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This is outside The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, located in downtown Santa Fe - we hoped to go in, but it was closed...
another reason to go back : )
If you zoom in, there are some pretty details.
This striking portrait captures an Osprey, scientifically known as Pandion haliaetus, at the Avian Reconditioning Center in Apopka, Florida. The photograph zooms in on the bird's piercing eyes and formidable beak, features that make the Osprey a highly efficient fisher. The shallow depth of field effectively blurs the background, allowing the bird to take center stage and enabling the viewer to focus solely on its features.
As a photographer, getting this shot required patience and a keen understanding of the Osprey's movements. The lighting conditions were also optimal, highlighting the bird's distinct facial markings and the intricate textures of its feathers. This image is more than just a snapshot; it's a testament to the Osprey's adaptability and survival skills, qualities that make it a fascinating subject for wildlife photography.
©2020 Adam Rainoff
Blowing Rocks Preserve is an environmental preserve on Jupiter Island in Hobe Sound, Martin County, Florida, USA. Owned by The Nature Conservancy, it contains the largest limestone outcropping on the state's east coast, part of the Anastasia Formation. Breaking waves spray plumes of water up to 50 feet (15 m) in height through erosional holes, hence the moniker blowing rocks; this distinctive spectacle thus earned the limestone outcrop's name. The limestone outcropping also encompasses coquina, crustaceans, and sand, protruding visibly from the beach.
The preserve also features several coastal communities, including maritime hammocks, mangrove-dominated wetlands, and oceanfront dunes. Common native species include sea grapes, gumbo limbo, and Sabal palms. Invasive exotic plants are removed in order to preserve indigenous flora. The preserve includes an educational center, native plant nursery, boardwalk, oceanside path, and butterfly garden. The Hawley Education Center features rotating natural history and art exhibits and offers environmental education classes and workshops. A boardwalk along the Indian River Lagoon contains interpretive signs about the plants, wildlife, and environs.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_Rocks_Preserve
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
Blowing Rocks Preserve is an environmental preserve on Jupiter Island in Hobe Sound, Martin County, Florida, USA. Owned by The Nature Conservancy, it contains the largest limestone outcropping on the state's east coast, part of the Anastasia Formation. Breaking waves spray plumes of water up to 50 feet (15 m) in height through erosional holes, hence the moniker blowing rocks; this distinctive spectacle thus earned the limestone outcrop's name. The limestone outcropping also encompasses coquina, crustaceans, and sand, protruding visibly from the beach.
The preserve also features several coastal communities, including maritime hammocks, mangrove-dominated wetlands, and oceanfront dunes. Common native species include sea grapes, gumbo limbo, and Sabal palms. Invasive exotic plants are removed in order to preserve indigenous flora. The preserve includes an educational center, native plant nursery, boardwalk, oceanside path, and butterfly garden. The Hawley Education Center features rotating natural history and art exhibits and offers environmental education classes and workshops. A boardwalk along the Indian River Lagoon contains interpretive signs about the plants, wildlife, and environs.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_Rocks_Preserve
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
Blowing Rocks Preserve is an environmental preserve on Jupiter Island in Hobe Sound, Martin County, Florida, USA. Owned by The Nature Conservancy, it contains the largest limestone outcropping on the state's east coast, part of the Anastasia Formation. Breaking waves spray plumes of water up to 50 feet (15 m) in height through erosional holes, hence the moniker blowing rocks; this distinctive spectacle thus earned the limestone outcrop's name. The limestone outcropping also encompasses coquina, crustaceans, and sand, protruding visibly from the beach.
The preserve also features several coastal communities, including maritime hammocks, mangrove-dominated wetlands, and oceanfront dunes. Common native species include sea grapes, gumbo limbo, and Sabal palms. Invasive exotic plants are removed in order to preserve indigenous flora. The preserve includes an educational center, native plant nursery, boardwalk, oceanside path, and butterfly garden. The Hawley Education Center features rotating natural history and art exhibits and offers environmental education classes and workshops. A boardwalk along the Indian River Lagoon contains interpretive signs about the plants, wildlife, and environs.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_Rocks_Preserve
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
Blowing Rocks Preserve is an environmental preserve on Jupiter Island in Hobe Sound, Martin County, Florida, USA. Owned by The Nature Conservancy, it contains the largest limestone outcropping on the state's east coast, part of the Anastasia Formation. Breaking waves spray plumes of water up to 50 feet (15 m) in height through erosional holes, hence the moniker blowing rocks; this distinctive spectacle thus earned the limestone outcrop's name. The limestone outcropping also encompasses coquina, crustaceans, and sand, protruding visibly from the beach.
The preserve also features several coastal communities, including maritime hammocks, mangrove-dominated wetlands, and oceanfront dunes. Common native species include sea grapes, gumbo limbo, and Sabal palms. Invasive exotic plants are removed in order to preserve indigenous flora. The preserve includes an educational center, native plant nursery, boardwalk, oceanside path, and butterfly garden. The Hawley Education Center features rotating natural history and art exhibits and offers environmental education classes and workshops. A boardwalk along the Indian River Lagoon contains interpretive signs about the plants, wildlife, and environs.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_Rocks_Preserve
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
Blowing Rocks Preserve is an environmental preserve on Jupiter Island in Hobe Sound, Martin County, Florida, USA. Owned by The Nature Conservancy, it contains the largest limestone outcropping on the state's east coast, part of the Anastasia Formation. Breaking waves spray plumes of water up to 50 feet (15 m) in height through erosional holes, hence the moniker blowing rocks; this distinctive spectacle thus earned the limestone outcrop's name. The limestone outcropping also encompasses coquina, crustaceans, and sand, protruding visibly from the beach.
The preserve also features several coastal communities, including maritime hammocks, mangrove-dominated wetlands, and oceanfront dunes. Common native species include sea grapes, gumbo limbo, and Sabal palms. Invasive exotic plants are removed in order to preserve indigenous flora. The preserve includes an educational center, native plant nursery, boardwalk, oceanside path, and butterfly garden. The Hawley Education Center features rotating natural history and art exhibits and offers environmental education classes and workshops. A boardwalk along the Indian River Lagoon contains interpretive signs about the plants, wildlife, and environs.
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This is the place to which John Jay returned after negotiating the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War.
"Jay quitted Paris in May, Seventeen Hundred Eighty-four, having been gone from his native land eight years. When he reached New York there was a great demonstration in his honor. Triumphal arches were erected across Broadway, houses and stores were decorated with bunting, cannons boomed, and bells rang. The freedom of the city was presented to him in a gold box, with an exceedingly complimentary address, engrossed on parchment, and signed by one hundred of the leading citizens.
Jay spent just one day in New York, and then rode on horseback up to the old farm at Rye, Westchester County...that evening there was a service of thanksgiving at the village church, after which the citizens repaired to the Jay mansion, one story high and eighty feet long, where a barrel of cider was tapped, and "a groce of Church Wardens" passed around, with free tobacco for all.
John Jay stood on the front porch and made a modest speech just five minutes long, among other things saying he had come home to be a neighbor to them, having quit public life for good. But he refused to talk about his own experiences in Europe. His reticence, however, was made up for by good old Peter Jay, who assured the people that John Jay was America's foremost citizen; and in this statement he was backed up by the village preacher, with not a dissenting voice from the assembled citizens."
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The photo above is of an original pencil sketch of the buildings and landscape of the Jay family property in Rye situated between Boston Post Road and Long Island Sound. The estate was aptly called "The Locusts" for 3 locust trees that stood in the forefront. John Jay's father, Peter Jay purchased the land for this home in 1745 from John Budd and in 1746, he moved his family from Manhattan to Rye to spare them the threat of the smallpox epidemic that had already blinded 2 Jay children. Jay was 3 months old at the time of the move and he grew up in Rye on this 250 acre parcel which eventually grew to 400 acres. At 14 years old, Jay left to study at Kings College (now Columbia) but he would return to this home throughout his career as a refuge from public life and to be with his family. Jay chose this sylvan coastal property for his final resting place. He established a private cemetery in 1807 for himself and his descendants and was buried there in 1829. This cemetery is separate from one established for the burial of the men and women that the Jay family enslaved.
Because the 1838 mansion was built atop the footprint of this 18th century farmhouse, and oriented in the same position towards the Sound, it is hoped this rendering which shows other buildings on the property will give clues to archaeologists today to find the locations of their foundations and the surrounding 18th century gardens. Already the late Professor Bruce Byland discovered what may be the foundation of one of the two buildings on the far left, believed to be barns or buildings where enslaved women and men worked or lived. John Jay's father Peter owned at least 10-12 people in Rye and we know many of their names including Mary, Zilpha, Hannah, Anthony, Susan, Clarinda, London and Plato. The site is one of 16 on the Westchester County African American Heritage Trail -- it is a place where enslaved individuals worked but also where they were freed and many even baptized, married and buried according to records at Christ's Church in Rye. The drawing has been enlarged and successfully used in our acclaimed school program "Striving for Freedom."
