DISCOVER Edward Hopper's Nyack
Homes spotlighted on this tour are NOT open to the public. Please respect our neighbors' privacy. Thank you!
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1 82 N Broadway
Edward Hopper was born and grew up in this house. The Federal south wing was built in 1858 by Edward’s maternal grandfather, John Dewint Smith. (Smith was from the family who once owned the the DeWint House in Tappan, NJ, where George Washington headquartered during the Revolutionary War.) The Victorian north wing was added for Edward’s mother, Elizabeth Griffiths Smith Hopper (her artwork is also on view in the House today). After Hopper’s death, the house fell into disrepair but was saved from demolition and restored by people in the community who were devoted to preserving Hopper’s home and legacy in Nyack.
2 Miss Dickey's School
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3 First Baptist Church
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4 Pretty Penny
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5 Seven A.M.
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6 The Lee SHore
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7 Hook Mountain
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8 Little Boy Looking at the Sea
- 59 Gedney St
Put yourself on Hopper’s childhood path as he skipped down the hill to the banks of the Hudson. At the Edward Hopper House, see Edward’s wooden boat models and drawings of ships. Hopper said once in an interview (Arlene Jacobowitz, Brooklyn Museum, 1966), “I thought at one time I’d like to be a naval architect because I am interested in boats, but I got to be a painter instead.” Imagine Hopper as a child, standing quietly at the water’s edge, growing into the mature artist who painted not only on the shores of the Hudson in Nyack, but also on the banks of the Seine in Paris, and on the sandy ocean beaches of Maine and Massachusetts. Little Boy Looking at the Sea was drawn on the back of a report card (dated October 23, 1891) when Hopper was nine years old. It is an early example of one of the many solitary, contemplative figures that Hopper would draw and paint for the rest of his life.
9 Hopper's Friends
- on 1st Avenue
House #16 was built circa 1850 by William Dickey (see site 1: “Miss Dickey’s School”). #8, #12, and #16 appear much as they did when teenage Hopper visited friends at #16 and #24. Hopper and his friends Harry MacArthur and Louis Blauvelt made up a “secret association” (1896-1898) called the “Three Commodores” which revolved around sailing and other boat related activities complete with official insignia flags, meetings, minutes and club rules. See the notebooks, and more, in the The Riley Family Archive at Edward Hopper House.
10 "G. H. Hopper Dry Goods"
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11 Oak Hill Cemetery
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