tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post4964777036510319838..comments2024-03-28T17:55:31.180-04:00Comments on The Gossips of Rivertown: UPDATE: Washington HoseCarole Osterinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-46869213935607742712010-11-18T22:24:23.640-05:002010-11-18T22:24:23.640-05:00Crawford & Associates are involved ?
Enough s...Crawford & Associates are involved ?<br /><br />Enough said.Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05548912912359709568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-40357273509436620242010-11-14T08:44:12.113-05:002010-11-14T08:44:12.113-05:00David Voorhees submitted this comment:
On page 17...David Voorhees submitted this comment:<br /><br />On page 174 of Byrne Fone's Historic Hudson: An Architectural Portrait there is an aerial view of South Front Street showing Washington Hose in the configuration with the turret as it appears in the photograph above. According to Shirley Dunn's 1985 survey for the National Register of Historic Places Inventory, the present brick core of the firehouse was built about 1840. The alterations to the structure in the photograph were apparently undertaken by urban renewal, although it is unclear if it was intended to return the building to its previous form.Carole Osterinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-18345144828727932162010-11-14T00:06:32.313-05:002010-11-14T00:06:32.313-05:00Don--I considered that possibility, after you sugg...Don--I considered that possibility, after you suggested it at the meeting, but I didn't think that Washington Hose, unlike most of the the other fire companies, had been in different locations. According to Ellis--source of the Common Council resolution I quoted in the post--in 1794 there was a resolution to erect two firehouses "over the two Wells . . . for the Reception of fire-engines." One was on Second Street and the other on Main Street. Further quoting Ellis: "Three years later a new engine-house was ordered to be built on the Market square." That's the location of Washington Hose.<br /><br />It has occurred to me that what appears to be another smaller building may just be a stepped parapet. The flat roof on a building like this usually has a fairly steep pitch, so the parapet in the back wouldn't have to be as high as the parapet in the front. It may be an optical illusion that it appears to be set in. <br /><br />What's remarkable to me is that they changed the placement of the second story windows--from a double window and a single window to three single windows symmetrically arranged across the front. Easily done with a clapboard building; not so easily done with a brick building.Carole Osterinkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-64339842608386066022010-11-13T19:31:49.708-05:002010-11-13T19:31:49.708-05:00During the Preservation Committee meeting, Tom Swo...During the Preservation Committee meeting, Tom Swope speculated that the photograph shown here might not be Washington Hose. That observation could be tossed off as speculation. But there is a curious anomaly that is other than the issue of characteristics of the elevation facing, or apparently facing, Front Street. There appears to be a rear section, this would be the west side, that is smaller and set in from the main, two story section. The current main section of WH has no such change in dimension.Don Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05123927706785693239noreply@blogger.com