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Of literary note is the fact that the "The Locusts" is widely believed to have been an inspiration for the Wharton House in James Fenimore Cooper's novel 'The Spy."
In this tale, inspired by a story John Jay himself told Cooper, "The Wharton family" lived at "The Locusts" and their house was situated so "...the fall of the land to the level of the tide water afforded a view of the Sound* over the tops of the distant woods on its margin." Cooper further explained the Sound to readers unfamiliar with its location: " *An island more than forty leagues in length lies opposite the coasts of New York and Connecticut. The arm of the sea which separates it from the main is technically called a sound, and in that part of the country, par excellence, 'The' Sound. This sheet of water varies in breadth from five to thirty miles."
Mary E. Phillips in her book "James Fenimore Cooper" also drew attention to another connection between the Jay's Rye home and "The Spy":
"From "Portraits of Cooper's Heroines," by the Rev. Ralph Birdsall of Cooperstown, is gleaned: On the walls of the Newport home of the Rev. John Cornell hang two old portraits that have close connection with the inner history of "The Spy." To their present owner they came from the New York home of his mother, the late Mrs. Isaac Cornell, and to her they came from the Somerville, New Jersey, home of her father, Mr. Richard Bancker Duyckinck, who in his turn received them from his aunt, Mrs. Peter Jay,--the subject of one of these portraits and at one time mistress of the Jay mansion at Rye. Over one hundred years ago it was that, from the walls of this rare old home at Rye, Westchester County, the grace of these ladies on canvas caught James Cooper's thought to use them, by description, in his coming book, "The Spy." Chapter XIII describes closely the personal appearance and style of dress of these portraits. "Jeanette Peyton," the maiden aunt of Cooper's story, owes her mature charm to the portrait of Mary Duyckinck, wife of Peter Jay. From the "cap of exquisite lawn and lace," her gown of rich silk, short sleeves and "large ruffles" of lace which with "the experience of forty years," also veiled her shoulders, to the triple row of large pearls about her throat,--all these details are found in Cooper's text-picture of Jeanette Peyton. His "Sarah Wharton" no less closely follows the portrait of Mrs. Jay's older sister, Sarah Duyckinck, who became Mrs. Richard Bancker. Her name Sarah may have been given purposely to Sarah Wharton of Cooper's story. Cooper was thirty-two when it was written, and it is not unlikely that Mrs. Jay, then eighty-five years of age, was pleased with this delicate tribute the young novelist paid to the beauty of her own and her sister's youth." These two portraits today are part of the collection of the Museum of the City of New York.
James Fenimore Cooper was a longtime friend of the Jay family, enjoying visits to their homes, and a lively correspondence with both Peter Augustus Jay and his wife Mary Rutherfurd Jay.
The 23-acre Jay Estate in Rye, New York was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993 and has been managed by the nonprofit Jay Heritage Center since 2013.
Jay Heritage Center
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
Member of the African American Heritage Trail of Westchester County since 2004
Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009
On NY State's Path Through History (2013)
Blowing Rocks Preserve is an environmental preserve on Jupiter Island in Hobe Sound, Martin County, Florida, USA. Owned by The Nature Conservancy, it contains the largest limestone outcropping on the state's east coast, part of the Anastasia Formation. Breaking waves spray plumes of water up to 50 feet (15 m) in height through erosional holes, hence the moniker blowing rocks; this distinctive spectacle thus earned the limestone outcrop's name. The limestone outcropping also encompasses coquina, crustaceans, and sand, protruding visibly from the beach.
The preserve also features several coastal communities, including maritime hammocks, mangrove-dominated wetlands, and oceanfront dunes. Common native species include sea grapes, gumbo limbo, and Sabal palms. Invasive exotic plants are removed in order to preserve indigenous flora. The preserve includes an educational center, native plant nursery, boardwalk, oceanside path, and butterfly garden. The Hawley Education Center features rotating natural history and art exhibits and offers environmental education classes and workshops. A boardwalk along the Indian River Lagoon contains interpretive signs about the plants, wildlife, and environs.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_Rocks_Preserve
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
Blowing Rocks Preserve is an environmental preserve on Jupiter Island in Hobe Sound, Martin County, Florida, USA. Owned by The Nature Conservancy, it contains the largest limestone outcropping on the state's east coast, part of the Anastasia Formation. Breaking waves spray plumes of water up to 50 feet (15 m) in height through erosional holes, hence the moniker blowing rocks; this distinctive spectacle thus earned the limestone outcrop's name. The limestone outcropping also encompasses coquina, crustaceans, and sand, protruding visibly from the beach.
The preserve also features several coastal communities, including maritime hammocks, mangrove-dominated wetlands, and oceanfront dunes. Common native species include sea grapes, gumbo limbo, and Sabal palms. Invasive exotic plants are removed in order to preserve indigenous flora. The preserve includes an educational center, native plant nursery, boardwalk, oceanside path, and butterfly garden. The Hawley Education Center features rotating natural history and art exhibits and offers environmental education classes and workshops. A boardwalk along the Indian River Lagoon contains interpretive signs about the plants, wildlife, and environs.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_Rocks_Preserve
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
Blowing Rocks Preserve is an environmental preserve on Jupiter Island in Hobe Sound, Martin County, Florida, USA. Owned by The Nature Conservancy, it contains the largest limestone outcropping on the state's east coast, part of the Anastasia Formation. Breaking waves spray plumes of water up to 50 feet (15 m) in height through erosional holes, hence the moniker blowing rocks; this distinctive spectacle thus earned the limestone outcrop's name. The limestone outcropping also encompasses coquina, crustaceans, and sand, protruding visibly from the beach.
The preserve also features several coastal communities, including maritime hammocks, mangrove-dominated wetlands, and oceanfront dunes. Common native species include sea grapes, gumbo limbo, and Sabal palms. Invasive exotic plants are removed in order to preserve indigenous flora. The preserve includes an educational center, native plant nursery, boardwalk, oceanside path, and butterfly garden. The Hawley Education Center features rotating natural history and art exhibits and offers environmental education classes and workshops. A boardwalk along the Indian River Lagoon contains interpretive signs about the plants, wildlife, and environs.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_Rocks_Preserve
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
Blowing Rocks Preserve is an environmental preserve on Jupiter Island in Hobe Sound, Martin County, Florida, USA. Owned by The Nature Conservancy, it contains the largest limestone outcropping on the state's east coast, part of the Anastasia Formation. Breaking waves spray plumes of water up to 50 feet (15 m) in height through erosional holes, hence the moniker blowing rocks; this distinctive spectacle thus earned the limestone outcrop's name. The limestone outcropping also encompasses coquina, crustaceans, and sand, protruding visibly from the beach.
The preserve also features several coastal communities, including maritime hammocks, mangrove-dominated wetlands, and oceanfront dunes. Common native species include sea grapes, gumbo limbo, and Sabal palms. Invasive exotic plants are removed in order to preserve indigenous flora. The preserve includes an educational center, native plant nursery, boardwalk, oceanside path, and butterfly garden. The Hawley Education Center features rotating natural history and art exhibits and offers environmental education classes and workshops. A boardwalk along the Indian River Lagoon contains interpretive signs about the plants, wildlife, and environs.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_Rocks_Preserve
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
Blowing Rocks Preserve is an environmental preserve on Jupiter Island in Hobe Sound, Martin County, Florida, USA. Owned by The Nature Conservancy, it contains the largest limestone outcropping on the state's east coast, part of the Anastasia Formation. Breaking waves spray plumes of water up to 50 feet (15 m) in height through erosional holes, hence the moniker blowing rocks; this distinctive spectacle thus earned the limestone outcrop's name. The limestone outcropping also encompasses coquina, crustaceans, and sand, protruding visibly from the beach.
The preserve also features several coastal communities, including maritime hammocks, mangrove-dominated wetlands, and oceanfront dunes. Common native species include sea grapes, gumbo limbo, and Sabal palms. Invasive exotic plants are removed in order to preserve indigenous flora. The preserve includes an educational center, native plant nursery, boardwalk, oceanside path, and butterfly garden. The Hawley Education Center features rotating natural history and art exhibits and offers environmental education classes and workshops. A boardwalk along the Indian River Lagoon contains interpretive signs about the plants, wildlife, and environs.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
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View from the funicular leading up to the main level of the Centre for Alternative Technology (in the southern part of Meirionydd, Gwynedd, northwestern Wales, near Machynlleth, which is in Powys, Mid Wales), on a mostly sunny morning in early May.
