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  2. Boscobel (mansion) - Wikipedia

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    Dyckman built the house in the Westchester County hamlet of Montrose. In an effort to save the house from demolition in the mid-20th century, preservationists arranged for it to move 15 miles (24 km) upriver to its current location, one mile south of the village of Cold Spring, Putnam County, along New York State Route 9D.

  3. Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park - Wikipedia

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    Photo of Coe Hall by Robert Swanson The gallery Coe Hall as seen from other side Mr. Coe's bedroom Buffalo Room. The history of the present-day property on the famous "Gold Coast" of Long Island began between 1904 and 1912, when Helen MacGregor Byrne – wife of New York City lawyer James Byrne – purchased six farming properties which she collectively referred to as "Upper Planting Fields Farm".

  4. “Undiscovered History”: 120 Interesting Pictures From The Past

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    The past can be quite fascinating.Those of us living in the present find it really interesting what life was like 50, 100, or even a 1,000 years ago. Luckily, we can go almost 200 years to the ...

  5. Gibson Mansion - Wikipedia

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    The Gibson House (also known as the Yolo County Historical Collection, YCHC, the Gibson Mansion, or the Gibson Museum) is a historic house that now serves as a museum in Woodland, California. It exemplifies several architectural styles, including Georgian Revival , Italianate and Neoclassical .

  6. Woolworth Estate - Wikipedia

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    Winfield Hall, like many other Long Island mansions, has ghostlore associated with it. [5] It is said that on the evening of May 2, 1917, as Edna Woolworth Hutton, Frank Woolworth's middle daughter, took her own life at The Plaza Hotel in New York City, while her father was at Winfield Hall hosting a party, a somewhat bizarre and unexplained incident occurred.

  7. List of Gilded Age mansions - Wikipedia

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    New York City: Built for Augustus C Richards, was demolished in 1931 for the construction of Fort Tryon Park. Alexander Turney Stewart House 1869 Second Empire: John Kellum: New York City: Demolished in 1901 more images: Charles M. Schwab House: 1906: Beaux-Arts: Maurice Hébert: New York City: Demolished in 1947 [89] Tryon Hall 1903 Beaux-Arts ...

  8. Olana State Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Cedarmere-Clayton Estates - Wikipedia

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    The mansion's interior features much original woodwork and plaster. [1] Near the main house is a garden designed by Marian Coffin, with symmetrical plantings surrounding a central fountain. The remnants of a private zoo, primarily an old animal enclosure and tower. A narrow road leads to the Jerusha Dewey Cottage, originally built by Bryant for ...