{"id":78,"date":"2016-10-11T00:34:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T04:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/historicenvironments\/?p=78"},"modified":"2016-10-11T00:34:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T04:34:49","slug":"dennings-point-man-vs-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/historicenvironments\/2016\/10\/11\/dennings-point-man-vs-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennings Point: Man vs Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just two miles from the charming town of Beacon, NY, lies an abandoned, decrepit warehouse. Shattered glass, rotten wood, and rusted metal live with with the vines and creepers sneaking in through broken windows. Graffiti coated walls rest among a backdrop of dense woods. Remnants of industrial America blend in, seamlessly, with nature\u2019s aggressive expansion.<\/p>\n

\"Wilderness

Wilderness slowly swallows the old brick works<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Dennings Point is the site of a 19th<\/sup> century brick factory, cozily nestled in a gorgeous New York forest on the banks of the Hudson River. The factory served not only as a key manufacturing establishment in the Hudson Valley, but also as an important landmark. Supplying bricks for buildings all over the country \u2013 namely the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center \u2013 earned Dennings Point Brick Works its reputation nationwide.<\/p>\n

Dennings Point, throughout the years, has written itself in some of the most famous American stories. Said to have been occupied since 4000 BC, it supposedly saw George Washington cross from it to the other side of the Hudson during the Revolutionary War. Whispers claim that Alexander Hamilton, the renowned American statesman and founding father, drafted the beginnings of the famous Federalist Papers here.<\/p>\n

\"Spray

Spray painted walls complement the fiery orange leaves<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

After the factory was shut down during World War II, the site was used as a base for Durisol, a concrete making company, and a manufacturer\u00a0that produced paper clips. Today, it is home to the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, a beautiful building dedicated to water research and ecological conservation.<\/p>\n

\"A

A 19th century brick manufactured at the site is built into the footpath around the Beacon Institute<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Dennings Point will leave you in awe \u2013 at the impudence of Man, destroying nature and putting our stamp on the world, and at the power of Nature, who has managed to slowly, broodingly, take back what rightfully belongs to her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just two miles from the charming town of Beacon, NY, lies an abandoned, decrepit warehouse. Shattered glass, rotten wood, and rusted metal live with with the vines and creepers sneaking in through broken windows. Graffiti coated walls rest among a backdrop of dense woods. Remnants of industrial America blend in, seamlessly, with nature\u2019s aggressive expansion. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/historicenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/historicenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/historicenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/historicenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/historicenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/historicenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/historicenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/historicenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/historicenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/historicenvironments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}