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The Hudson River Museum, located in Trevor Park in Yonkers, New York, is the largest museum in Westchester County, [2] and features the only public planetarium in the county. While often considered an art museum due to its extensive collection of Hudson River School paintings, the museum also presents exhibits on the history , science and ...
The museum is located in the former Washington Bath House and was founded by Marylou Whitney. It is related to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center and also provides dance classes and master classes through the Lewis A. Swyer School for the Arts, which hosts the New York State Summer School of the Arts during July and August. [3] [4] [5]
Some of these landmarks have earned distinction as members of other notable designations including the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area list. Still others are on New York State's Path Through History or Westchester County's African American Heritage Trail.
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.
Trevor Park was established soon afterwards. The house stood vacant for six years until it was opened as the Museum of Science and Art, [2] with the collection established at Yonkers City Hall in 1919 for future historical use. [18] In 1948 it became the Hudson River Museum, [19] renting the house and the land from the city for $1 a year. [18]
T. Coraghessan Boyle, who grew up in the Hudson Valley and who attended college in the North Country, which he describes as the "frozen skullcap of New York State" Walter R. Brooks, author of the 26-book Freddy the Pig series set in central New York. Born in Rome, NY, Brooks lived in Rochester, New York City, and lastly in Roxbury, NY.
Life Along the Hudson (New York, NY: Rizzoli, 2018). Jane Garmey. Private Gardens of the Hudson Valley (New York, NY: Monacelli Press, 2013). Michael Middleton Dwyer, editor, with a preface by Mark Rockefeller. Great Houses of the Hudson River (Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, published in association with Historic Hudson Valley, 2001).
Dia Beacon is the museum for the Dia Art Foundation's collection of art from the 1960s to the present and is one of the 12 locations and sites they manage. The museum, which opened in 2003, is situated near the banks of the Hudson River in Beacon, New York.