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Local Attractions

Vanderbilt Mansion

The Vanderbilt Estate in Hyde Park, New York is perhaps the best, most intact example of the types of estates constructed by wealthy industrialists in the 19th century. The fully furnished, 54-room mansion is placed in a wondrous landscape with breathtaking views of the Hudson River and distant Catskill Mountains. If offers a glimpse into a past world known by only an elite few.
www.nps.gov/vama/

Staatsburgh State Historic Site

Formerly known as Mills Mansion, this is an elegant example of the great estates built by America's financial and industrial leaders during the Gilded Age.
www.staatsburgh.org

Olana

One of the only intact 19th century studio houses in the United States. It was created by Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), one of the most renowned American artists of the Hudson River School. Church designed his house both as a work of art and as a home for his family. The interior rooms are intact and are furnished with an eclectic mixture reflecting high style "art" and inherited furniture, objects indicative of Church's interest in the history of civilization, and paintings by the artists and his friends.
www.olana.org/index.php

Martin Van Buren’s Home

The mission of Martin Van Buren National Historic Site is to preserve Lindenwald, the home and farm of the nation's eighth president. Martin Van Buren's life bridged the 80 years between the American War for Independence and the U.S. Civil War, the critical formative years of the American Republic. When coupled with its surroundings and vistas, Lindenwald appears as it did when Martin Van Buren lived.
www.nps.gov/mava/

Blenheim-Gilboa Visitors Center & Lansing Manor

Visit to the Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped Storage Power Project in North Blenheim, just 40 miles southwest of Albany on the Schoharie Creek in the northern Catskill Mountains. And right next to it is Lansing Manor, an early American country estate, built in 1819. A history buff's dream come true, Lansing Manor is filled with authentic furnishings from the first half of the 19th century.
www.nypa.gov/vc/blengil.htm#Lansing Manor

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Home

This estate contains "Springwood", the lifelong home of America's only 4-term President. Also on the site is the Presidential Library and Museum, operated by the National Archives. Visitors may enjoy a guided tour of FDR's home, take a self-guided tour of the Museum, or stroll the grounds, gardens, and trails of this 300-acre site.
www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/

Clermont State Historic Site

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 print on the architecture, room interiors, and landscape at Clermont. Today the 485-acre historic site appears much as it did in the early twentieth century, when the estate was the home of the last two generations to occupy the property: Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Livingston and their daughters, Honoria and Janet.
www.friendsofclermont.org/index.html

Bronck House Museum

A complex of Dutch Colonial dwellings and 19th Century barns, including the oldest surviving Dutch House in the Hudson Valley. The site was operated as a working farm by 8 generations of the Bronck Family. The 1663 and 1738 dwellings are furnished with 18th and 19th century art, furniture, textiles, ceramics, and silver. The house barn has a varied collection of Greene County Memorabilia.
/www.gchistory.org/barns.php

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