This view is towards the northwest, with mountains of southern Snowdonia, in Snowdonia National Park (in Welsh, Parc Cenedlaethol Erythri), which has a boundary just across the road (the A487) from the Centre. The higher peak in the background may be part of Cadair Idris(?), one of the highest mountains in the southern part of the Park.
According to the Centre's Website (consulted 1 March 2014), "CAT is an education and visitor centre demonstrating practical solutions for sustainability. We cover all aspects of green living: environmental building, eco-sanitation, woodland management, renewable energy, energy efficiency and organic growing." It was founded on the site of a former slate quarry in 1973 and has since expanded considerably from its original size and scope. (My husband and I first visited it in 1989, then saw the extent of its growth when we returned in 2012.) The water-powered funicular is just one example of its reliance on the the types of alternative energy and modes of living that it demonstrates.
[Centre for Alternative Technology funicular mountain Snowdonia 2012 may 6 p; P1000250, zoom]
Blowing Rocks Preserve is an environmental preserve on Jupiter Island in Hobe Sound, Martin County, Florida, USA. Owned by The Nature Conservancy, it contains the largest limestone outcropping on the state's east coast, part of the Anastasia Formation. Breaking waves spray plumes of water up to 50 feet (15 m) in height through erosional holes, hence the moniker blowing rocks; this distinctive spectacle thus earned the limestone outcrop's name. The limestone outcropping also encompasses coquina, crustaceans, and sand, protruding visibly from the beach.
The preserve also features several coastal communities, including maritime hammocks, mangrove-dominated wetlands, and oceanfront dunes. Common native species include sea grapes, gumbo limbo, and Sabal palms. Invasive exotic plants are removed in order to preserve indigenous flora. The preserve includes an educational center, native plant nursery, boardwalk, oceanside path, and butterfly garden. The Hawley Education Center features rotating natural history and art exhibits and offers environmental education classes and workshops. A boardwalk along the Indian River Lagoon contains interpretive signs about the plants, wildlife, and environs.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_Rocks_Preserve
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
Blowing Rocks Preserve is an environmental preserve on Jupiter Island in Hobe Sound, Martin County, Florida, USA. Owned by The Nature Conservancy, it contains the largest limestone outcropping on the state's east coast, part of the Anastasia Formation. Breaking waves spray plumes of water up to 50 feet (15 m) in height through erosional holes, hence the moniker blowing rocks; this distinctive spectacle thus earned the limestone outcrop's name. The limestone outcropping also encompasses coquina, crustaceans, and sand, protruding visibly from the beach.
The preserve also features several coastal communities, including maritime hammocks, mangrove-dominated wetlands, and oceanfront dunes. Common native species include sea grapes, gumbo limbo, and Sabal palms. Invasive exotic plants are removed in order to preserve indigenous flora. The preserve includes an educational center, native plant nursery, boardwalk, oceanside path, and butterfly garden. The Hawley Education Center features rotating natural history and art exhibits and offers environmental education classes and workshops. A boardwalk along the Indian River Lagoon contains interpretive signs about the plants, wildlife, and environs.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing_Rocks_Preserve
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
The information centre on the main level of the Centre for Alternative Technology (in the southern part of Meirionydd, Gwynedd, northwestern Wales, near Machynlleth, which is in Powys, Mid Wales), on a mostly sunny morning in early May.
Like the other structures at the Centre, it is designed as an example of environmentally sustainable, green architecture. In this case, the building recalls traditional Japanese houses.
According to the Centre's Website (consulted 1 March 2014), "CAT is an education and visitor centre demonstrating practical solutions for sustainability. We cover all aspects of green living: environmental building, eco-sanitation, woodland management, renewable energy, energy efficiency and organic growing." It was founded on the site of a former slate quarry in 1973 and has since expanded considerably from its original size and scope.
(My husband and I first visited it in 1989, then saw the extent of its growth when we returned in 2012.)
Slate blocks, chippings, and structures, such as the pool and fountain in this view, abound on the grounds of the Centre. This building included an information centre and display, a café, and a gift shop.
[Centre for Alternative Technology information building pool 2012 may 6 p; P1000256]
The base of the funicular leading up to the main level of the Centre for Alternative Technology (in the southern part of Meirionydd, Gwynedd, northwestern Wales, near Machynlleth, which is in Powys, Mid Wales), on a mostly sunny morning in early May.
On the table, a publication appropriate to the centre's theme and a container filled with daffodils appropriate to its Welsh location.
According to its website (consulted 1 March 2014), "CAT -- whose Welsh name is Canolfan y Dechnoleg Amgen -- is an education and visitor centre demonstrating practical solutions for sustainability. We cover all aspects of green living: environmental building, eco-sanitation, woodland management, renewable energy, energy efficiency and organic growing." It was founded on the site of a former slate quarry in 1973 and has since expanded considerably from its original size and scope. (My husband and I first visited it in 1989, then saw the extent of its growth when we returned in 2012.) The water-powered funicular is just one example of its reliance on the types of alternative energy and modes of living that it demonstrates.
[Centre for Alternative Technology base daffodils funicular 2012 may 6 p; P1000319]
EDUCATIONAL CENTER RECEIVES PRESTIGIOUS DESIGNATIONS AND ACCOLADES FOR INNOVATIVE PRESERVATION STRATEGY
The Jay family home is being carefully restored and managed by the not-for-profit organization, the Jay Heritage Center (JHC) for use as an educational facility hosting Programs in American History, Architecture, Social Justice, Landscape Conservation and Environmental Stewardship as well as concerts, plays and art exhibits. The 1838 PA Jay House is an official project of the Save America’s Treasures Program and at 172 years old, it is the oldest National Historic Landmark structure in New York State to be using an energy efficient geothermal heating and cooling system.
Because of its historic significance and in recognition of its green management practices, it was unanimously awarded a prestigious place on the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area list in January 2009, one of only 2 sites designated that year, the other being the Walkway over the Hudson. As a member of this congressionally funded group of significant heritage places, it is in the company of Lyndhurst, Kykuit, Caramoor and Walkway over the Hudson.
The Jay site is also one of only 13 sites listed on Westchester County’s African American Heritage Trail. John Jay is well known for advocating emancipation, serving as President of the Manumission Society in 1785 and establishing the first African Free School. His son Peter Augustus was also President of the Manumission Society and a vocal advocate of voting suffrage for freed blacks at the 1821 New York Convention.
VISIT OR CONTACT THE JAY HERITAGE CENTER
A second building being restored by the JHC, is the 1907 Van Norden Carriage House, a Classical Revival masterpiece in its own right; it serves as the JHC Visitor Center and houses the permanent exhibit “The Design of Providence” that explores the cultural imprints that mankind leaves on the landscape and how that very same landscape shapes human character and behavior. The Carriage House is the site of regular performances of "Striving for Freedom," an interactive theatre production about slavery in New York, as well as concerts, architecture camps for kids and lectures for groups up to 150 people.
Tours of the 1838 Peter Augustus Jay House and its exhibits are held on Sundays from 2-5 pm May 1st through October 1st and by appointment. The 1907 Carriage House is open year round, Wednesdays through Fridays, 10:00 -5:00 pm, except on holidays. For more information and to arrange school group tours, please contact the Jay Heritage Center at (914) 698-9275, or E-mail us at jayheritagecenter@gmail.com.
Jay Heritage Center
210 Boston Post Road
Rye, NY 10580
(914) 698-9275
Email: jayheritagecenter@gmail.com
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
Member of the African American Heritage Trail of Westchester County since 2004
Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009
On NY State's Path Through History (2013)
Preparing to move USS Iowa (BB-61) from Berth 50-51 to Home at Berth 87, San Pedro, California;
few of the hundreds of dignitaries, invited guests, and news media have yet been allowed on board, as the tractor tugs about to begin attaching lines.
As of this day, all crew are required to be in uniform; our 'Navy'-type officer caps weren't received yet, but a ballcap is perfect; it's what the crew of a Navy ship wears. The uniforms add to the intent to give visitors an experience as if on a fully-operational United States Navy warship. Part of this crew served aboard BB-61 when she was plying the open seas! And one of our guests, a 90-year old former battleship sailor, served on the USS Iowa in 1944! He witnessed the end of the war in Tokyo Bay, Japan, while surrender documents were being signed aboard Iowa's sister-battleship, USS Missouri (also a floating museum in Hawaii).
