Portal:Hudson Valley/Did you know/39

• ... that the farmhouse (pictured) at Lynfeld in Washington, New York, is built in a rough "C" shape, an unusual configuration for an Italianate-style building?
• ... that Sloat's Dam is the only remaining intact dam on the Rockland County stretch of the Ramapo River?
• ... that the first steeple of the Old Dutch Church in Kingston, New York, collapsed a year after it was built because slate roofing was substituted for the tin in Minard Lafever's design?