Postcards from Different Places
The twenty-story Whitehall Building, named for Peter Stuyvesant’s seventeenth-century house that had been located nearby, was constructed in 1902-04 and designed by the preeminent turn-of-the-century architect Henry J. Hardenbergh. This highly visible site at the southernmost tip of Manhattan, overlooking Battery Park…
The back of the first postcard.
Dr. Kelso’s Residence, College Hill, Callicoon, NY. The Kelso family is often mentioned in the Austin family letters and Great Aunt Aida’s 1881 Diary.
Madison Square showing Metropolitan and Flat Iron building, NY.
Old Cider Mill above Eldred, NY.