Hudson Valley Ruins: Bricks and Brick Ruins of the Hudson Valley

Hudson Valley Ruins: Bricks and Brick Ruins of the Hudson Valley: A lecture by Thomas Rinaldi and Robert Yasinsac
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The Hudson Valley was once one of the great brick making centers of the world, with scores of brickyards on both sides of the Hudson River. Countless mansions, houses, schools, and factory buildings were built from Hudson River bricks, whose legacy can also be found in piles of reject bricks found along the shoreline today. Many of these bricks were molded with the name of the brickyard owner or company. As part of Thomas Rinaldi and Robert Yasinsac’s 2016-17 exhibit at the New York State Museum a display was produced of “40 Hudson River Bricks” that identify a some of these brickyards. That display was also shown at Arts Westchester’s “Brick By Brick: The Erie Canal & the Building Boom” exhibition in White Plains in 2018-19. In this adaptation of their Hudson Valley Ruins presentation, Rinaldi and Yasinsac will highlight brickyard ruins as well as notable ruins constructed from local bricks.

Thomas Rinaldi grew up in the Hudson River Valley near Poughkeepsie, New York. He is the co-author of the book Hudson Valley Ruins: Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape, published by the University Press of New England in 2006, and the author of New York Neon, published by W.W. Norton in 2012. His photographs have been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, the New York Observer, Westchester Magazine, CNN Online, and elsewhere, and have been exhibited at the Municipal Art Society of New York and the New York State Museum in Albany. Rinaldi currently works as an architectural designer in New York City.

Robert Yasinsac has been documenting historic and distinctive architecture in the Hudson Valley since 1994. His photographs have appeared in the New York Times, The Journal News, Preservation Magazine, TOKION Magazine, and other publications. Rob’s first book, Briarcliff Lodge, was published in 2004 by Arcadia as part of its “Images of America” series. Hudson Valley Ruins: Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape, co-authored with Thomas Rinaldi, was published in September 2006 by the University Press of New England. The Municipal Art Society hosted an exhibit of their photographs in conjunction with the book release. In 2016-17 the New York State Museum hosted “Hudson Valley Ruins”, a photography and architecture exhibition by Rinaldi and Yasinsac. He is a life-long resident of Westchester County.