An old padlock on the door of a barn at the Burritt on the Mountain, a museum and educational center on Monte Sano Mountain in Huntsville, AL.
I was in a San Pedro restaurant just prior to boarding the battleship... I was in my uniform and Iowa' ballcap, when a pretty lass asked me a question about today's events. Of course, I asked her name: Loori Sheple, who was representing Reutersmedia; this is her photo published on msnbc.
One of the night shots I took as part of a collaboration with lighting guy Terry Queeley of Qideas.ca . We spent a volunteer evening lighting and photographing the chimney court at the historic Evergreen Brickworks. This was my favorite shot of the night but you can see more highlights on my blog at www.lenstoweb.com. Again if you like my photography www.robertgreatrixphotography.ca is the place to see more of my best work. Cheers.
Visit to the MSU Tollgate Farm and Education Center in Novi Michigan on Saturday April 22, 2017, right before I hurt my back. I took these later in the day on the 22nd. What a beautiful site from Michigan State University Extension.
Palmate wood carved crestings and compo anthemia (stylized honeysuckle ornaments) decorate the doorways (architraves) of the 1838 Peter Augustus Jay House Drawing Room. These details are graceful interpretations of Plate #26, "Details of Silding Doors" in Minard Lafever's "Beauties of Modern Architecture."
As one walks through the Jay mansion from the 1838 Drawing Room to the 1870 Dining Room, one can see the transition in styles of the period as these ornate hand carved overlays (they are NOT compo) were later completely removed from each door creating a new and much starker treatment.
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[O]ne of America's intrinsic sacred sites --'specially special,' if you like -- because a great family's great house and its great and sweeping surrounding landscape have, almost miraculously, both survived intact and are now a permanent part of the America the next centuries of Americans will build." Tony Hiss, Author, Experience of Place.
Jay Heritage Center
210 Boston Post Road
Rye, NY 10580
(914) 698-9275
Email: jayheritagecenter@gmail.com
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
Member of the African American Heritage Trail of Westchester County since 2004
Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009
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Photo taken at Irvine Regional Park (Educational Center), Irvine, CA on March 18, 2015
©Anthony Gliozzo
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Visit to the MSU Tollgate Farm and Education Center in Novi Michigan on Saturday April 22, 2017, right before I hurt my back. I took these later in the day on the 22nd. What a beautiful site from Michigan State University Extension.
These floor to ceiling pocket windows in the 1838 Peter Augustus Jay House are a fascinating original feature that allowed the breezes from the Sound to blow through the house and cool it naturally. When opened In the spring and summer, they also act as additional doors to the outside veranda.
Folding pocket shutters flanking each window are another practical design feature that traditionally allowed the room to be shaded and cooled with the pull of a knob.
Of course the Jay house was perfectly situated atop a gentle knoll when it was built in 1838; site selection was a thoughtful and deliberate part of constructing a home in the 18th and 19th centuries. Windows like these would have also maximized the amount of light afforded by this exposure in a period without electricity.
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From wikipedia:
Inaugurated as Sindh Arts College by Lord Reay, Governor of Bombay, on January 17, 1887, the college was renamed D. J. Science College upon completion of the present structure on October 15, 1882. Located in the heart of old Karachi, the foundation stone for this college was laid on November 19, 1887, by Lord Dufferin, Viceroy of India. The college is named after Diwan Dayaram Jethmal, its main benefactor. The cost of construction is reported to have been Rs.186,514 out of which the government contributed Rs. 97,193, the balance being raised through public donations.
D.J.Sindh Government Science College began primarily as an Arts college with only 28 students and 5 members on its staff.
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Original 1936 stamp cancellation for Rye, NY Post Office 10580 (JHC Archives)
Rye has been known as the home town of Founding Father John Jay (1745 -1829) for centuries. Jay's family moved to Rye when he was 3 months old following their purchase of a 250 acre estate overlooking Long Island Sound from John Budd. A subsequent purchase increased their homestead to 400 acres and it was here in Westchester, on the Boston Post Road, that one of our nation's greatest patriots grew up. The young Jay returned to Rye throughout his career to celebrate many milestones with family and friends including his own part in negotiating the Treaty of Paris.
Cognizant of Jay's integral role in the shaping of American history and his Rye roots, Congresswoman Caroline O' Day, a close friend of President and Eleanor Roosevelt, suggested during the WPA era that this New York native be the subject of a mural commission by Guy Pene du Bois inside the new Rye Post Office that was being built. O'Day's efforts and the issuance of this stamp cancellation to commemorate the ribbon cutting and opening of the facility on September 5, 1936 both created a renewed focus on Jay:
"Considerable interest in the life of John Jay has been awakened by the mural on the wall of the Rye Post Office depicting the departure of the famous patriot from the Jay homestead on the Post Road." Rye Chronicle, February 11, 1938.
Du Bois' masterpiece depicting Jay's original farmhouse, "The Locusts" (where he grew up and which he later owned between 1813 and 1822) is still there today in the lobby. The Rye Post Office itself was renamed the "Caroline O' Day" Post Office in 2009 thanks to the cooperative efforts of Congresswoman Nita Lowey and Rye resident and historian, Paul Hicks
To read a terrific article about Caroline O'Day and her role in history:
www.historycooperative.org/journals/nyh/88.3/hicks.html
Today John Jay's home in Rye is a National Historic Landmark, the centerpiece of the Boston Post Road Historic District designated by US Department of the Interior. John Jay's boyhood home was further recognized by the City of Rye as a valuable home treasure--the City of Rye Landmarks Preservation Ordinance designates the Jay Property as a Protected Site, and the Jay House and Carriage House as Protected Structures (Rye Code § 117-5E(2)(a)).
[O]ne of America's intrinsic sacred sites --'specially special,' if you like -- because a great family's great house and its great and sweeping surrounding landscape have, almost miraculously, both survived intact and are now a permanent part of the America the next centuries of Americans will build." Tony Hiss, Author, Experience of Place.
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The luminous columns of the 1838 Peter Augustus Jay House highlight the appeal of this style of architecture in America during the mid 1800s. Sympathizing with the fight for democracy that was taking place simultaneously in Greece, Americans also looked to incorporate the elements, in essence, the vocabulary, of classic Greek architecture into their own buildings. This grand Greek Revival mansion is the only one of its kind open to the public in the entire Hudson Valley. (www.jayheritagecenter.org) Most importantly, the house was deliberately preserved with its original context intact, a sweeping landscape which includes a variety of historic garden design features.
As such, there can be no more eloquent classroom than the 23-acre Jay Property, the remaining natural crucible where the character of the only 1 of the 7 Founding Fathers native to New York State was formed and where he passed on the legacy of social responsiblity to his descendants.
Following a first phase of extensive preservation and restoration, this NHL structure soars visually and conceptually. Built with elements recycled from John Jay's own boyhood farmhouse of 1745, the building continues to inspire green practices and stewardship; today its is the oldest NHL structure in all of New York State with a geothermal heating and cooling system. As an accessible and successful model of adaptive reuse, it is a vital and interactive edcuational center hosting programs in American History, Social Justice, Landscape Conservation and Environmental Stewardship.
Note: The capitals of the columns are highly stylized and a rare configuration known as "Tower of the Winds" or "Temple of the Winds."
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The plaque above reads "This is one of some 230 markers erected on the Boston Post Road in 1763. Their locations were fixed by Benjamin Franklin the Deputy Postmaster General who for that purpose drove a chaise with a distance recorder over the route. Restored to this its original position June 1st, 1927, by the village of Rye. Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set." (Proverbs XXII Verse 28.)" But is it the original or a replacement? It is made of fragile sandstone and similar stones in the Westchester area have been dated to the early 1800s which raises questions about the claims made on the plaque. There is also a school of thought based on Franklin's own letters and whereabouts that says he may not have supervised placement of any of the stones.
Whatever their actual date, they are still likely to be at least over 200 years old and are valuable historical resources illustrating our American heritage. Want to find other markers on the Boston Post Road? Go to the Historical Marker database at www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=34587
The Boston Post Road was originally an Indian trail called the Pequot Path; it is the oldest road in America (1672) and was called the King's Highway or King's Road in 1683. It was the first post road for sending mail by horse or coach.
In 1800 the Westchester Turnpike Company was incorporated and reconstructed the road and replaced some of the original markers. The road was widened to over 80 feet for the herds of sheep and cattle that were raised in New York and Connecticut and were driven by foot to market in New York City.
