Great Estates of the Hudson River Valley
Westchester County:
"The Cropsey Homestead, also known
as Ever Rest, was built in 1835 and purchased by Jasper F. Cropsey
in 1885. Cropsey extended Ever Rest by adding an artist’s studio to it
in 1885"
http://www.newingtoncropsey.com/
"Home to four generations of the Rockefeller
family, Kykuit commands a breathtaking view of the Hudson River
and occupies a landscape of extensive stone terraces, formal gardens,
and glorious fountains."
http://www.hudsonvalley.org/web/kyku-main.html
"Lyndhurst
was designed by Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892) in the Gothic Revival
style"on 67 acres.
http://www.hudsonvalley.org/web/lynd-main.html
"Philipsburg Manor (was) once the headquarters
of an enormous Hudson Valley manor, the site vividly interprets aspects
of the history of colonial New York and the system of racially-based slavery
which helped keep the estate running in the 18th century."
http://www.hudsonvalley.org/web/phil-main.html
"Sunnyside is the meticulously restored
and charmingly picturesque home of renowned author Washington Irving.
This important house and landscape enjoys a quiet and unspoiled riverside
setting in Tarrytown, New York."
http://www.hudsonvalley.org/web/sunn-main.html
"Van Cortlandt Manor, situated on the
banks of the Croton River in Croton-on-Hudson, New York, is a working
estate and elegant country house that brings the new nation period vividly
to life."
http://www.hudsonvalley.org/web/vanc-main.html
Putnam County:
"Boscobel is an elegant,
neo-classical mansion sited high above the Hudson River in the Hudson
Highlands about fifty miles north of New York City."
http://www.boscobel.org
Orange County:
"The Crawford House is the neo-classical
1830's residence of David Crawford, a civic leader and maritime entrepreneur,
who contributed greatly to the growth of (Newburgh) business in the first
half of the 19th century. The Crawford House is listed on the National
Register of Historic Places, serves as a community resource center, and
is open to the public on a regular basis."
http://www.newburghhistoricalsociety.com/home.html
Dutchess County
Samuel F.B. Morse bought Locust Grove in
1847, and renovated the Georgian house, with Alexander Jackson Davis,
into a Tuscan Villa that featured a new north and south wing, four-story
tower facing the Hudson, and a porte-cochere. The Youngs, a society family
of Poughkeepsie, purchased the estate in 1901 and maintained much of the
architecture and grounds as Morse left them, while contributing a sense
of early 20th century society life to the site.
http://www.morsehistoricsite.org/
"Mills Mansion is an elegant example
of the great estates built by America's financial and industrial leaders
during the Gilded Age."
http://nysparks.state.ny.us/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nysparks/historic.cgi?p+31
"Montgomery Place is best known as
an architectural landmark designed by Alexander Jackson Davis and a landscape
influenced by the great Andrew Jackson Downing."
http://www.hudsonvalley.org/web/mont-main.html
Springside,
the former home of Matthew Vassar, best known for founding of Vassar College
in 1861, was designed by Andrew Jackson Downing.
http://www.pojonews.com/enjoy/stories/0916961.htm
Wilderstein,
in Rhinecliff, is a three-story Queen Anne style country house featuring
a 5 story circular tower, interior design by Joseph Burr Tifffany, and
landscaping by Calvert Vaux.
http://www.wilderstein.org/
Frederick Vanderbilt’s Mansion in
Hyde Park, built between 1895 and 1898, was designed by Charles Follen
McKim of the firm McKim, Mead, and White. The grounds are extensively
landscaped with a wide variety of trees and gardens.
http://www.nps.gov/vama/vamahome.html
The National Park Service operates the Franklin
D. Roosevelt home, Springwood, and library, as well as Eleanor
Roosevelt’s property, VallKill in Hyde Park.
http://www.nps.gov/hofr/hofrhome.html
"Mount Gulian is the Verplanck family
homestead, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the home
was originally built by Gulian Verplanck, a prominent Dutch merchant,
between 1730 and 1740.
http://cityguide.pojonews.com/fe/Heritage/stories/he_mount_gulian.asp
Columbia County
"Clermont
was the Hudson River seat of the politically and socially prominent Livingston
family of New York for more than 230 years. Seven successive generations
of the family left their imprint on the architecture, room interiors,
and landscape at Clermont."
http://www.friendsofclermont.org/
Widely regarded as his last great work, Frederich
Church began working with Calvert Vaux to design Olana along the
lines of a Moorish Villa in 1870 and finished the exterior by 1872. The
studio was added in 1891, and enjoys a view of the Hudson River valley
and the Catskills to the west.
http://www.olana.org/
Renssalear County
Crailo State Historic Site
is a museum of the Dutch in the upper Hudson Valley.
http://nysparks.state.ny.us/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nysparks/historic.cgi?p+4
Albany County:
"Built as a farmhouse on 900 acres in the
same year the United States Constitution was drafted, Cherry Hill
today sits on the crest of a five-acre wooded hill overlooking the Hudson
River in the South End of Albany, New York.
This 18th-century Georgian-style house was
the heart and home of a five-generation Albany Family."
http://www.historiccherryhill.org/
"Completed in 1763 and built in the elegant
Georgian style, Schuyler's mansion evoked the praise of many travelers
who described it in their journals. George Washington, Benjamin Franklin,
and Benedict Arnold were among Schuyler's visitors Schuyler Mansion, on
its small urban plot, is all that remains of an estate that once embraced
elaborate gardens, orchards, fields, and numerous farm buildings."
http://nysparks.state.ny.us/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/nysparks/historic.cgi?p+24
Organizations:
Historic Hudson Valley’s
mission is to preserve the culture, landscape and history of the Hudson
River Valley, and to present this heritage to the public through educational
outreach, daily programming at historic properties, and special events.
http://www.hudsonvalley.org/index.html
Hudson River Heritage (HRH) is a
nonprofit membership organization committed to preserving the unique character
of the Mid-Hudson Valley's historic architecture, rural landscapes and
scenic viewsheds through advocacy and education.
http://www.hudsonriverheritage.org/index.html
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