Irvington and Sleepy Hollow, NY (9/21/2020)

Monday, September 21, 2020

Katrina with Adaline

Adaline allowed us to have a photo with her!

Unfortunately it was time to leave Rhode Island and head back across Pennsylvania.

A short stop before crossing the Governor Mario M Cuomo Bridge:

Washington Irving Memorial (1927, by Charles A Platt) with
sculptures by Daniel Chester French including a bust of
the author Irving and reliefs of two of Irving's characters:
King Boabdil on the left and Rip Van Winkle on the right

Washington Irving's home, Sunnyside, was not open.

Villa Lewaro (1916-1918, by Vertner Tandy in Italianate style)
was the home of Madame C J Walker, an African-American
self-made millionaire, who developed a line of beauty and hair
products for Black women; Vertner Tandy was the first
African-American architect registered in New York

St Barnabas Episcopal Church (1853 chapel by Rev John McVickar,
1863 expansion by firm of James Renwick, Jr, in Gothic style)

St Barnabas apparently has two Tiffany windows we did not see.

Irvington Presbyterian Church (1869, by
James Renwick, Jr in Romanesque style)

Louis Comfort Tiffany attended Irvington Presbyterian Church as a boy, and in 1913 had a series of 185 blue, green and amber stained-glass windows installed, a unique project in that he designed all the windows in the building and also because of the use of an abstract design rather than ecclesiastical scenes.

An unlocked side door revealed that
renovations to the church were in progress,
but gave a peek at the Tiffany windows

View of the Hudson River from Main Street in Irvington, NY

Also on Main Street: Statue (2002, by Richard Masloski)
of Rip Van Winkle, perhaps the best known character
created by Washington Irving

Irvington Town Hall (1902, by Alfred J Manning, in
Colonial Revival style) has Tiffany mosaic tiles
and glass light fixtures, but it was closed to visitors

Stone fountain memorial to Dr. Isaiah Ashton,
the village physician who died in 1889

After lunch, we headed to Sleepy Hollow, NY.

Headless Horseman sculpture (2006, by
Miglo-Bufkin metal working company) depicts
Washington Irving characters Ichabod Crane
and the Headless Horseman who is throwing
a lighted jack o'lantern that causes Crane's demise

Supposed location of the bridge crossed by Ichabod Crane
in hopes of escaping the Headless Horseman, recounted
in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Old Dutch Church (1685-c 1699, by by Frederick Philipse I)
was made famous by Washington Irving as the haunt of
the Headless Horseman forever looking for replacement head

While the Old Dutch Church Burying Ground was home to
the Headless Horseman, the adjacent Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
is the final resting place for Washington Irving

The Irving family plot

Washington Irving's grave marker in the center

Ha, ha! A pumpkin vine at the Irving plot!

Old Dutch Church Burying Ground

A grave marker inscribed in Dutch

Next: Seven Tubs Nature Area.