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In January 2016, Historic Hudson Valley sold Montgomery Place to Bard College, returning to its original Westchester county mandate, while retaining its new name. [ 3 ] Kykuit , the Rockefeller estate in Pocantico Hills, had been left to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the will of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller , who died in 1979.
Olana State Historic Site is a historic house museum and landscape in Greenport, New York, near the city of Hudson. The estate was home to Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), one of the major figures in the Hudson River School of landscape painting .
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site, also known as Cedar Grove, is a National Historic Landmark that includes the home and the studio of painter Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School of American painting. It is located at 218 Spring Street, Catskill, NY, United States. The site provided Thomas Cole with a residence and studio from ...
West portico. Historically known as Hyde Park, the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site is one of the area's oldest Hudson River estates. [3] The earliest development of the estate began in 1764 when Dr. John Bard purchased land on the east side of the Albany Post Road, where he built Red House and developed the agricultural aspects of the eastern section of the property that continued ...
Mid-Hudson Historic house Hopkinton Town Museum Hopkinton: St. Lawrence Thousand Islands Local history information: Horace Greeley House: Chappaqua: Westchester Lower Hudson Historic house Operated by the New Castle Historical Society, 19th-century home of newspaper editor and later presidential candidate Horace Greeley: Horicon Museum Brant ...
Van Cortlandt Manor is a 17th-century house and property built by the Van Cortlandt family located near the confluence of the Croton and Hudson Rivers in the village of Croton-on-Hudson in Westchester County, New York, United States. The colonial era stone and brick manor house is now a museum and is a National Historic Landmark.
East wing of the house Inside the house. During the American Revolutionary War, the property was the home of Isaac Van Wyck.However, because of its strategic location with regard to the Hudson River and major roads, the Old Albany Post Road (later US 9) running north–south and the road running east–west (later NY 52 and Interstate 84), it was requisitioned by the Continental Army.
The idea of a historic house museum derives from a branch of history called social history that is solely based on people and their way of living. [2] It became very popular in the mid-twentieth century among scholars who were interested in the history of people, as opposed to political and economical issues.