History

The John Green House (JGH) is located in Nyack, New York near the foot of Main street, steps from the Hudson River. Green had a deep connection with the nearby Hudson River, and not merely due to proximity. He became wealthy transporting lumber from the Albany area to New York City in Hudson River sloops. And he was instrumental in forming the Nyack Steamship Association, serving as its chairman and major investor. Steamship operations were a growing industry at the time and Green's association built their own ship and named it the Orange. The ship made its maiden voyage in May of 1828. (Read even more history on our main website.)

The map above depicts a modern-day Nyack downtown; the yellow square is the John Green House. The red overlay* shows the land he purchased in 1818 (estimated). The outlined extension running out towards the water estimates the position and size of Green's dock. The dashed blue line shows the shoreline at the time. Note how strategic Green's land was for marine business, and how spacious it was so as to accommodate the other buildings - not shown here - required for his business operations including a general store, lumber yard, lime storage, stables, carriage house, outhouse, and a well.

(Note: find aerial and drone video on the John Green House YouTube channel.)

The Nyack Steamship Association (NSA) was, as mentioned above, a growing concern as a thriving business. The image below is an undated historical letter from Green himself written to the New York Evening Post newspaper. The letter seems to indicate that he (Green) would like to run an ad for the NSA in the newspaper.

The scan pictured below helps to illustrate the kind of activities that a Steamship business operator would partake in. Here, we find an undated fragment of a deed paper from Green to George Dickey George; the verbiage describes the sale of a sloop (sailing ship).

To examine these - and over 60 more - interesting historical documents relating to Green's business affairs you may visit our annotated public gallery of historical receipts and documents.

Proceed now to the Burleigh map to see Green's positioning with wider field of view.