Valentine's manual of old New York 1924

(New York :  Valentine's Manual Inc.,  1924, c1923.)

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A PLACE UP THE HUDSON
 

In the good old days (which as usual were sandwiched
in with the bad ones) there was a phrase "A place up
the Hudson," and blessed was the creature who owned
such a spot for his summer days.

In the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies, Rocky Glen was
one of these—a lovely, ample, old-fashioned estate with
the lordly Hudson for its next-door neighbor. It was
the summer home of William M. Peck, opposite New
Hamburg. Mr. Peck was one of old New York's ship
owners in the days of the canvas-clouded clipper, before
the arrival of the funnels with their soot, stokers and
storage. One of his ships—the Rocky Glen—carried the
name of his estate across the seven seas, and mayhap
signalled a distant vessel only to find that it was the
William M. Peck or the Wallace Peck of New York.

Almost lapping the foundations of the old mansion lay
the Hudson with its twelve-mile stretch of river view to

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