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The history of Edgewater dates back to December 23, 1819, when Bishop Hobart of New York City married "Lowndes Brown, esq. of Charleston S.C. and Miss Margaretta Livingston, daughter of John R. Livingston, esq." [6] The groom, Rawlins Lowndes Brown (1792–1852), was a graduate of Yale College, class of 1806, and had been (as recently as September 1819 when he resigned his commission) Captain ...
Ten years later, the Livingston descendants sold it to Historic Hudson Valley, a regional historic preservation group. [8] The district was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1990, and Montgomery Place received that designation itself in 1992. [2] In January 2016, Bard College purchased the estate from Historic Hudson Valley. [9]
Buildings and structures in Westchester County, New York (18 C, 67 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures in the Hudson Valley" This category contains only the following page.
The Hudson Valley (also known as the Hudson River Valley) comprises the valley of the Hudson River and its adjacent communities in the U.S. state of New York. The region stretches from the Capital District including Albany and Troy south to Yonkers in Westchester County, bordering New York City. (Full article...
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.
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).
Tech Valley is a marketing name for the eastern part of New York State, including the Hudson Valley and the Capital District. [31] Originating in 1998 to promote the greater Albany area as a high-tech competitor to regions such as Silicon Valley and Boston , it has since grown to represent the counties in New York between IBM 's Westchester ...
[2] [3] New York City, the most populous city in the United States, is home to the United Nations headquarters, [4] and has been described as the cultural, [5] [6] financial, [7] [8] [9] and media capital of the world, [10] [11] as well as the world's most economically powerful city, [12] [7] [13] and is sometimes described as the capital of ...