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The Horton family had been living in an older house on the property since the 1880s, slowly acquiring the land for the estate house. Construction of the main building was begun in 1902, when Webb was 76, and completed in 1906, reportedly at a cost of a million dollars ($33.9 million in contemporary dollars [ 2 ] ).
Middletown station is part of Metro-North Railroad's Port Jervis Line. Middletown can be reached from New York City by bus and is located near the intersection of Interstate 84 and NY 17 (the future Interstate 86). State routes 17M and 211 run right through the city, and US 6 parallels I-84 to the south.
Middletown is a town in Delaware County, New York, United States. The population was 3,336 at the 2020 census. [1] [2] The town is in the southeastern part of the county.
The Gilded Age estate served as partial inspiration for the Gatsby estate in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. [75] Long Island, the most populous island in the United States, is located just off the northeast coast of the United States and is a region wholly included within both the U.S. state of New York and the New York metropolitan area.
Chester is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area. The Village of Chester is primarily located in the northern part of the Town of Chester .
Highland Mills is a hamlet and former census-designated place (CDP) in Orange County, New York, United States.The population was 3,468 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area.
Upstate New York is a geographic region of New York that lies north and northwest of the New York City metropolitan area of downstate New York. [1] [2] Upstate includes the middle and upper Hudson Valley, the Capital District, the Mohawk Valley region, Central New York, the Southern Tier, the Finger Lakes region, Western New York, and the North Country.
The magazine was the first dedicated to the country look, and the focus was originally on Early American and period homes. In addition to country homes, regular features included home plans, inns, real estate listings, kitchens, cooking and folk remedies.