The Dunn House in Hastings: An Immigrant Palace

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10 Apr 2023

The Dunn House in Hastings: An Immigrant Palace

April 10, 2023
Keith Doherty
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1800s, 1900s, Uniontown

by Keith Doherty The Dunn House at 5 Pine Street in Hastings-on-Hudson is one of the best-preserved early homes in the village and in the Uniontown neighborhood to which it belongs. It is a prime example of home-grown architecture of a sort very common in the United States in the […]

09 Apr 2022

Remembering Ukrainian Easter Traditions

April 9, 2022
Natalie Barry
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1900s, Reminiscences

by Natalie Barry In the early part of the 20th century, Hastings experienced an influx of immigrants, who came here to work in the industries located on the waterfront. Many came from Eastern Europe and settled in the lower Washington/Warburton Avenue area of our village. The following is some history […]

14 Mar 2022

A Tale of Two Farms

March 14, 2022
Natalie Barry
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1800s, 1900s

by Natalie Barry In the past couple of months, the Hastings Historical Society has gotten several inquiries about farms that operated in our village over a 100 years ago. One inquiry came through our Facebook page, asking if we knew anything about the Curry farm located on the south side […]

06 Oct 2020

Uniontown: The American Dream in Hastings

October 6, 2020
The Hastings Historical Society
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1800s, 1900s, Uniontown

First conceived in the 1830s, Uniontown is the oldest neighborhood in Hastings outside of the original downtown.

09 Sep 2018

Immigration to and Emigration from Schwäbisch Hall

September 9, 2018
The Hastings Historical Society
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1900s, 1910s

One of Hastings’ early shopkeepers, Frederick Breyer, was included in a book recently published by the city archive of Schwäbisch Hall in Germany. The translated title of the book is “Immigration to and Emigration from Schwäbisch Hall: 1600-1914.” For those of you who speak German, we now have a copy […]

19 Aug 2010

Postcards from the Edge (of the Hudson)

August 19, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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1900s, 1960s

The Hastings Historical Society blog is on vacation.

To tide you over, here are a couple of postcards from beautiful and historic Hastings-on-Hudson, one from the 1960s and the other from around 1909.

Wish you were here!

20 May 2010

Title: House Tour Preview: May Yohe – Hastings’ Glamour Girl

May 20, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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1900s, Collection

Hastings has rarely been as close to the international high life as it was at the turn of the century when the actress May Yohe lived here. This weekend, May 22nd & May 23rd bewteen 1 & 5, the house she spent several years in will be on the Historical […]

22 Apr 2010

House Tour Preview: Margaret Sanger’s Window

April 22, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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1900s, 1910s, Collection

Margaret Sanger in a photograph she included in her book My Fight for Birth Control with the caption “Suburban Motherhood.”
In 1998, Margaret Sanger was included in Time Magazine’s 100 Most Important People of the Century for her relentless crusade for women’s rights, and especially for birth control (a […]

25 Mar 2010

Broadway: A Millionaires’ Playground

March 25, 2010
The Hastings Historical Society
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1890s, 1900s, Collection

The New York City Coaching Club’s road coach “Pioneer” stopping to change horses in Hastings on the way to the Ardlsey Country Club, ca. 1900. (This photograph is a detail of the photograph further down the page. Click either one to examine it more closely in Flickr.)
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24 Dec 2009

Volumes of Good Wishes from the Historical Society

December 24, 2009
The Hastings Historical Society
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1900s, 1910s, Collection

In 1982 Algernon Gordon Smith, known to his Hastings friends as Gordon, gave the Historical Society a small scrapbook of greeting cards, two of which you see here. Gordon was a third generation Hastings-ite, and he and his wife were charter members of the society when it was founded back […]

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