#untermyer

[kalliphotography]

#photographers on tumblr #nature photography #flower photography #flowers #purple flowers #untermyer gardens #new york #upstateny #Botanical Garden

[spaceintruderdetector]

Ritualistic Sacrifice,the Son of Sam and Untermyer park

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ritualistic-sacrifice-and-the-son-of-sam-satan-worshiping-in-america-s-greatest-forgotten-garden

Hidden away behind a great stone wall in suburban Yonkers, New York, sits a long-forgotten gardener’s masterpiece. Statues of sphinxes peek at passersby from just beyond the wall, hinting at the decaying grandeur that awaits inside Untermyer Park. 2,000-year-old imported Roman columns tower dramatically from a scenic clearing, heralding the end of a stone staircase which seems to descend infinitely; crumbling tiles line the bottom of what must have once been an incredibly elaborate mosaic pool.  

After decades of neglect, the early glory years of Untermyer Park are still apparent in the impressive ruins that remain, along with traces of a darker and far more sinister era that came to follow. Satanic scribblings and ominous graffiti appear on columns, towers, and decrepit walls; cryptic markings alluding to a traumatic time in New York City’s history.

#untermyer park #yonkers #new york

[taevisionceo]

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Data 384 - Dec 22, 2022

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[outskirts-of-life]

#im alive #from last year #me #face #tbt #son of sam #untermyer park #david berkowitz #my face #hail satan

[koffiphotography]

“olympus”

#wedding photography #new york wedding photographer #brooklyn wedding photographer #untermyer garden #editorial wedding #nyc bride #brooklyn bride

[metmuseum]

Child's high chair. ca. 1660. Credit line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/203703

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[blueiskewl]

Thomas Potter A George I burr walnut-veneered and walnut adjustable writing table, circa 1720-30

The quarter veneered hinged and folding top inset with a later gilt-tooled leather writing surface, with ratchet mechanism to underside, above a single drawer to each side, one fitted with compartments for inkwells and pens, the drawers retaining the Untermyer collection inventory number 64.101.1084 74.5cm. high, 38cm. wide, 48cm. deep (closed); 2ft. 5½in. 1ft. 3in., 1ft. 7in.

#Thomas Potter #Thomas Potter A George I writing table 1720-30 #english furniture maker #furniture #writing table #art #artist #art work #art world #art news

[nicolae]

Lemnul, incrustarea și lacul în artă (1)

Sculpturile, obiectele și componentele arhitecturale din lemn au fost, de asemenea, modelate în funcție de valoarea lor monetară și culturală. Unele soiuri de lemn sunt mai rare, altele au calități care le fac mai ușor de lucrat în anumite tipuri de procese, și au existat valuri de „modă” în alegerea lemnului în multe epoci. De exemplu, lemnul de tei și lemnul de lămâi sunt asociate cu Evul Mediu, mahonul cu Anglia și Scoția din secolul al XVIII-lea, stejarul cu lucrările de artă și meșteșuguri de la mijlocul secolului al XIX-lea până la începutul secolului XX, și bunurile din lemn delicat lăcuite cu China dinastiei Yuan. Figura 3.24 |Tronul înțelepciunii. Credit: Okapi07/Wikimedia Commons, Licență: CC BY-SA 3.0 Sculptura în lemn a fost o formă de artă mult mai predominantă decât pictura în nordul Europei în perioada romanică (c. 1000-1200) și gotică (c. 1200-1500) în acea regiune. Materialul preferat a fost lemnul de tei sau lemnul de lămâi datorită fineței fibrei lemnului, care a permis sculptorului să sculpteze detalii complicate. În general, sculptura a fost apoi policromată sau pictată, pentru a crește calitatea reală a figurii. Sugerarea că scânteia de viață a fost importantă în lucrări precum Tronul înțelepciunii, deoarece Maria, plină de compasiune și milă Mamă a lui Dumnezeu și Regina Cerului, se credea că are puterea de a mijloci la Fiul ei, pruncul Hristos, în numele credincioșilor. (Figura 3.24) Figura 3.25 | Masă din China. Credit: Irwin Untermyer/Muzeul Met/Wikimedia Commons, Licență: CC0 1.0 Mahonul a fost descoperit ca un lemn comercializabil de către exploratorii și comercianții europeni din insulele Caraibe, America Centrală și America de Sud până în secolul XVII. Lemnul natural brun-roșcat a fost apreciat pentru frumusețea și rezistența sa și, de-a lungul anilor 1700, a fost folosit frecvent în Anglia și Scoția pentru a crea mobilier fin pentru piața de acolo, și în coloniile americane. O astfel de masă era un simbol de statut care indica bogăția și gustul proprietarului, care a fost îmbunătățit și mai mult prin utilizarea sa: aceasta nu era o piesă utilitară, ci o masă de expunere pentru articole din porțelan. (Figura 3.25) Sursa: Sachant, Pamela; Blood, Peggy; LeMieux, Jeffery; and Tekippe, Rita, "Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning" (2016). Fine Arts Open Textbooks. 3. https://oer.galileo.usg.edu/arts-textbooks/3, licența CC BY-SA 4.0. Traducere și adaptare Nicolae Sfetcu Read the full article

[jedivoodoochile]

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another.

