River Rd. S, Chelsea, New York. County/parish: Dutchess.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 25, 1987. NRIS 87001370.
Part of Chelsea MRA (NRIS 64000543).
3 contributing buildings.
The Captain Moses W. Collyer House, also Driftwood, is located on River Road South in Chelsea, New York, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
It was the home of Collyer, a riverboat captain on the nearby Hudson, from 1899 until his death on September 22, 1942, as noted by New York Times. A few years after moving in, he cowrote The Sloops of the Hudson, a memoir and history of the years when sailboats were the primary means of getting up and down the river. An exhaustive and complete work that drew on Collyer's background in a riverfaring family, it is today considered the definitive history of that era and its boats.
The house itself, built just before the turn of the 20th century, is an eclectic mixture of Late Victorian styles reflecting Collyer's experience traveling the river and its port communities. It is still a private residence, and not open to the public.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312674