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At Briarcliff Lodge, February 2000.
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I
welcome any and all email. I also maintain a mailing list for notice of
website updates, book-signings and lecture announcements. I will
automatically add your email address to the list. Please
notify me me in your email if you wish not to be on this list. I do not
share email addresses.
I do not provide directions
to the ruins,
and I will not give you the phone numbers for the owners of these ruins.
However, if you work for a professional design firm or production studio
and wish to hire my services to locate desired buildings, please contact
me with your idea, company website, and price plan. My knowledge of
buildings and sites in the Hudson Valley and surrounding regions extends
far beyond the ruins depicted on these pages.
I will be happy to hear about any sites you wish to share with me, but please do not
email attachments or
photos
without checking in with me.
Let's discuss
first. Oversize attachments have caused problems before.
Lastly, please don't be surprised or offended if I don't respond the next day
or the next week. I don't spend much time on the website these days, but sooner
or later your email will receive a reply! Thanks in advance for your patience
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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 currently is employed at Philipsburg Manor in Sleepy
Hollow, NY, a property of Historic Hudson Valley where he is the Site
Manager, a position he previously held at the Union Church of Pocantico
Hills.
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.
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"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.
From the Brooks Brothers photo shoot.
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.
Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL, July 2007. Cubs Win!
Rickwood Field, baseball heaven. Birmingham, AL.
April 23, 2009, the day after the Wilco concert at Sloss Furnaces.
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.)
At the great ruins of Fountains Abbey,
Yorkshire, England. February 2010.
Bannerman's, post-collapse, March 2010.
Self-portrait in unbroken mirror in a haunted house in Sleepy Hollow, 2011.
You can tell it is haunted because the place is glowing with eerie green light.
Oswego, November 2011.
With Tom Rinaldi, at Glenwood, Yonkers, NY. June 2, 2001.