The Hudson River HighlandsColumbia University Press, 1991 - 264 Seiten Discusses the area's folklore and history, its portrayal in art, the role of West Point as a gateway to America, and the creation of Bear Mountain Park. |
Inhalt
Worlds End | xvii |
General Washingtons Stronghold | 9 |
West Point First Stop on the American Tour | 28 |
Landscape and Dreamscape Hudson River Painters and Knickerbocker Writers | 45 |
The Foundry at Cold Spring | 67 |
Mountain Spa | 79 |
The Landscape Garden The Landscapes and Architecture of AJ Downing | 92 |
Millionaires Row | 108 |
Highways Bridges and Tunnels | 162 |
Dynamite Depression and Design with Nature | 180 |
Storm King | 196 |
The Power of Place | 227 |
Notes | 231 |
Bibliography | 239 |
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The Great Outdoors Bear Mountain Park Conservation and Social Welfare | 134 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
1990 by Robert Albany American Scenery American Scenic Anthony's Nose aqueduct architecture artists Bear Mountain Bridge began Breakneck British built cadet Catskill Catskill Aqueduct Celebration century Clinton Cold Spring Cole Con Ed Con Edison Conservation Society Constitution Island construction Cornwall Courtesy Downing's Dunderberg Edison engineering federal feet fish forest foundry Garrison gorge Governor granite Harriman hills Hudson Highlands Hudson River School Hudson Valley Hudson-Fulton industry interest Interstate Park Commission Knickerbocker land later miles million Morgan Newburgh Osborn painters paintings Palisades Interstate Park picturesque Pollepel Island power plant President proposed pumped storage Putnam County quarrying railroad region Robert Beckhard rock Rockefeller romantic scene Scenic and Historic Scenic Hudson shore sloop steamboat Stillman Storm King Highway Storm King Mountain striped bass summer Taurus tion trees tunnel visitors Washington West Point wilderness William Willis wrote York City
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