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Left: Bobby & Freddy Schueler at Gray Crag with their mother Dulcy. August 1920.
Right: Lindsey Foschini, historical interpreter for Palisades Interstate Park, at Gray Crag. March 2009.
Gray Crag photo album Page 1
Palisades Interstate Park Commission - 2009
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Top: Wilma Lois Roberts at Gray Crag with Freddy and Bobby Schueler. August 1920.
Right: Lindsey Foschini and Eric Nelsen at Gray Crag. March 2009.
Gray Crag photo album Page 2
Palisades Interstate Park Commission - 2009
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Clockwise from top: Eric Nelsen by former Gray Crag entrance pillars off US Route 9W in Alpine; base of one of the pillars (with discarded LPs on ground); entrance pillars c. 1920; remnants of fence by entrance pillars (Route 9W beyond parapet stones).
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Gray Crag photo album Page 3
Palisades Interstate Park Commission - 2009
Top: Cistern near entrance pillars off U.S. Route 9W in Alpine.
Bottom: Unidentified foundation in median between Palisades Interstate Parkway and U.S. Route 9W in Alpine (holding chain-link fencing in ground on left).
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Gray Crag photo album Page 4
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Fencing, including an apparent entryway, on grounds near main building at Gray Crag (Parkway in background, top photo).
Smaller foundation remains near main building. Small concrete rectangle on ground next to foundation (possibly access to water valve, or similar?)
Gray Crag photo album Page 5
Palisades Interstate Park Commission - 2009
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In the woods near the Parkway, a fire hydrant. Beside it, a piece of slate. Beneath the slate…
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...two valves, and under the slate, hundreds of crickets. Crickets!
Gray Crag photo album Page 6
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Near the Parkway, masses of piping and brackets, some it fastened to wooden posts. Possibly part of the greenhouses?
For comparison: the greenhouses on the estate of Dr. Ernest Cadgene, several miles south on the Palisades in Englewood Cliffs, and a contemporary of Ringling’s.
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Gray Crag photo album Page 7
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Top: Bricks near the Parkway, amid non-native vegetation; partially buried flywheel in foundation of main house (possibly associated with elevator?).
Bottom: Remains of footbridge from main house across crevasse to “Gray Crag” promontory. (Wooden veneer now missing, though some wooden handrail supports remain; also missing, seemingly, are several large stones on east end of bridge, presumably knocked into crevasse when veneer was dismantled.)
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Gray Crag photo album Page 8
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On “Gray Crag.”
Painted mortar on rustic stairs at north end of “Gray Crag” (possibly part of the “cabana” structure visible in 1920 photo).
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Gray Crag photo album Page 9
Palisades Interstate Park Commission - 2009