Peter Augustus Jay to his father, John Jay, in a letter dated August 21, 1800 remarked at that time:
"...While I was at Rye, I accompanied a Committee of the Turnpike Corporation while they laid out the road from Mamaroneck to Byram. The Road past uncle's farm will not be altered except that a small angle opposite the old stone house will be cut off."
Today all that remains of the original Jay estate is the 23 acre Jay Property bounded in front by the length of this stone wall on Boston Post Road from the entrance at 210 all the way to Barlow Lane. It is a NY State and Westchester County Park, open to the public for historical and educational programs.
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[O]ne of America's intrinsic sacred sites --'specially special,' if you like -- because a great family's great house and its great and sweeping surrounding landscape have, almost miraculously, both survived intact and are now a permanent part of the America the next centuries of Americans will build." Tony Hiss, Author, Experience of Place.
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Conservation of Rye's Mile Marker 24 has begun!
Get day to day updates on our Facebook page!
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We are excited to be working with Amanda Trienens, founder of Cultural Heritage Conservation. She has helped protect and preserve many other early American monuments including the Alexander Hamilton Monument and the Montgomery Monument both located in downtown Manhattan at Trinity Church. Other projects include the Bethesda Terrace, in Central Park; Donald Judd's Untitled Sculpture at The Glass House in New Canaan, CT; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; United States Supreme Court, Washington, DC, TWA Terminal, New York, United Nations, New York. The projects she has worked on have been recognized with awards in excellence from both the Preservation League of New York State and the NY Landmarks Conservancy.
It is also a pleasure to be working with Matthew C. Reiley of Excelsior Art Services. He is also Associate Director of Conservation for the Central Park Conservancy. Matthew is responsible for the care of Central Park’s built environment, which includes a collection of 50+ bronze and stone monuments, historic architecture, fountains, mosaics and other features. Reiley is an Adjunct Faculty Member of the the Graduate School of Architecture Planning Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University and a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC).
Stay tuned for more updates! Read more about all the Boston Post Road (BPR) markers on our Facebook page!
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
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When the Jay Heritage Center acquired the Jay mansion, its copper roof had been stolen, open windows and doors had invited vandalism, theft and water damage to wreak havoc on the interiors. The wooden columns were rotting from the inside and had to be taken apart in pieces to restore.
Today the house has a state of the art security and fire suppression system along with a geothermal heating and cooling system tied in to an automated logic system that tracks energy usage and temperature flunctuations inside and outside the house.
See the house today:
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(JHC Archives)
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
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Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009
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This photo of the Jay family home in Rye is circa 1870 -1886 at which time the house was occupied by John Jay's grandson, John Clarkson Jay. The historic portraits of JC Jay's grandfather and father inherited by him are seen here hanging in the Jay Drawing Room. Today the originals can be seen at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery and NYU Hospital respectively--reproductions hang in their place at the Jay House.
It is fascinating to see these iconic artworks in an original setting. The portrait of Founding Father John Jay on the left is by Gilbert Stuart and instantly recognizable by historians; it is an oil on canvas, started in 1784 after Jay's successful negotiaton of the 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War. The portrait was not actually completed until 1818 (Stuart was assisted by John Trumbull). The portrait of Peter Augustus Jay on the right is by Asher Durand.
Of special interest is the pier glass (mirror) in the center of the wall; it was still in the house through the 1980s while the house served as a conference center for the Methodist church and it may still be intact but its whereabouts are unknown.
***In an exciting development this December 2010, the painting on the far left hand side of the photo has been donated to the Jay Heritage Center by a direct Jay descendant. It is a painting of John Jay's great granddaughter. Alice Jay. A public unveiling and installation of this original artwork took place in May 2011
(JHC Archives)
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[O]ne of America's intrinsic sacred sites --'specially special,' if you like -- because a great family's great house and its great and sweeping surrounding landscape have, almost miraculously, both survived intact and are now a permanent part of the America the next centuries of Americans will build." Tony Hiss, Author, Experience of Place.
Jay Heritage Center
210 Boston Post Road
Rye, NY 10580
(914) 698-9275
Email: jayheritagecenter@gmail.com
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Rye, NY 10580
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
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Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009
On NY State's Path Through History (2013)
Peter Augustus Jay (January 24, 1776 - February 22, 1843) was the eldest son of Founding Father, John Jay(Photo - JHC Archives - Painting by John Wesley Jarvis)
Peter was one of 6 children born to John Jay and Sarah Livingston Jay, and one of 2 boys (younger brother William was born in 1789) with 4 sisters: Susan (born and died in 1780); Maria (b. 1782), Ann (b. 1783) and Sarah Louisa (b. 1792).
Biography
Peter Augustus Jay was born at "Liberty Hall," in 1776, at the home of his grandparents', the Livingstons, in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Like his father, he graduated from King's College, the precursor of Columbia University. Notably following his graduation in 1794, Peter Augustus acted as private secretary to his father in London for the Jay Treaty. The young Jay studied law and established a practice in New York City with his cousin Peter Jay Munro, carrying on a family tradition of public service. His involvement in historic events also included his role in bringing the Louisian Purchase treaty back to the states from France at the request of Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe on August 18,1803.
Peter Augustus Jay married Mary Rutherfurd Clarkson, daughter of General Matthew Clarkson, in 1807 and they had 8 children.
From 1812 - 1817, Peter Augustus Jay helped found the Bank for Savings (thereby contributing to the establishment of the New York State savings bank system). He served as a trustee from 1819 - 1838 and as its Vice President from 1828- 1838. His leadership roles included his position as a New York State Assemblyman in 1816 during which time he was active in arranging the financing for the Erie Canal. He helped found the New York Law Institute in 1828, which today is the oldest law library in New York City. Jay was made a Governor of New York Hospital (1809) and also served as its President (1827-1833); likewise he was a trustee of Columbia College from 1812- 1817 before becoming Chairman of the Board of Trustees, King's College; he was President of the New York Historical Society (1840-1842). For a time he was also a Westchester County Judge.
Peter Augustus Jay and Manumission
Jay shared his father's commitment to social justice and actively pursued greater rights for African Americans. In his commitment to reform, he served as President of the New York Manumission Society in 1816 and President of the New York Public School Society which was anti-slavery and concerned with greater humanitarianism towards the poor. Jay is best known for giving a speech in 1821 at the New York State Constitutional Convention as a delegate arguing that the right to vote should be extended to free African Americans. Despite his impassioned argument, Jay's motion for extending suffrage was overruled.
1838 Peter Augustus Jay House
Peter Augustus legally received the Jay Property in Rye from his father in 1822 though original account records show that he and his wife Mary were handling household expenses as for the Rye estate as early as 1814. Under his father's aegis, Peter Augustus installed European styled stone ha-has on the property and planted elm trees. His father John Jay died in 1829. On November 17th, 1836, Peter Augustus contracted with a builder, Edwin Bishop, to take down the failing farmhouse that had been barraged by the British during the Revolutionary War. The cost to build a new home was $14,500 and the completion date was to be April 1, 1838. Reusing structural elements from "The Locusts" where his father grew up as a boy, Peter Augustus Jay helped create the Greek Revival mansion that stands there today. Unfortunately his wife Mary would not live to see the house completed, as she died in Madeira on December 24, 1838. Peter Augustus Jay died in 1843 and the Rye house passed to his son, John Clarkson Jay.
The 1838 Peter Augustus Jay House is a National Historic Landmark as well as a Save America's Treasures Project; NHL designation is the highest recognition conferred by the US government for a historic site—out of more than 80,000 places on the National Register, only about 2,430 are NHLs. The Jay mansion is currently being preserved and restored by the non-profit organization, the Jay Heritage Center, for use as an educational center with programs in American History. In November 2008, it became the first NHL structure in Westchester County and the oldest NHL in New York State to be fitted with a geothermal heating and cooling system.
Peter Augustus Jay and John Jay's leadership roles in the abolition of slavery are regularly examined in a program at the Jay Heritage Center called "Striving for Freedom." It is because of this legacy of social justice that the Jay site was added to the Westchester County African American Heritage Trail in 2004.
Jay Heritage Center
210 Boston Post Road
Rye, NY 10580
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
Member of the African American Heritage Trail of Westchester County since 2004
Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009
On NY State's Path Through History (2013)
"This is one of some 230 markers erected on the Boston Post Road in 1763.
Their locations were fixed by Benjamin Franklin the Deputy Postmaster General who for that purpose drove a chaise with a distance recorder over the route.
Restored to this its original position June 1st, 1927, by the village of Rye."
"Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set." (Proverbs XXII Verse 28.)
