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Bruce, Wallace, 1844-1914

"The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention"


_Shawangunk Mountains_, on the west side, reach away in the distance
toward the Catskills.
_Marlborough_ and _Milton_, on west bank.
_Locust Grove._ Home of the late Prof. S. F. B. Morse on east bank, with
square central tower.
_The Lookout_, a wooded hill owned by Poughkeepsie Cemetery.
_Livingston Place_, now occupied by a rolling mill.
_Vassar Brothers Hospital_, brick building on the hillside.
_Poughkeepsie_, 74 miles from New York.
_Poughkeepsie Bridge_, 12,608 feet in length. Track 212 feet above
tide-water.
_Mrs. John F. Winslow's Residence_, seen through opening of trees on
east bank.
_Hudson River State Hospital._ Large red buildings on east bank, two
miles north of Poughkeepsie.
_Hyde Park_, on the east side.
_Residence of Frederick W. Vanderbilt_, with white marble Corinthian
columns.
_Manresa Institute_, large building above Crum Elbow, on west side.
_A. R. Frothingham._ Grecian portico with columns.
_John Burrough's_ brown stone cottage, north of Frothingham's.
_The Novitiate of the Redemption Fathers_, a large new building on
west bank at Esopus.


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