Courthouse Pediment

This hodge-podge of details - as representative of late 19th-early 20th Century Municipal Architecture as St. Mary's is of ecclesiastical - mixes Corinthian columns with a Greek Revival pediment, a dome, and a whole basketful fof Victorian frou-frou "garlandage" It's a visual analog to the apparent discordance of "twelve tone" compostion - a sort of "Schoenberg for the eye."

Hudson City Tour

March 1st 2008
The City of Hudson is known for it's architecture. Established in the 1820s as the largest inland whaling port in the US by refugees from Nantucket, it began life as a copy of a New England seaport town. Rumor has it that some of the actual houses first erected were shipped in bundles from from the same mills and housewrights who built most of the old Nantucket houses. The remaining early houses c ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more

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