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Friends of Hudson

H I S T O R I C
Photos, paintings & postcards
of Hudson: the City, River and Valley


All images in this collection

Note: These are not arranged in any special order. For an index by location, please click HERE.

If you have information about any of these images, including locations, dates, or historical notes, please click HERE to email us so that we can update this page! Other historic images of Hudson, Columbia County and the region are also welcome.

 

The world-famous Catskill Mountain House, burned down by the NYS DEC (c. 1915-1920)

 

Another view of the Catskill Mountain House (date unknown)

 

Kinderhook Street in Chatham (c. 1930s)

 

Fawn's Leap in Palenville (date unknown)

 

View of Blackhead Mountain from Cairo (1940s-50s)

 

The Kaaterskill Creek (c. 1910)

 

Steel engraving by W. H. Bartlett of "South Eastern View of Hudson City N.Y. from Academy Hill, or Prospect Hill" (1837)

 

Engraved view of City of Hudson, including the River, Athens and the Catskills (date unknown)

 

Fishermen in Athens, looking toward the Hudson waterfront (date unknown)

 

View of Hudson's South Bay, Mount Merino and the Catskills (date unknown)

 

Albany Avenue in Stuyvesant Falls, with the bridge over the Kinderhook Creek, looking south (date unknown)

 

Mills in Stuyvesant Falls (date unknown)

 

Stuyvesant Landing, as seen from the Hudson River (date unknown)

 

Old general store in Stuyvesant Falls (date unknown)

 

Odd Fellows Home in Stuyvesant (date unknown)

 

Propst Horse Shoeing shop at 35 North 5th Street in Hudson, now D & D Deli (date unknown)

 

Entrance to Rip Van Winkle Bridge on Catskill side (c. 1934)

 

Warren Street between 5th and 6th streets, with present-day City Hall (c. 1900)

 

Looking south down Willard Place in Hudson (date unknown)

 

Looking downriver from Promenade Park a/k/a Parade Hill in Hudson (date unknown)

 

Union Street in Hudson (date unknown)

 

The Square Restaurant, 744 Columbia Street (c. 1937-38)

 

Interior of the Square Restaurant, 744 Columbia Street (c. 1937-38)

 

New York Training School for Girls (c. 1913), now the Hudson Correctional Facility

 

The St. Charles Hotel on Park Place in its heyday (exact date unknown)

 

St. Maryıs Church, corner of East Allen and East Court streets (date unknown)

 

The Armory in Hudson at State and 5th Street (1906 or 1916)

 

Former Prospect Park Hotel in Catskill (date unknown)

 

Hudson's 4th Street School, demolished in early 1990s (image c. 1909)

 

Warren Street between 4th and 5th streets in Hudson (date unknown)

 

Greene Street, corner of Fairview Avenue in Hudson (date unknown)

 

Former Hudson playhouse (date and location unknown)

 

Allen Street in Hudson (date unknown)

 

401 State Street in Hudson, now the Columbia County office building (c. 1934)

 

Promenade Park/"Parade Hill" in Hudson, looking upriver (date unknown)

 

The Coxsackie Lighthouse (c. 1910)

 

Another view of the Coxsackie Lighthouse (c. 1900-1910)

 

Looking north along Worth Avenue in Hudson (date unknown)

 

Postcard of rural scene in Columbia County (c. 1948)

 

"Birdseye" view of Hudson (date unknown)

 

Old pump in Hudson (c. 1909)

 

Bay Road (now Route 9G) and the South Bay, with Mount Merino (date unknown)

 

Columbia County Courthouse in Hudson, designed by Warren & Wetmore (date unknown)

 

New York State Fireman's Home in Hudson (date unknown)

 

Interior view of American Museum of Firefighting (date unknown)

 

Interior view of American Museum of Firefighting (date unknown)

 

Sanford Gifford painting of Mount Merino (1851-2)

 

Hudson-Athens Lighthouse (date unknown)

 

Colorized view of the South Bay and Bay Road (date unknown)

 

A parade up Warren Street in Hudson (circa 1940s-50s)

 

7th Street Park in Hudson, looking north (date unknown)

 

Hudson Post Office (date unknown)

 

First Presbyterian Church in Hudson (date unknown)

 

Statue of Saint Winifred in Promenade Park/Parade Hill in Hudson (date unknown)

 

Photo of South Bay, from a house on Willard Place in Hudson (1893)

 

 

Spook Rock and the Claverack Creek (date unknown)

 

Spook Rock Road (c. 1911)

 

3rd Street in Athens (date unknown)

 

2nd Street in Athens (date unknown)

 

Looking up 2nd Street in Athens (date unknown)

 

Ferry dock in Athens (date unknown)

 

Athens and Hudson Ferry (date unknown)

 

Howard Hall swimming pool at Catskill (20th Century)

 

Franklin Street in Athens (20th Century)

 

Mountain Top Inn in West Athens (20th Century)

 

New Baltimore waterfront (date unknown)

 

Phoebe Rock, Murderer's Creek in Athens (date unknown)

 

Snowy day on Washington Street in Athens (date unknown)

 

Summer day on Washington Street in Athens (date unknown)

 

"The old windmill" in Athens (date unknown)

 

J.G. Milbert engraving of Hudson River from Parade Hill in Hudson (1828-29)

 

"Aerial" map of Catskill (c. 1880s)

 

"Aerial" map of Chatham (c. 1880s)

 

"Aerial" map of Millerton (c. 1880s)

 

Looking west down Warren Street in Hudson (circa 1915-1930)

 

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If you have information about any of these images, including locations, dates, or historical notes, please click HERE to email us so that we can update this page! Other historic images of Hudson, Columbia County and the region are also welcome.

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