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Hudson Valley Ruins: Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape by Thomas E. Rinaldi and Robert J. Yasinsac. Details & Lecture Dates

Briarcliff Lodge by Rob Yasinsac. Reprinted April 2008! Book Information

HUDSON VALLEY RUINS

Greetings: I'm Rob Yasinsac and welcome to my half of the Hudson Valley Ruins website. These photographs show the area's abandoned and endangered architecture from the mid-1990s to the present day. Some ruins have been destroyed already, many are still in decay, and a few have been or will be preserved. After viewing each site, the link at the bottom of the site pages for "Yaz’ Hudson Valley Ruins and Abandoned Buildings" will return you to this main page.

EAST SHORE

Westchester County
Yonkers - The New York Central's Yonkers Power Station; Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research; Alder Manor gardens; Vineyard Avenue Fire Station; and general images around the city.
YONKERS POWER STATION NAMED TO PRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE SEVEN TO SAVE LIST. DETAILS HERE.

Hastings-on-Hudson - The Anaconda Wire and Cable factory and the steamboat Lancaster.

Saw Mill River Parkway - Parkway Service Stations; Dugan's Distributorship; and the Woodlands Lake restaurant. 

Scarsdale - The European Health Spa.

Hartsdale - The Rigel estate.

Dobbs Ferry - St. Cabrini Novitiate ruin.

Irvington - The Halsey Teahouse; the Hermit’s Grave, Richmond Hill estate ruins.

Tarrytown and vicinity - The Tarrytown Hospital; New Rochelle Water Company;  Hudson River Yards Coal and Lumber building; the "Old House" from Dark Shadows;" the Gracemere estate; and a few other sites.

Elmsford - The Starlite Coach Diner.

Briarcliff Manor / Scarborough - Briarcliff Lodge (former campus of The King's College); the Sparta Cemetery.

Pleasantville - The C. V. Pierce Company.

Ossining - A trio of vacant downtown banks.

Ossining - The underground chambers of the Potter Estate (Mystic Pointe Condominiums).

Peekskill - A mélange of ruins.

Milestones - Small stone markers along the old post roads of Westchester County.

Putnam County
Cold Spring - Cornish Estate; the Lente House; and the West Point Foundry.

Brewster - Croton Magnetic Mine ruins.

Route 6 Ruins - A tour of ruins and architecture, primarily around Mahopac and Brewster.

Dutchess County
Bannerman's Island Arsenal - "Bannerman's Castle" - Including historic photos and Illumination photos (1998 & 2007).

Beacon - Matteawan State Hospital.

Beacon - Brockway Brick Yard.

Millbrook - The Bennett School for Girls (Halcyon Hall).

Hyde Park - Shagabak mansion.

Rhinebeck - Wyndclyffe mansion.

Columbia County
Clermont - Arryl House ("New Clermont").

Stockport - Empire Brick Yard.

Stuyvesant - An abandoned house at Poolsburg.

Rensselaer County
Coming soon . . .

WEST SHORE

Rockland County
Orangeburg - Nike Missile Radar site.

Nyack - Tappan Zee Playhouse.

Nyack - Abandoned boats.

Haverstraw - Henry M. Peck House.

Thiells - Letchworth Village.

Stony Point - Annie's Snack Shack.

Orange County
New Windsor - Lafayette Paper Company.

Middlehope - Middlehope Drive-In Theater.

Chester - The Chester Hide and Skin abattoir.

Middletown - Ontario and Western Railway Station; and  farming community ruins in Highland Lakes State Park.

Ulster County
Marlboro - New York Trap Rock quarry ruins.

Kingston - Hudson Cement Company & Shultz Brick Yard.
 
Woodstock - Overlook Mountain House.

Saugerties - The Sheffield Paper Company mills.

Malden - Staples brickyard.

Greene County
Pine Orchard - Catskill Mountain House. 

Albany County
Albany - The Wellington Hotel and its neighbors.

THE NORTHWAY

General Electric - Hudson Falls, Washington County. Site of infamous PCB spill.

MOHAWK RIVER VALLEY

Sanford Mills - Amsterdam, Montgomery County.

NEW YORK CITY

Van Cortlandt Park - The Bronx. Grand Central Terminal test pillars, Putnam Division station ruins, and Vault Hill. 

LOCATION WITHHELD

Abandoned Quarry - A flooded quarry along the Hudson, photographed at night.

East Coast Mental Hospital - A joint documentation with Dark Passage.

Paper Printing Plant - Located in a former textile mill.

Steel Mill - One of the region's giant abandoned factories.

Suburban Countryside Community - An abandoned property consisting of a colonial farm, 20th-century estate, and a model housing development.

Victorian Gables - Abandoned mansion.

Other THEMES / Localities

HVArchitecture - Hudson Valley Architecture, the non-ruins portion of this website. A work-in-progress.

Black and White Gallery 1 - Primarily images of stone ruins in Westchester and Putnam Counties.

Black and White Gallery 2 - A series of interiors, primarily  in Rockland and Orange Counties.

Night Photography - Link to specific pages within this site that contain night photography.

Oswego Ruins - Selections from my years in this central New York city.

Springfield, Vermont - Tribute to a childhood vacation spot (and great old mill town).

Southwest 2007 - A road trip through Utah, Arizona, and California.

Yaz Country - My non-ruins photography: Travel, Concerts, Sports, Animals, Night. (Off-site link)