A charming depiction of Ben Franklin traveling the Boston Post Road circa 1763 can be found at the US Department of Transportation's website: www.fhwa.dot.gov/rakeman/1763.htm
But is it the milestone above an original or a replacement? It is made of fragile sandstone and similar stones in the Westchester area have been dated to the early 1800s which raises questions about the claims made on the plaque. There is also a school of thought based on Franklin's own letters and whereabouts that says he may not have supervised placement of any of the stones.
Whatever their actual date, they are still likely to be at least over 200 years old and are valuable historical resources illustrating our American heritage. 2 of these stones can still be seen outdoors in Rye - #24 and #25. Want to find other markers on the Boston Post Road? Go to the Historical Marker database at www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=34587
Today all that remains of the 400 acre Jay estate is the 23 acre Jay Property bounded in front by the length of this stone wall on Boston Post Road from the entrance at 210 all the way to Barlow Lane. It is a historic site and park with 3 owners, the Jay Heritage Center, NY State, and Westchester County; it is open to the public for historical and educational programs.
Of course Franklin and Jay along with Adams would be forever remembered together for their roles in negotiating the Treaty of Paris in 1783 as "The Peace Commissioners."
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[O]ne of America's intrinsic sacred sites --'specially special,' if you like -- because a great family's great house and its great and sweeping surrounding landscape have, almost miraculously, both survived intact and are now a permanent part of the America the next centuries of Americans will build." Tony Hiss, Author, Experience of Place.
Jay Heritage Center
210 Boston Post Road
Rye, NY 10580
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
Member of the African American Heritage Trail of Westchester County since 2004
Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009
On NY State's Path Through History (2013)
The Jay Heritage Center is known for its educational programs including "Striving for Freedom" where students participate in an interactive theater presentation performed by a professional cast followed by a discussion period. Set in 1813, the play examines the lives of two sisters, Clarinda and Mary, both born at the Rye farm, believed to be the children of enslaved parents owned by John Jay's father. The two sisters were separated, with Clarinda sent to Bedford and Mary staying behind in Rye with John Jay's brother Peter; both were later freed and reunited. The program includes tours of the site-orientation exhibit, the 1838 Peter Augustus Jay House, and grounds. Teachers receive pre- and post-visit materials and students examine primary source documents.
Pictured here are the two actresses at the 1907 Van Norden Carriage House recreating the reunion of the sisters. Behind them hangs a reproduction of "The Locusts" the farmhouse in Rye where John Jay grew up as a boy. It is on this site that enslaved people were also emancipated.
Archives show that Caesar, another man enslaved by the Jay family, owned successively by John Jay, then Peter Augustus Jay and Peter Jay, John Jay's brother, was eventually freed on May 28th,1824 but continued in service for the Jays in Rye. Caesar was given a lifetime stipend in Peter Augustus Jay's will in 1843 and lived in Rye with the Jays intil his death in 1847. He was buried on the Jay family's Rye property in a Christian ceremony likely near where his ancestors were buried.
John Jay was the first President of the NY Manumission Society advancing emancipation as early as 1785. His son Peter Augustus Jay also served as President of the NY Manumission Society.
"A respectable number of Citizens having formed themselves into a Society for promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and protecting such of them as have been or may be liberated, the following Extracts from their Proceedings, are published for the information of the Public."
"The benevolent Creator and Father of men, having given to them all an equal right to life, liberty, and property, no Sovereign power on earth can justly deprive them of either; but in conformity to impartial government and laws to which they have expressly or tacitly consented."
"It is our duty, therefore, both as free Citizens and Christians, not only to regard with compassion, the injustice done to those among us who are held as slaves; but to endeavor, by lawful ways and means, to enable them to share equally with us in that civil and religious Liberty, with which an indulgent providence has blessed these states, and to which these our brethren are, by nature, as much entitled to as ourselves." (From the American Mercury, 1785, reporting on an article in the Hudson Gazette, JHC Archives)
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210 Boston Post Road
Rye, NY 10580
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
Member of the African American Heritage Trail of Westchester County since 2004
Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009
On NY State's Path Through History (2013)
Peter Augustus Jay was the eldest son of native Founding Father, John Jay. Peter was one of 6 children born to John Jay and Sarah Livingston Jay, and one of 2 boys (younger brother William was born in 1789) with 4 sisters: Susan (born and died in 1780); Maria (b. 1782), Ann (b. 1783) and Sarah Louisa (b. 1792).
Peter Augustus Jay was born at "Liberty Hall," in 1776, at the home of his grandparents', the Livingstons, in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Like his father, he graduated from King's College, the precursor of Columbia University. Notably following his graduation in 1794, Peter Augustus acted as private secretary to his father in London for the Jay Treaty. The young Jay studied law and established a practice in New York City with his cousin Peter Jay Munro, carrying on a family tradition of public service. He married Mary Rutherfurd Clarkson, daughter of General Matthew Clarkson, in 1807 and they had 8 children.
From 1812 - 1817, Peter Augustus Jay helped found the Bank for Savings (thereby contributing to the establishment of the New York State savings bank system). His leadership roles included his position as a New York State Assemblyman in 1816 during which time he was active in arranging the financing for the Erie Canal. He helped found the New York Law Institute in 1828, which today is the oldest law library in New York City. Jay was President of New York Hospital (1827-1833), Chairman of the Board of Trustees, King's College and President of the New York Historical Society (1840-1842). For a time he was also a Westchester County Judge.
Peter Augustus Jay shared his father's commitment to social justice and actively pursued greater rights for African Americans. In his commitment to reform, he served as President of the New York Manumission Society in 1816 and President of the New York Public School Society which was anti-slavery and concerned with greater humanitarianism towards the poor. Jay is best known for giving a speech in 1821 at the New York State Constitutional Convention as a delegate arguing that the right to vote should be extended to free African Americans. Despite his impassioned argument, Jay's motion for extending suffrage was overruled.
Peter Augustus legally received the Jay Property in Rye from his father in 1822 though original account records show that he and his wife Mary were handling household expenses as for the Rye estate as early as 1813. Under his father's aegis, Peter Augustus installed European styled stone ha-has on the property and planted elm trees. His father John Jay died in 1829. In 1836, Peter Augustus contracted with a builder, Edwin Bishop, to take down the 1745 failing farmhouse that had been barraged by the British during the Revolutionary War. Reusing structural elements from the "Locusts" where his father grew up as a boy, Peter Augustus Jay helped create the Greek Revival mansion that stands there today. Unfortunately his wife Mary would not live to see the house completed, as she died in Madeira on December 24, 1838. Peter Augustus Jay died in 1843 and the Rye house passed to his son, John Clarkson Jay.
Peter Augustus Jay and John Jay's leadership roles in the abolition of slavery are regularly examined in a program at the Jay Heritage Center called "Striving for Freedom." It is because of this legacy of social justice that the Jay site was added to the Westchester County African American Heritage Trail in 2004.
Jay Heritage Center
210 Boston Post Road
Rye, NY 10580
(914) 698-9275
Email: jayheritagecenter@gmail.com
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
Member of the African American Heritage Trail of Westchester County since 2004
Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009
On NY State's Path Through History (2013)
The Boston Post Road or King's Highway, (also known as Route 1) is one of America's first and oldest roads (1683). It was originally an Indian path, and with colonial expansion, it soon became a thoroughfare for post riders, stagecoaches and cattle being driven towards New York City. As Deputy Postmaster, Benjamin Franklin set the locations that measured its length.
In 1800 the Westchester Turnpike Company was incorporated and reconstructed. The road was widened to over 80 feet for the herds of sheep and cattle that were raised in New York and Connecticut and were driven by foot to market in New York City.
Peter Augustus Jay to his father, John Jay, in a letter dated August 21, 1800 remarked at that time:
"...While I was at Rye, I accompanied a Committee of the Turnpike Corporation while they laid out the road from Mamaroneck to Byram."
The Boston Post Road has a rich and vibrant history, most notably in Rye where a portion of the road was deemed of the utmost import due to its association with John Jay as well as the area's architecture; appropriately the thoroughfare and the 5 properties alongside it received our nation's highest historic designation. This stretch of land was named a National Historic Landmark District in 1993 through the efforts of the not-for-profit Jay Coalition.
Today, the road retains its leafy green charm and one can imagine what it was like to travel along this highway during John Jay's lifetime. In Rye, four mile markers made of sandstone believed by some to be set by Franklin (but actually re-set by the Westchester Turnpike Commission) were marked with plaques under the direction of Rye Mayor Morehead and his City Council. Each plaque read:
"This is one of some 230 markers erected on the Boston Post Road in 1763.
