Annual ReportJ.B. Lyon Company, 1908 |
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... stone foundation and rustic stone columns , ncar Work O * , com- manding a fine view northward of the Hudson river . Cost of construction , $ 1,200 . Summer houses : Four summer houses or summer seats as fol- lows : ( 1 ) Circular open ...
... stone foundation and rustic stone columns , ncar Work O * , com- manding a fine view northward of the Hudson river . Cost of construction , $ 1,200 . Summer houses : Four summer houses or summer seats as fol- lows : ( 1 ) Circular open ...
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... stone wall at entrance to reservation ... 16. Calvin T. Allison , Stony Point , building four stone and frame summer houses ... 1. Martin Mulvhail , Stony Point , 40 days ' labor grading , sodding , etc .... $ 230 40 180 00 1.250 00 65 ...
... stone wall at entrance to reservation ... 16. Calvin T. Allison , Stony Point , building four stone and frame summer houses ... 1. Martin Mulvhail , Stony Point , 40 days ' labor grading , sodding , etc .... $ 230 40 180 00 1.250 00 65 ...
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... stone abutment at the south end of the Suspension bridge has been removed and a new one of reinforced concrete put in . A reinforced concrete dyke twenty - two feet high , commencing at the Entrance Cascade and extending eastward 200 ...
... stone abutment at the south end of the Suspension bridge has been removed and a new one of reinforced concrete put in . A reinforced concrete dyke twenty - two feet high , commencing at the Entrance Cascade and extending eastward 200 ...
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... stone , with an eastward frontage of fifty - six and one - half feet and a depth of forty - six and one - half feet . The walls are about two feet thick . The building is one - story high , with a high shed roof rising in the center to ...
... stone , with an eastward frontage of fifty - six and one - half feet and a depth of forty - six and one - half feet . The walls are about two feet thick . The building is one - story high , with a high shed roof rising in the center to ...
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... pressure on their accounting department statistics on this subject have not been compiled recently . Kingston contains . There are between forty and fifty stone AMERICAN SCENIC AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY . Senate House, Kingston.
... pressure on their accounting department statistics on this subject have not been compiled recently . Kingston contains . There are between forty and fifty stone AMERICAN SCENIC AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION SOCIETY . Senate House, Kingston.
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Page 155 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Page 65 - The lands of the State, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed.
Page 218 - State, and each and every of them who shall at any time hereafter be found in any part of this State, shall be and are hereby adjudged and declared guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as in cases of felony without benefit of clergy.
Page 155 - And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light. Hast thou chosen, O my people, on whose party thou shalt stand, Ere the Doom from its worn sandals shakes the dust against our land ? Though the cause of Evil prosper, yet 'tis Truth alone is strong...
Page 124 - But reason and religion teach, that we too are primary existences ; that it is for us to move in the orbit of our duty, around the Holy Center of perfection, the companions, not the satellites, of men...
Page 11 - Objects," which title was changed by chapter 302 of the laws of 1898 to " The Society for the Preservation of Scenic and Historic Places and Objects," and by chapter 385 of the laws of 1901 to " The American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society.
Page 262 - York at four in the afternoon: time, thirty hours; space run through, one hundred and fifty miles, equal to five miles an hour. Throughout my whole way, both going and returning, the wind was ahead. No advantage could be derived...
Page 146 - I told him specially that we should contest the right of Russia to any territorial establishment on this continent, and that we should assume distinctly the principle that the American continents are no longer subjects for any new European colonial establishments.
Page 262 - AMERICAN CITIZEN." SIR, — I arrived this afternoon at four o'clock, in the steamboat from Albany. As the success of my experiment gives me great hopes that such boats may be rendered of great importance to my country, to prevent erroneous opinions and give some satisfaction to...
Page 212 - We, the subscribers, freeholders and inhabitants of the county of Westchester, having assembled at the White Plains, in consequence of certain advertisements, do now declare that we met here to express our honest abhorrence of all unlawful congresses and committees, and that we are determined, at the hazard of our lives and properties, to support the King and Constitution, and that we acknowledge no representatives but the General Assembly, to whose wisdom and integrity we submit the guardianship...