Portal:Hudson Valley/Did you know/29

• ... that as the architect of the St. Luke's Episcopal Church (pictured) in Beacon, New York, Frederick Clarke Withers designed everything down to the altar cloth?
• ... that the Vassar Institute in Poughkeepsie, New York, now used for a local arts center, is on the former site of a brewery?
• ... that John Watts de Peyster prevented the Tivoli, New York, village board from meeting in the firehouse he had built for them, because of a tax dispute?