. The church was originally built in 1900 for a Baptist congregation and its rededication in 1914 as St. Stanislaus Kostka reflected . . . — — Map (db m193457) HM

2 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 4 — A Lavis Private Garden / Un Suntuoso Jardin Privado — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

A Lavish Private Garden The Crystie Estate and its garden, photographed in 1924, was invaded in 1903 (inset) by a trolley car from Yonkers that failed to make the sharp turn from Broadway onto Main Street. The now-destroyed . . . — — Map (db m193458) HM

3 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 26 — A Movie Theater and a Diner / Un Cinema y Un Restaurante — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

A Movie Theater and a Diner The Hastings Theater (photographed in 1929) opened in December 1920 with a showing of The Mask of Zorro starring Douglas Fairbanks. It was not named for the village, but after its owner and . . . — — Map (db m193518) HM

4 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 20 — A Saloon and a Mansion / Un Bar y Una Mansion — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

A Saloon and a Mansion Fegan's saloon, around 1910, on the east side of Maple Avenue (the stone house to its right still stands) was one of dozens of bars that lined the way to the waterfront. Inset: On the west side of the . . . — — Map (db m193512) HM

5 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 33 — Billie and Flo — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

In the 1920s, legendary showman Florenz Ziegfeld lived here at Burkeley Crest with his wife actress Billie Burke, best remembered as the good witch Glinda in The Wizard of Oz. The estate included a private zoo (with buffalo, . . . — — Map (db m193530) HM

6 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 1 — Boulanger Plaza — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

Grace Episcopal Church begins its journey up Main Street from here to its present location at the Five Corners in 1931. The Great Depression was at its height, and according to legend, the street was blocked for several days when the . . . — — Map (db m193524) HM

7 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 28 — Carl Brandt, Portrait Painter / Carl Brandt, Pintor de Retratos — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

The German-born painter Carl Brandt (1831-1905) came to Hastings in the 1860s and settled in this Greek revival house on the western edge of the Chrystie estate. The man in the rocking char of this circa 1900 photograph may be . . . — — Map (db m193522) HM

8 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 24 — Community Gardens in Zinsser Park / Los Jardines Comunitarios en el Parque Zinsser — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

Community Gardens in Zinsser Park Across Broadway are the community vegetable gardens begun as Victory Gardens during World War I. The park was the estate of Frederick Zinsser, village mayor and owner of the local factory that . . . — — Map (db m193436) HM

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9 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 14 — Draper Park — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

Originally a private preserve then over seen by a nature conservancy and now a village park, this space (including the Observatory, headquarters of the Historical Society) came from the original John William Draper estate, and has . . . — — Map (db m193482) HM

10 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 11 — Draper Terrace / Draper Terrace (el callejón Draper) — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

Draper Terrace One single family and two double-family frame houses in the Hudson Valley cottage style date from the early 1840s to the late 1850s. The double houses were built by the scientist and historian John William Draper . . . — — Map (db m193472) HM

11 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 12 — Forge Cottage / La Fragua — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

Forge Cottage This gardener's cottage (seen here in the 1870s before its 1905 renovation) contains remnants of what's been called the Neutral Forge, a Revolutionary War blacksmith's shop located—as was all of Hastings—in the . . . — — Map (db m193473) HM

12 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 10 — Hastings' First High Rise / El Primer Edificio de Pisos Multiples en Hastings — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

Hastings' First High Rise When the village's first apartment building, La Barranca ("The Ravine," in Spanish), opened in 1929 it was greeted with outrage because of its size and height, a staggering six stories. It was, by far, . . . — — Map (db m193469) HM

13 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — Map — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

Welcome to Hastings Hastings did not officially become a village until 1879. Compared to its Westchester neighbors that was very late. Even the local volunteer fire company is older. But with a population of 1,228, the community . . . — — Map (db m193432) HM

14 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — Map — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

15 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — Map — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

16 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — Map — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

17 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 13 — Henry Draper and His Observatories / Henry Draper y Sus Observatiorios — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

Henry Draper and His Observatories From 1860, when he built his first observatory on his father's estate, until his death in 1882, Henry Draper photographed the heavens from this Hastings hilltop. In this 1880s image, the . . . — — Map (db m193479) HM

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18 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 19 — Industrial Hastings / El Hastings Industrial — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

Industrial Hastings The waterfront was the economic and industrial heart of the village from the 1830s to the 1970s. The English watercolorist George Harvey—who owned a marble quarry in Hastings and assisted Washington Irving . . . — — Map (db m193509) HM

19 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 34 — Longue Vue — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

In the 1910s and '20s this fashionable restaurant with a spectacular view was all many Manhattanites knew of Hastings. Located on this hilltop with its own gold course, Longue Vue's clientele included socialites, gangsters, and stars . . . — — Map (db m193535) HM

20 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 18 — Municipal Building / El Edificio Municipal — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

Municipal Building Built on the site of the home of Joseph Treanor (inset), owner of the waterfront blue-stone yard, and designed by Shreve and Lamb, architects of the Empire State Building, the Village Hall was completed . . . — — Map (db m193506) HM

21 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 5 — Old Broadway / La Antigua Broadway — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

Old Broadway An original section of narrow old Broadway, the Albany Post Road, lies opposite. The large house on its north end was once the Baker family's funeral home. A 1933 photograph shows it and Baker Lane. Inset: The . . . — — Map (db m193459) HM

22 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 9 — Olinda — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

