Portal:Hudson Valley/Did you know/48

• ... that the unusual batten-plank structural system of frame houses in the Trapps Mountain Hamlet (remaining cellar pictured) on New York's Shawangunk Ridge suggests Lenape architectural influence?
• ... that as New York's General Counsel, Michael C. Finnegan ended a century-old debate over New York City's water supply when he brokered the New York City Watershed Agreement?
• ... that I. M. Pei's IBM Somers Office Complex has been described as a "futuristic fortress" as a result of its unique modernist architecture?