Their locations were fixed by Benjamin Franklin the Deputy Postmaster General who for that purpose drove a chaise with a distance recorder over the route. Restored to this its original position June 1st, 1927, by the Village of Rye. 'Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set.' (Proverbs XXII Verse 28.)"
Today only 2 of the original 4 stones remain outside and visible to the public and only 2 have their 1928 plaques.
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Update!!!
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Conservation of Rye's Mile Marker 24 has begun! Stay up to date on our Facebook page!
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We are excited to be working with Amanda Trienens, founder of Cultural Heritage Conservation. She has helped protect and preserve many other early American monuments including the Alexander Hamilton Monument and the Montgomery Monument both located in downtown Manhattan at Trinity Church. Other projects include the Bethesda Terrace, in Central Park; Donald Judd's Untitled Sculpture at The Glass House in New Canaan, CT; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; United States Supreme Court, Washington, DC, TWA Terminal, New York, United Nations, New York. The projects she has worked on have been recognized with awards in excellence from both the Preservation League of New York State and the NY Landmarks Conservancy.
It is also a pleasure to be working with Matthew C. Reiley of Excelsior Art Services. He is also Associate Director of Conservation for the Central Park Conservancy. Matthew is responsible for the care of Central Park’s built environment, which includes a collection of 50+ bronze and stone monuments, historic architecture, fountains, mosaics and other features. Reiley is an Adjunct Faculty Member of the the Graduate School of Architecture Planning Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University and a Professional Associate of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC).
Stay tuned for more updates! Read more about all the Boston Post Road (BPR) markers on our Facebook page!
Jay Heritage Center
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
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This painting of John Jay and his family at "The Locusts" in Rye, NY was painted by American realist Guy Pene du Bois, a student of Robert Henri and friend of William Glackens and Edward Hopper. The artist received this WPA mural commission for the Rye post office in 1937 and titled it "John Jay at His Home." It was completed in 1938. The composition shows John Jay, his wife Sarah and two of their children together with Jay's groom, possibly an enslaved man named Peet.
Rye has been known as the home town of Founding Father John Jay (1745 -1829) for centuries. Jay's family moved to Rye when he was 3 months old following their purchase of a 250 acre estate overlooking Long Island Sound from John Budd. A subsequent purchase increased their homestead to 400 acres and it was here in Westchester, on the Boston Post Road, that one of our nation's greatest patriots grew up. The young Jay returned to Rye throughout his career to celebrate many milestones with family and friends including his own part in negotiating the Treaty of Paris.
Cognizant of Jay's integral role in the shaping of American history and his Rye roots, Congresswoman Caroline O' Day, a close friend of President and Eleanor Roosevelt, suggested during the WPA era that this New York native be the subject of a mural commission by Guy Pene du Bois inside the new Rye Post Office that was being built. O'Day's efforts and the issuance of a special stamp cancellation to commemorate the ribbon cutting and opening of the facility on September 5, 1936 both created a renewed focus on Jay:
"Considerable interest in the life of John Jay has been awakened by the mural on the wall of the Rye Post Office depicting the departure of the famous patriot from the Jay homestead on the Post Road." Rye Chronicle, February 11, 1938.
Du Bois' masterpiece depicting Jay's original farmhouse, "The Locusts" (where he grew up and which he later owned between 1813 and 1822) is still there today in the lobby. The Rye Post Office itself was renamed the "Caroline O' Day" Post Office in 2009 thanks to the cooperative efforts of Congresswoman Nita Lowey and Rye resident and historian, Paul Hicks
To read a terrific article about Caroline O'Day and her role in history:
www.historycooperative.org/journals/nyh/88.3/hicks.html
Today John Jay's home in Rye is a National Historic Landmark, the centerpiece of the Boston Post Road Historic District designated by US Department of the Interior. John Jay's boyhood home was further recognized by the City of Rye as a valuable home treasure--the City of Rye Landmarks Preservation Ordinance designates the Jay Property as a Protected Site, and the Jay House and Carriage House as Protected Structures (Rye Code § 117-5E(2)(a)).
Of literary note is the fact that the "The Locusts" depicted in the mural was an inspiration for the Wharton House in James Fenimore Cooper's novel 'The Spy." In this tale, sparked by a story John Jay himself told Cooper, "The Wharton family" lived at "The Locusts" and their house was situated so "...the fall of the land to the level of the tide water afforded a view of the Sound* over the tops of the distant woods on its margin." Cooper further explained the Sound to readers unfamiliar with its location: " *An island more than forty leagues in length lies opposite the coasts of New York and Connecticut. The arm of the sea which separates it from the main is technically called a sound, and in that part of the country, par excellence, 'The Sound.' This sheet of water varies in breadth from five to thirty miles."
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
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Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009
On NY State's Path Through History (2013)
The Jay Heritage Center's Green Screen is an important part of its "Stewardship through Smart Choices" energy education program. The interactive touch screen in the 1838 Jay Mansion details the sustainable measures undertaken during the restoration and preservation of this National Historic Landmark home and grounds of the Jay family.
Visitors to the site and visitors to an upcoming weblink will be able to see a checklist of thoughtful and responsible steps taken by the JHC and compare them with the LEED system; this is a simple and effective way to demonstrate where historic preservation and this prevalent environmental coding system are compatible or incompatible in real practice.
Through this innovative approach, the JHC hopes to serve as a valuable model and authoritative resource for other institutions, museums, schools, government entities as well as individual homeowners as they plan to incorporate green design features into their own buildings.
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
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Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009
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Stately elm trees planted by Peter Augustus Jay are visible in this photo from the late 1800s as are other garden features added by Jays including the wellhead and an English inspired ha-ha. The AJ Davis building can be seen at far right and the house has a porch on the left side that was later removed. This pristine view remained largely intact during the ownership of the Van Nordens, the Palmers and even the Methodist Church through the end of the 1970s.
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
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Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009
On NY State's Path Through History (2013)
This beautiful aerial view from 1986 shows one of America's greatest treasures, a 10,000 year old meadow that originates on the historic Jay Property in Rye, New York and extends 3/4 of a mile to Long Island Sound. The meadow is believed to be the oldest man managed cultural landscape in New York State. This land along with the neighboring private estate of Lounsbury, the Jay Cemetery (final resting place of American Founding Father, John Jay) and Whitby Castle/Rye Golf Club total 286 acres that were collectively declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993. (added to the NRHP in 1982 as NR #82001275 and designated an NHL in 1993.)
Unfortunately today, the meadow is threatened by a monoculture of invasives; it is quickly vanishing. Intervention is needed to restore it and preserve it for grassland birds and other native species.
(Photo credit- JHC Archives)
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
Member of the African American Heritage Trail of Westchester County since 2004
Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009
On NY State's Path Through History (2013)
The Jay Heritage Center is one of 13 sites on Westchester County's African American Heritage Trail. The Jay Property in Rye is a historic site where slaves are known to have lived and worked in the fields and gardens and where they were also emancipated by the Jay family and buried on the same land as their owners.
Learn more on youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASv83-Iecsk&feature=related
"It is much to be wished that slavery may be abolished. The honour of the States, as well as justice and humanity, in my opinion, loudly call upon them to emancipate these unhappy people. To contend for our own liberty, and to deny that blessing to others, involves an inconsistency not to be excused." John Jay 1786
JHC programs examine the prevalence of slavery in New York and the role of John Jay and his family in abolishing it. It has been estimated that ironically in 1776 as of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, there were over half a million slaves in the United States, throughout all 13 colonies, including 15,000 in New York.
Among its goals, the JHC hopes to be "a national focal point for a continuing conversation about the two greatest pieces of unfinished American business--race and land; meaning how we treat each other and how we treat the rest of God's creation." Tony Hiss
www.westchestergov.com/pdfs/AfricanAmerican_HeritageTrail...
Jay Heritage Center
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
Member of the African American Heritage Trail of Westchester County since 2004
Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009
On NY State's Path Through History (2013)
Sarah Livingston Jay
Sarah Livingston was married to John Jay in 1774 at Liberty Hall, the Livingston home.
She was a warm and vivacious woman and she and Jay had a long and happy marriage that produced 6 children, 5 of whom lived to adulthood. Sarah died at the age of 45 on May 28, 1802, before the completion of the Jay home in Bedford so sadly, she never really had a chance to live there.
