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The Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory property was built in 1874 as William S. Patten's Poughkeepsie Live Oak Leather Manufactury, and shortly thereafter became the Dutchess Manufacturing Company, which added on substantially to the original structure. It is a 3+1⁄2-story, eight-bay brick building. It was expanded about 1887

By 1895 it was William Paulding's Cooperage. In 1899 the Queen Undermuslin Company was incorporated, and in 1904 it moved from a location on Mill Street into this building, forever leaving its mark on the property now known as the Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

The redevelopment of the Poughkeepsie Underwear Factory is the anchor project in Hudson River Housing's work to revitalize the Middle Main Street corridor. This Hudson Valley nonprofit renovated this three story, 22,000 square foot building as mixed-use, with two thirds consisting of apartments, and one third as a commerci...

I have a love of the wonders of New York's Hudson River Valley and Vermont's Northeast Kingdom outdoors: scenic vistas, historic places and homes, businesses and activities make up these communities. Looking through my collection of 1970s Ocracoke, North Carolina scenic drawings, I decided I should take up drawing in earnest again. I continue to identify and record great subject matter for new drawings that might interest local art lovers in New York and Vermont. Working from location or from my photographs and digital images, I render subjects in black and cool gray felt tip marker on acid free smooth fine quality 90# white drawing papers. I translate what I see in my mind’s eye with a touch of whimsy and take the hard edge away...