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| Figure 45 Coeymans Castle, illustrated in Joel Munsell, Collections
on the History of Albany: From Its Discovery to the Present Time, 4 vols. (Albany: J. Munsell, 1871), 4: opp. 184n. (Courtesy, Winterthur Library.) In 1925 Charlotte Amelia Houghtaling (1838-1933) reported that her mother, Charlotte Bronck Houghtaling (1799-1891), had attended school in Coeymans Castle before its demolition in the 1830s and attested to the accuracy of this image. (Helen Wilkinson Reynolds, Dutch Houses in the Hudson Valley before 1776 [New York: Payson and Clarke, 1929], pp. 71-74.) Charlotte Amelia Houghtaling owned the portrait of Ariaantje Coeymans (see fig. 83), and she was a first cousin once removed of the probable later owners of the kast illustrated in fig. 43. Coeymans Castle was remarkably similar to the older section of the Bronck House, built in Coxsackie in 1665. |