A walk around Dobbs Ferry – Some buildings along Main Street

Nothing special. I don’t think that there’s anything particularly exceptional or of historical significance about these buildings. Although I might be wrong. I’ve recently taken some pictures of buildings along the equivalent of Main Street (Pleasantville Road) in my village. Some of the buildings didn’t look very interesting, and some looked so uninteresting that I didn’t even both taking a picture of them at all.

Recently I’ve been volunteering at the Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough Historical Society and I’ve discovered that some of these “uninteresting” buildings are important historically. For example: An unprepossessing art gallery (one of the buildings I didn’t even photograph) turned out to once upon a time have been the village post office. The gallery’s awning completely hides an old bas relief of a pony express rider.

I don’t know anything about the history these buildings. Maybe one day I’ll try to discover something about them. I photographed them because I thought they looked interesting. As noted street photographer Garry Winogrand once said: “I photograph to see what things look like photographed”.