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Living Above the Store is a unique set of portraits using photography, text, and the individual voices of six independent business owners in the village of Rosendale — a former cement-mining town in New York’s Hudson Valley.

 

Each of these owners adapted an older building to create their individual living and working spaces, giving them flexibility in running their shops and creating a distinctive sense of community along a two-block stretch of the town’s Main Street. Published in November 2022, the book explores these modern adaptations of a traditional world-wide building typology rarely found now in the United States.

...this is an extraordinarily lovely book. The photos are beautiful, and the verbal portraits are likewise. This is a book that belongs on the library’s shelves and in a time capsule…

                                               Bluestone Press

For more information see Publisher's webpage.

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The book may be ordered directly from Postmark Books in Rosendale at: 

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Price: $24.50, of which $10.00 will be donated to the Friends of the Rosendale Library

SAMPLE PAGES

Photo courtesy of Strudelmedialive Publishing

Photo courtesy of Strudelmedialive Publishing

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