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 * ... that Matthew Vassar's Springside estate (pictured), Andrew Jackson Downing's only extant work, has been a proposed site for a cemetery, high school and condominiums?
 * ... that the historic district in the Village of Monroe includes the factory where Velveeta was first made and the oldest Masonic lodge in New York state?
 * ... that the Red Hill fire tower was the last in the Catskills to be closed down?