Garrison Landing Historic District

Garrison Landing is a small riverside hamlet of seventeen structures stretched along a quarter-mile of the Hudson's east bank, directly across from West Point. Most buildings date from the mid-19th century, when the landing served river commerce and the railroad. Henry White Belcher, owner of the Garrison and West Point Ferry Company, built many of the modest frame houses between 1849 and 1859 for his employees, giving the community a unified character. Key landmarks include an 1892 stone railroad station, now a theater, an older frame depot moved nearby, an intact frame store with its original storefront, and the brick Golden Eagle Hotel, still operating. Daily trips to West Point and Highland Falls brought mail, food, baggage and freight to the west shore. The grassy common behind the buildings holds a gazebo built for the 1960s filming of Hello Dolly. The district is valued as an intact, picturesque example of a Hudson River landing community.