Saving the Shawangunks cement and bluestone built the

cement and bluestone built the grandest house on the street and one of the largest mansions in the Hudson Valley

The naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) achieved unparalleled fame in his own time

and the moon belongs there too

John Stark quietly returned to his farm and lumber mill

and furniture—were designed by Joseph Burr Tiffany

Saving the Shawangunks cement and bluestone built theAuthor: Carleton Mabee Photographs by: Nora Scarlett The successful grassroots fight to stop the construction of a 400 room hotel conference center and 500 condominiums around Lake Minnewaska in New York State s Shawangunk Mountains in the 1980s was a landmark victory for Hudson Valley environmentalists and became a blueprint for subsequent struggles to preserve open space against encroaching development in a uniquely beautiful landscape that The