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Hudson Valley Ruins Photo Exhibit Opens at NYS Museum

August 24, 2016 by Editorial Staff 1 Comment

NYTrapRockCorpThe New York State Museum has opened “Hudson Valley Ruins,” a photography and architecture exhibition.

On display through December 31, 2017, the exhibition features over 80 photographs by Robert Yasinsac and Thomas Rinaldi documenting forgotten historic sites and cultural treasures in the Hudson River Valley.

The exhibition is based on Yasinsac and Rinaldi’s 2006 book, Hudson Valley Ruins: Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape. In addition to great river estates, the book and exhibition profiles sites meaningful to everyday life in the Hudson Valley: churches, hotels, commercial and civic buildings, mills, and train stations. The exhibition explores many of these abandoned places and also revisits several sites that have changed in the past ten years since the book’s publication.

WyndclyffeWorking together since meeting in 1999, Yasinsac and Rinaldi have photographed more than 500 sites throughout the region. First photographing sites around their childhood homes, they gradually worked farther afield, eventually expanding their scope to cover the entire region between Yonkers and the Capital District. Driven by a sense of urgency to document sites of architectural or cultural significance that seemed poised to disappear, the pair also found beauty in the picturesque decay of these places.

The State Museum is a program of the New York State Education Department’s Office of Cultural Education. For information about programs and events, visit the Museum website or  call (518) 474-5877.

Photos: New York Trap Rock Co., Verplanck, Westchester County, April 9, 2005 by Thomas Rinaldi, and Wyndclyffe, Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, February 28, 2003 by Robert Yasinsac.

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Filed Under: History, New Exhibits Tagged With: Architecture, Documentary, Historic Preservation, Hudson River Valley, Photography

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  1. woof4woof says

    August 25, 2016 at 10:37 AM

    Authors may have looked at Halcyon Hall on the Bennett College campus, I don’t know . Build in 1893
    by the same stone masons from Fondi, Italy who built Mohonk Mountain House. It is also a State
    Landmark which doesn’t seem to carry much meaning for the locals. It is not a quaint set of ruins but
    a tragic eyesore at the entrance to the Village of Millbrook. Missing only the guard tower[s] to be
    a perfect stalag.

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