Photography by Eugene Dauner and Robert Haines
THE LEGACY
In a show of faith in the redevelopment plan, Kingston located its new city hall and fire station in Rondout. However, the shopping mall, new industries and housing developers that the city had counted failed to materialize For years afterwards, the place where the city had remained a desolate wasteland. The building that had escaped the bulldozers, located on the west side of Broadway and East Strand, were boarded up and abandoned. Gradually the property was bought up by local investers, artists and pioneer business owners, who purchased the structures for a song and eventually re-stored them. In the end, it was this grassroots effort that brought Rondout back, planting the seeds for a renaissance that is still unfolding.
Kingston New York. Display by John Matthews, Rondout - 1888
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