The Jay Heritage Center has begun the task of transcribing some of Sarah's original letters that reveal the affectionate bonds between Sarah and her family and friends as well as shedding light on her time at the Rye estate where she did spend time and is buried:
(To John Watkins, Jr. her brother-in-law. In 1780 Watkins married Judith Livingston, the fifth daughter of William Livingston, the War Governor of New Jersey)
To Mr. John Watkins, Paramus
St. Iledefonso
"15th Sept. 1781
I've had the good fortune to receive three very obliging letters from you & can assure you that they afforded me very sincere pleasure, the last particularly which informed me of the birth of my little nephew & the promising state of sister's health. Tell Judy tho' I thank her for her affectionate letter, I could not forbear smiling at her over-rating those trifles which she favor'd me by her acceptance of & which requir'd an apology rather than merited thanks. I wd do myself the pleasure of anwering her letter at present, but the idea of Mr. Jay's intended departure for France so entirely occupies my mind that it has absolutely banish'd every other idea & render'd me even more stupid than common: the badness of the roads, wretched accomodations & the uncertainty in what season Mr. Jay will return prevents me from accompanying him. The attention you discover in mentioning the situation of my friend is very grateful to me & indeed the whole style of your letters is so agreeable that I must request you will continue yr correspondence & in naming my friends include your own family in whose welfare I shall ever think myself interested; please to present me to these in the most friendly manner. Remember me affectionately to Judy & embrace the little stranger with whom I long to be better acquainted - Believe me to be very sincerely Yours, Sarah Jay"
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To Peter Augustus Jay, New York
"Albany May 20th, 1799
My dear Peter,
Yours of the 12th I rec'd the the day before your papa left home, but as he means to visit Bedford & Rye before N York I thought a line by the Post wd reach you sooner than if he was the bearer of it - your Papa set out on fryday afternoon expecting to reach Kinderhook that evening , but it began to rain soon after he crossed the ferry. I don't therefore think he went more than five miles - The danger Aunt Livingston was in made me shudder as I read your account of it - I sincerely rejoice that she and the rest of the passengers were rescued -
The pleasure that Maria & our friends at Rye will receive from her visit will I am sure be mutual - I propose to myself a similar gratification of nothing of a domestic nature shd intervene to prevent your sister & myself from paying you & them a visit....."
[O]ne of America's intrinsic sacred sites --'specially special,' if you like -- because a great family's great house and its great and sweeping surrounding landscape have, almost miraculously, both survived intact and are now a permanent part of the America the next centuries of Americans will build." Tony Hiss, Author, Experience of Place.
Jay Heritage Center
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
Member of the African American Heritage Trail of Westchester County since 2004
Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009
On NY State's Path Through History (2013)
Like a cathedral!
This indoor tennis court may be one of the oldest in the United States. It is a wood clapboard structure 60 feet wide by 120 feet long with massive 3ft thick and 10ft high foundation walls. A magnificent steel truss system supports the roof and is punctuated by 3 skylights over a clay court. A nearby stone wall has the date "1907" carved into it and early survey plans by Brinley & Holbrook in 1917 clearly identify it as a "tennis house."
It predates the Raquet and Tennis Club in New York City, built in 1918 and JP Morgan's 1929 indoor tennis building on Jekyl Island which shares similar design elements. The Jay Heritage Center is exploring the possibility of restoring this as a functioning indoor tennis court for community use in Westchester. The USTA headquarters in Westchester may prove a terrific resource for faciliating preservation and restoration.
Mysteries about this building:
There is only one door and early maps show the existence of a barn in this area. A close look at the stone base reveals several types of masonry. Was a Jay family barn converted to a tennis house? Is this an early example of adaptive reuse?
The Jay Property is the centerpiece of the National Historic Landmark Boston Post Road District (added to the NRHP in 1982 as NR #82001275 and designated an NHL in 1993.)
Learn more about this building and the history of the site at:
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
Member of the African American Heritage Trail of Westchester County since 2004
Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009
On NY State's Path Through History (2013)
No less than 62 historic and environmental groups banded to gether for a 13+ year battle to save the 23 acre Jay Property from commercial development. Supreme Court Justices, Jay descendants and congressmen all united to save the childhood home of Founding father John Jay in Rye. This archived photos shows Congressman Joe DioGuardi with members of the Jay Coalition including Kitty Aresty, Catherine Clark, Catherine Crean, Rhoda Kornreich, Sharon Du Bois, Eva Stern, and Helen "Dee Dee" Paschal. In 1986, Representatives Joseph J. DioGuardi, of New Rochelle, and Hamilton Fish Jr., Millbrook, sponsored a bill to preserve the Jay Property bordering Long Island Sound and the City of Rye.
The bill had hoped to provide for a transfer of the 22.4-acre site to the National Park Service and establish the John Jay National Historic Site in Rye ''to preserve and interpret for the inspiration and benefit of present and future generations the childhood home of John Jay,'' the nation's first Chief Justice.
Long before America knew his daughter Kara DioGuardi for American Idol, the Jay Coalition knew Joe for his commitment to American History. (JHC Archives)
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
Member of the African American Heritage Trail of Westchester County since 2004
Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009
On NY State's Path Through History (2013)
Fragments of this original plaster ceiling medallion were found behind the library wall and the design was instantly recognizably from Minard Lafever's "Beauties of Modern Architecture." To see the medallion restored by master plasterer, David Flaharty:
www.flickr.com/photos/jayheritagecenter/3816468168/
Jay Heritage Center
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
Member of the African American Heritage Trail of Westchester County since 2004
Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009
On NY State's Path Through History (2013)
In the late 1980s Justice Harry A. Blackmun delivered a lecture on behalf of The Jay Coalition, the Rye Historical Society and We the People...Rye, to support them in their struggle to save John Jay's home and to honor the bicentennial anniversary of the publication of The Federalist Papers. He recalled his previous visit to the Jay Estate.
"I was impressed with the house, with the lawn, with the great trees, some of which are now gone, and with the vista down to Long Island Sound. It was a place that struck me then as symbolic of what was impressive about certain aspects of the latter part of the eighteenth century - gracious living and status, to be sure, but coupled with a sense of responsibility, particularly to government and to the art of getting along together.
It must be a matter of great pride to be members of an old and distinguished family that contributed so much to early America, that believes in education and leadership then and now, that has sensed the merits, almost the sacredness, of family ties and of what is expected of its members in each generation. I am certain that all of us who are here today join in saluting the Jay family for its significant contributions that meant so much
when this Nation that we all love was in its precarious infancy. I salute, too, the Jay Coalition which, I understand, is an organization of several civic preservation and conservation groups. How refreshing it is that there is widespread interest in endeavors of this kind....
....I also remember vividly, when I was here on that one occasion before, Dr. John Jay DuBois' courtesy in taking me to the Jay Family Cemetery, just a short way from here. It is a very private place. I was deeply impressed with what was written on the stone
marking the grave of the first Chief Justice. Let me repeat the epitaph slowly:
In memory of John Jay
Eminent among those who asserted the liberty and established
the independence of his country which he long served in
the most important offices, legislative, executive, judicial, and
diplomatic, and distinguished in them all by his ability, firmness,
patriotism and integrity.....
That epitaph was written by his son, Peter Augustus Jay. It says much in few words. John Jay served in every branch of government and was distinguished in them all.
We salute John Jay and we revere his memory. We pay tribute to him as a diplomat. We pay tribute to him as the first Chief Justice of the United States. We pay tribute to him as active in legislative affairs. We pay tribute to him as a governor of the State of New York. We pay tribute to him as a man, to his ability, to his foresight, to his contributions, to his patriotism (no longer an unpopular word to be avoided), and to his integrity of character and example. We are grateful for John Jay's having been a part of our national heritage. He was a rock to which the Nation could cling at a time when it might have drifted apart and become helpless just when rich promise lay ahead. "
-- Harry A. Blackmun
[John Jay is buried in Rye in the private cemetery he established for himself and his descendants in 1807 for perpetuity. Jay's ancestors including Eva van Cortlandt and Anna Maricka Bayard Jay, were originally buried in the Auguste Jay vault in the Stuyvesant orchard in the "Bouwerie" which later became part of St. Marks Church. Their remains and the remains of other Stuyvesants in the Jay line were removed by John Jay to Rye in 1807 and reinterred there. This area is closed to the public at all times.]
[O]ne of America's intrinsic sacred sites --'specially special,' if you like -- because a great family's great house and its great and sweeping surrounding landscape have, almost miraculously, both survived intact and are now a permanent part of the America the next centuries of Americans will build." Tony Hiss, Author, Experience of Place.
Jay Heritage Center
210 Boston Post Road
Rye, NY 10580
(914) 698-9275
Email: jayheritagecenter@gmail.com
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A National Historic Landmark since 1993
Member of the African American Heritage Trail of Westchester County since 2004
Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009
On NY State's Path Through History (2013)