Photo Album

	<<=== The Hudson River, the defining element for those who love Esopus Photo circa 1995 by Brother Stephen Kappes		<<===Another winter view with boathouse in the upper background. Photo circa 1995 by Brother Stephen Kappes
The Payne Boathouse from the south. The boathouse was designed by Julian Burroughs and the Captain of the Aphrodite===>> photo taken circa 1915		The boathouse has been restored. Permission to build the dock was granted by an act of the legislature in 1845. ===>> Photo 6 October 2002 by Victor Van Carpels
Photo 21 Sept 2002 by Rich Foy	<<=== In the 1940s, Brother Joseph Cadroes, one of the teachers often sat in this gazebo and watched the students swim off the dock		<<=== Julian Burroughs was especially proud of his design of this peacock for the portcullis closing off the boathouse entry. <<=== Photo 21 Sept 2002 by Rich Foy
The view south from the dock goes well past Hyde Park to a bend in the Hudson. Just below the bend is a four mile straight stretch of the river that for many years was the site of the Poughkeepsie Regatta, one of the few four mile races. ===>> Photo 6 Oct 2002 by Victor VanCarpels		The grill was dropped and left in the water sometime in the 1930s. It has been restored to its former position ===>> Photo 6 October 2002 by Victor VanCarpels
The gazebo was the site of many conversations out of the blazing sun. It also served as a buffet table for picnics. ===>> Photo 21 Sept 2002 by Rich Foy			<<=== The portcullis was raised by an electric hoist located in the upper floor. This hoist also lifted the tender out of the water to drydock it during the ice season. Photo 6 Oct 2002 by Victor VanCarpels
	<<=== The dock survived over eighty harsh, ice-filled winters and the shifting currents of the Hudson estuary. . In the 1990s, the current owner restored the dock. The capstans so proudly designed by Julian Burroughs had been bent when a barge sank during a storm, and they are now gone. So is the barge. The northern section had to be redone, as the original bulwark was in line with the southern section. Photo 21 Sept 2002 by Rich Foy	An observer standing on the dock gains a spectacular view looking north, including Esopus Island, located close to the eastern shore of the Hudson. ===>> Photo 6 October 2002 by Victor VanCarpels
The wall along the road leading to St. Paul's Bay. ===>> Photo 21 Sept 2002 by Rich Foy		Marist Brothers enjoying the riverfront at St. Paul's Bay (formerly the coal dock -- before that the Pratt landing). ===>> Photo circa 1995 by Brother Stephen Kappes
	<<=== The massive coal storage bin sits quietly and unobtrusively within the woods. Coal was unloaded from barges, stored here, and then trucked up to the Payne buildings. Photo 21 Sept 2002 by Rich Foy		<<=== The walls are two or three feet thick, and made from rock quarried on the site. In 1942-1945 we could see the timbers which once held up the roof. The roof had collapsed, and the timbers are not visible today. Photo 21 Sept 2002 by Rich Foy
Three walls of the coal bin were of rock quarried on site. The fourth wall was the rock in the quarry itself. ===>> Photo 21 Sept 2002 by Rich Foy		One of the few vestiges of the several quarries on the Payne property is just above the coal bin. Note the stone cutters' marks on the rock facade. ===>> Photo 21 Sept 2002 by Rich Foy
	<<=== Payne commissioned a pump house at the extreme northern border of his property in the same style as the English Village, including slate roof which withstood almost 100 years of weather. and a fireplace and chimney to warm the caretaker during the bitter winter weather. Photo 21 Sept 2002 by Rich Foy	Photo 21 Sept 2002 by Rich Foy	In the 1940s, Michael Curtin, the father of Broter Herman Edwin, visited the pumphouse daily. Michael and his wife lived in the gatehouse. In the early 1960s a severe winter froze the water to the depth of the intake pipe. The pipe was extended further into the river, but eventually artesian wells were utilized for regular water. The river pump house still supplies the icehouse lake and swimming pool.
The lintel over the boathouse front door marks the construction at 1915. ===>> Photo 6 October 2002 by Victor VanCarpels		The Boathouse as it appears today from the river. Note the Julian Burroughs grillwork has been restored and placed in its proper position. The northern portion of the dock adjacent to the boathouse has been cut back and reinforced. ===>> photo circa 2002 courtesy Charles Houghton
		<<=== Payne's yacht, the Aphrodite, was usually moored below the mansion, with a tender carrying guests to the boathouse and dock. photo received from Payne Fund, Cleveland, Ohio, courtesy Christopher Eiben