- ... that New York's New Hempstead Presbyterian Church (current building, pictured) was the first established in the colony west of the Hudson River by a congregation of English descent?
- ... that the kitchen wing of the Lace House in Canaan, New York, deteriorated so badly during a probate fight over the house that it had to be demolished and rebuilt?
- ... that the Poughkeepsie Trust Company building has been described as the Hudson Valley's first modern skyscraper despite being only six stories high?