- John Lennon.

Photo taken at Untermyer Park Yonkers, NY, 1975 by Bob Gruen.

#john lennon

[letitpassby]

Untermyer Gardens Holiday Lights

[kalliphotography]

#photographers on tumblr #nature photography #sunflowers #untermyer gardens #new york #flower photography #man vs nature #Botanical Garden #upstateny

[cathikesny]

LENOIR PRESERVE

Sometimes its really fun for me to introduce my boyfriend, Rob, who grew up in the area, to places in Westchester that he didn’t know existed previously. Lenoir Preserve is one of those places and I DO think passing by it in the car and saying “what was that?”, him shrugging and me saying “let’s check it out” absolutely counts. 

💰 : FREE

⏰ : open dawn to dusk, 365 days a year

🌎 : 19 Dudley St, Yonkers, Westchester

♿️ : ADA accessible and handicap specific spots

🏃‍♀️: please see link in bio for trail recommendations and intensities

🐶: service animals only, no pets

🚗 : parking lot on North Broadway by the mansion, parking lot on Dudley Street (off N. Broadway), by the Nature Center

📸 : moderate Instagramability, depending on your willingness to “break rules”

📍: Weckquaesgeek, Wappinger, Lenni Lenape ancestral home

The most recent time I came here with Rob, after I had decided to make this account, I looked at him as we were walking through the park and said “I don’t know how to sell this place when Untermyer is right down the road.” 

I still don’t really know how to sell it if you’re comparing it to Untermyer. Like, how do I convince someone who’s driving to the area to go here instead of Untermyer? The only mind-blowingly unique part about Lenoir Preserve is that Rob and I have seen a bald eagle there twice now. 

Lenoir Preserve has a few dedicated paths, one of which is very easy and nicely paved, one mansion that’s on the property (and under restoration currently) and a second mansion (that’s under restoration) with beautiful and dilapidated gardens that’s not.. quite… ON…. The property…., (more about that to come next) and is a really spectacular place to see some great birds, year round. Lenoir also has a dedicated butterfly garden, but that’s only really worth the visit in the summer months. As a park that has access to the Old Croton Aqueduct, it obviously also has fantastic views of the Hudson River and the Palisades across the way. 

BUT, it has none of the grandeur or maintained, manicured gardens of Untermyer. 

The sell for Lenoir Preserve, that I’ve been able to come up with is the following:

Untermyer draws a lot of tourists and a lot of people taking professional photos and a lot of people taking pictures for their Instagrams, and Lenoir is not like that and sometimes that is SO REFRESHING. 

Lenoir has really nice and well-maintained trails, that run the gamut of intensity from beginner to moderate

At least one bald eagle most definitely lives there, and I’m sorry, you don’t get how cool they are until you see them in person.

The bird feeders. We all know I’m a boring old person who loves me some birds but that’s a draw for me and if it’s not for you too, I don’t care. Let me love my birds, okay?

Lenoir Preserve is insanely steeped in history but really it’s the nature that makes this park so awesome. Every park is special because nature should be cherished and preserved every chance we can get. Lenoir wouldn’t be so spectacular if you weren’t able to “smresspass” onto the Alder Manor garden ruins, or if there weren’t freaking bald eagles and what feels like millions of woodpeckers, or it’s peacefulness compared to Untermyer, or its access to the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail, HOWEVER, Lenoir HAS all of those things, so it is 100000% as worth your time as its better known sibling down the road from it. 

HISTORY:

Lenoir, as a piece of land, has an interesting history dating back to before the colonization of North America. The land was most likely originally home to the Weckquaesgeek, who were a part of the larger Wappinger tribe who generally lived in the Yonkers area. The informational plaques at Lenoir Preserve indicate that the land was originally inhabited by the Lenni Lenape tribe (translates to “true people”) and they called the area “Keskeskick”, which isn’t necessarily wrong as the Lenni Lenape is a broad name for any native who lived between essentially the Hudson Valley down to the area around modern-day Philadelphia.

I don’t know the exact details, I’m sure they involved trickery, violence or misunderstandings, so I’ll put it in the nice way of saying, the Lenni Lenape were “pushed” out of the area in the 1600s and eventually a man named Frederick Philipse III, whose family had acquired the land two generations prior, then owned the property of what is now known as Lenoir Preserve. 

Frederick Philipse III was a loyalist and in 1776, he signed the “Declaration of Dependence”, pledging his loyalty to the King of England. And, I imagine if you have stumbled upon my blog and are from the New York area or even just have even a rudimentary knowledge of U.S. colonial history, you would understand that 1776 is when everyone was like, “fuck the King and fuck England.”….. 