The Hopkes, owners of the sugar refinery on the Hastings waterfront that burned to the ground in 1875, named their stone mansion on Hopke Avenue Olinda ("beautiful" in Portuguese) after the city in Brazil from which their raw sugar . . . — — Map (db m193467) HM

23 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 27 — Protection Engine Company No. 1 / La Primera Estacion de Bomberos — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

Protection Engine Company No. 1 In 1876, three years before Hastings officially became a village and five weeks after fires destroyed its waterfront, 37 men founded one of the first volunteer fire companies in the region. . . . — — Map (db m193520) HM

24 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 8 — School Days / Los Días de Clase — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

School Days Farragut School, the oldest section of Hastings' present middle school-high school complex, was built in 1904 for all grades. It is seen here on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918, the end of World War I. Among the many . . . — — Map (db m193465) HM

25 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 2 — School, Blacksmith's Shop and Firehouse / La Escuela, La Herreria y La Estacion de Bomberos — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

School, Blacksmith's Shop and Firehouse Opposite is the Fraser Free School built in 1863 for the elementary grades (high school students journeyed to Yonkers) and later used as a library, civic center and, now a volunteer fire . . . — — Map (db m193456) HM

26 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 30 — Ships and Shad / Barcos & Sabalos — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

Ships and Shad The Buccaneer, a five-masted barkentine painted to look like a pirate ship (photographed minus some masts in 1936 at Hastings' Tower Ridge Yacht Club), was a feature of the riverfront for decades. With its . . . — — Map (db m193526) HM

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27 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 23 — Squirrel Alley and River Place / El Callejon Squirrel y Riverview Place — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets© —

Squirrel Alley and Riverview Place The squirrel at the entrance of the path to Riverview Place is the work of sculptor Raffaele Menconi (1877-1942), who also made the aluminum eagle for the Municipal Building and whose . . . — — Map (db m193515) HM

28 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 25 — St. Matthew's, Old and New / San Mateo Nuevo y Antiguo — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

The "new" St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Church on the east side of Warburton Avenue was built in 1917 to replace an older chapel (interior and exterior pictured) built in 1870 on the current site of the Post Office. Warburton, . . . — — Map (db m193516) HM

29 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 21 — The Kattenhorn Houses / Las Casa Kattenhorn — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

The Kattenhorn Houses Four similar "cottages" were built in the 1850s as homes for executives of Kattenhorn and Hopke's Hudson River Steam Sugar Refinery Several sugar mills opened along the river after the arrival of the . . . — — Map (db m193513) HM

30 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 17 — The Local Soda Fountain / La Fuente de Soda Local — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

The Local Soda Fountain Todd's Drug Store caught the spirit of the 1909 Hudson-Fulton Celebration, when cities and towns all along the river observed the achievements of Henry Hudson and Robert Fulton. Inset: Hastings' own . . . — — Map (db m193455) HM

31 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 15 — The Old Croton Aqueduct / El Antiguo Acueducto de Croton — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

The Old Croton Aqueduct The aqueduct, which in the 1840s first brought clean country water to Manhattan passes through Hastings. A 19th-century print shows an arch a few hundred yards south of here over which the aqueduct . . . — — Map (db m193483) HM

32 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 7 — The Oldest Church / La Iglesia Mas Antigua — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

The Oldest Church The red-brick Dutch Reformed Church—now simply the Reformed Church—was built in 1850 and is the oldest surviving non-domestic building in the village. Its design was based on sketches by A.J. Davis (inset), . . . — — Map (db m193463) HM

33 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 31 — The Ravine, Looking East / El Barranco, Mirando Hacia El Este — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

The Ravine, Looking East Power generated by a fast-moving stream rushing through this ravine into an inlet (now a parking lot) on the river brought Hastings its first factory, William Saunders' axle plant, in the early 1840s. . . . — — Map (db m193527) HM

34 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 32 — The Ravine, Looking West / El Barranco, Mirado Hacia El Oeste — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

The Ravine, Looking West The heart of the waterfront was photographed from the new Warburton Avenue Bridge soon after 1900. The railroad station is to the right, the National Conduit and Cable Company (predecessor of Anaconda) in . . . — — Map (db m193528) HM

35 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 22 — The Tower Ridge Neighborhood / El Vecindario de la Torre Ridge — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

The Tower Ridge Neighborhood In the 1870s, Dr. Edward Huyler, a patent medicine manufacturer, built his home on the ridge above the river and added a since-destroyed chiming clock tower with four faces (no two of which were . . . — — Map (db m193514) HM

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36 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 16 — The Way to Work / El Trayecto al Trabajo — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

The Way to Work A footbridge near the bottom of Washington Avenue once crossed over the train tracks. It was the way many workers, many of whom lived at the south end of the village, got to the waterfront factories. A 1914 . . . — — Map (db m193484) HM

37 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 29 — Warburton Avenue / Avenida Warburton — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

Warburton Avenue G.H. ("Gus") Wagner, who appears in his sleigh on sign #28, ran a newsstand and tobacco shop at 537 Warburton Avenue, on the west side of the street. He also sold gasoline and repaired bicycles and automobiles. . . . — — Map (db m193523) HM

38 ► New York, Westchester County, Hastings-on-Hudson — 6 — Watering the Horses / Dando de Beber Agua a Los Caballos — Hastings-on-Hudson, New York — The Museum in the Streets® —

Watering the Horses The stone horse-watering trough that still remains on the east side of Broadway was once a regular stopping place on the main road north from New York City. A sign for the Farragut Inn above the already outdated . . . — — Map (db m193461) HM

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