Also Known As The East Gate House
East Gate House
Image:
William K. Vanderbilt Historical Society,
S.G. Moore - Artist
Christmas Card 1973
Pen & Ink
Kachel Collection of Artist Colony Christmas Cards
Description Inside Card:
This original W.K. Vanderbilt building, erected in 1889 at a cost of $40,000, was the fifty mile mark from New York where the bicycle “Century Runs” of yesterday would stop to take a drink from the Vanderbilt well on the highway, sign the gueat books kept at the lodge, and take the return journey back to the city.
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Last Modified on January 30, 2012, at 02:42 PM by LPR