So, I think you can probably guess how things went for Mr. Philipse III since we, inhabitants of the future, know who won the American Revolutionary War… 

As happened to many Loyalists in the Westchester area, Frederick Philipse III had his land and home stripped from him and it was sold off to two different families. In theory, according to the Lenoir historians, you can still see some of the ruins of the earliest stone homes built by the Philipse family and by the people who gained his property after him. I’ll admit though, I haven’t found those ruins yet as far as I’m aware.

Let me know if you do.

The mansion that sits on the property of Lenoir Preserve has been around since at least 1836, or at least that’s the first time it appears on any written record. It changed hands many times until Caleb C. Dula, a native of Lenoir, North Carolina, who amassed his wealth in the cigarette industry, bought the property in 1906. He named the mansion and property “Lenoir” after his hometown. 

In 1939, the Lenoir property was inherited by Mr. Dula’s niece, Mrs. Purl Wightman, who renamed the mansion after her husband’s surname but allowed the property as a whole to retain its Lenoir identity. As goes everything in New York, it seems, real estate developers caught wind of an eventually empty estate and attempted to demolish the history and create apartments or a country club.

Thankfully, the city of Yonkers and Westchester County decided to intervene and bought the property instead, allowing it to be turned into a nature refuge and museum. The interiors of the mansion have also since been used as the setting for TV shows like The Knick and The Following. 

TRAIL RECOMMENDATIONS:

My preferred trek (very beginner intensity): I advise parking in the lot located off Dudley Street. From there look for the trailhead sign for the Copper Beech Trail (0.2mi) straight from the parking lot (if you hit the Nature Center, you’ve missed the trailhead, turn around, it should be on your right if your back is facing the Nature Center). Take the Copper Beech Trail to the Meadow Loop paved path, which does in fact loop all the way back to the Dudley Street parking lot. 

IF you are feeling a little dangerous, perhaps you might partake in some light adventuring (AKA a word that rhymes with smresspassing… I deny EVERYTHING!) into/over/around/through the brick wall that denotes the property line between Lenoir Preserve and the old Alder Manor estate property. 

There ARE cameras so “smresspass” with caution… I feel like as long as you don’t vandalize anything, who cares if you take a little peek… right???? 

No? 

Okay, well anyway…. 

Don’t forget to keep your eyes to the skies throughout your stroll, as this preserve is very well known to be frequented by red-tailed hawks and AT LEAST one bald eagle, and also like a million woodpeckers.

An important stop for Rob and I, or really just me, before we head back to the car is the bird feeders outside of the Nature Center, which is where Rob and I first spotted the bald eagle actually. He wasn’t eating bird seed… but we were sitting there and he flew over, and Rob saw him first, which I think he would want me to mention. 

MEADOW LOOP TRAIL: The Meadow Loop Trail is easily accessible from both parking lots and is paved in its entirety making it beginner and ADA friendly. 

WOODLAND TRAIL (0.4 mi): it’s a quarter of a mile, Cat, how bad could it be? Like I’ve said before, Rob and I are what you’d call “lazy active” people and this trail is STEEP… like REALLY REALLY STEEP. I was huffing and puffing and my old lady knees were HURTING by the time we got back up to the top. HOWEVER, if you’d like to partake in some of the Old Croton Aqueduct Trail or even walk down to Untermyer, that can be achieved by taking the Woodland Trail and going south (left, if you’re looking at the Hudson). 

COPPER BEECH TRAIL (0.2mi): a wooded walk with very mediocre “elevation gain”. Also the place I suspect the eagle has his nest. 

Lenoir does not necessarily make my "Run, Don't Walk" list. But that doesn't mean I don't love it and think it's worth a check out.

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Data 384 - Jul 11, 2023

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[yararealty]

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[metmuseum]

Pilgrim bottle. ca. 1650. Credit line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/203276

#aesthetic #art #abstract art #art museum #art history #The Metropolitan Museum of Art #museum #museum photography #museum aesthetic #dark academia

[ricmdesign]

Last nigh my friend and Uber talented photographer Firooz Zahedi was honored at @untermyergardens a Persian garden everyone needs to see. The celebration was constantly acknowledging the courage of women in Iran at present as they are the one’s who need end celebrated. Non the less it was a beautiful evening with a wonderful introduction by Adam Weinberg who mentioned that Firooz’ wife Beth is our current day Mrs Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney… which I could not agree more. So many friends and meaningful people in @fizphoto life! Congratulations Firooz. #littlerickyrecommends #richardmishaandesign @fizphoto @roozmom @thewhitneymuseum @grajales_cristina_ @bobcolacello @feeroo2 @marthastewart48 @micheleokadoner @whowhatwhit @marckarimzadeh @contessaek (at Untermyer Gardens) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjQP8oGAYomIYUOkE0pexVL5tTIc-fZ_bFn1IY0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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