Opening Day for the Rip Van Winkle Bridge on June 2, 1935. Photo courtesy New York State Bridge Authority ArchivesAn aerial view, looking southeast, of the Rip Van Winkle Bridge passing over Rogers Island. Photo: courtesy NYS Bridge AuthorityThe view of Rogers Island and the Rip Van Winkle Bridge from Frederic Church’s studio at Olana, February 2025The Rip Van Winkle Bridge, by John Gould, with Olana and the Thomas Cole Site. Photo courtesy New York Bridge Authority and the family of artist John Gould. Click here to see John Gould’s beautiful painting of Olana, in full color with bald eagles flying by.A Black Lives Matter march proceeds across the Rip Van Winkle Bridge, June 20, 2020. Photo by Mark Prezorski
Rogers Island, taken from Frederic Church’s studio at Olana. The Washington Ice Co. building was on the left (southern) edge of the islandThe marsh on Rogers Island, taken from above on the Rip Van Winkle Bridge, February 2014
