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Rob Yasinsac has been documenting historic and distinctive architecture in the Hudson Valley since 1994. A resident of Tarrytown, New York, Rob has focused his work on ruins and abandoned buildings. Many of the buildings he has photographed are no longer standing or are threatened by demolition. His photographs were recognized in the mid 1990s by local historical societies, and were later presented in exhibits at the State University of New York at Oswego, where he was a student from 1995 to 1999. Rob’s desire to record disappearing historic buildings in the changing landscape of the Hudson Valley has captured the attention of the New York Times, The Journal News (of Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam Counties), Preservation Magazine and other publications as far away as Japan. Along with Tom Rinaldi, Rob maintains the web site www.hudsonvalleyruins.org. He has also lectured widely on the subject. Rob was a History major and has worked for the National Trust for Historic Preservation at Lyndhurst, Tarrytown, New York and the H. Lee White Marine Museum in Oswego, New York. With the Bannerman Castle Trust, Rob also conducts tours at the Hudson Valley’s most renowned ruin. Rob is currently the Site Manager at the Union Church in Pocantico Hills, N.Y., and a Museum Associate at Philipsburg Manor in Sleepy Hollow, NY, both properties of Historic Hudson Valley. He serves as a Trustee on the Board of the Irvington Historical Society. Rob's first book, Briarcliff Lodge, was published in 2004 by Arcadia as part of its "Images of America" series. Hudson Valley Ruins, co-authored with Tom Rinaldi, was published in September 2006 by the University Press of New England. The Municipal Art Society hosted an exhibit of their photographs in conjunction with the book release.

"Rob occasionally enjoys partaking in a good round of demolition derby
at abandoned brickyards throughout the Hudson Valley."



On the Hickman Bridge Trail, Capitol Reef, Utah. March 2007.



At Philipsburg Manor, 1750.




Rocking the banyan.




At the Plumb-Bronson House, Hudson, NY. May 24, 2008.

At the 100-inch reflecting telescope, Mt. Wilson, CA, June 2006.




"The place weirds me out. It smells like animals. Where are we?
- The old zoo. - 
The ooolllldd zoooo! The oollldd zoo. The old--
Not the new zoo, but the old zoo."

Los Angeles, CA, July 2008.

In the penalty box, London, Ontario. September 12, 2005.




Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL, July 2007. Cubs Win!




Heritage Park, Albany. November 2008.




Shea Goodbye, September 27, 2008.




Pond hockey at Turtle Pond, the old swimming pool on the Gracemere estate, Tarrytown, NY. February 2007. 
(Scroll mouse over image for alternate take.)

With Tom Rinaldi, at Glenwood, Yonkers, NY. June 2, 2001.