2/7/07

Haunted Kingston





There's a website I stumbled onto while following Shaun O'Boyle's favorite links--it's part of the Hudson Valley Ruins site, specifically, Tom Rinaldi's photos of Kingston. I remember the old Town Hall. The new one was this sort of Jack in the Box fast foody thing plunked down in the bombed out post-urban renewal parking lot that was downtown Kingston, circa 1969. The Old Town Hall, now finally re-opened, was, according to the town's nicely written history, a high point of Victorian Gothic, but of course, growing up, it was just a wreck. I'd never been in it...kind of amazing to stumble my way to this post on the Ruins site and see how beautiful it still managed to be, even before restoration.

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