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View of the Hudson River from Wilderstein. The mansion commissioned for the site was a plain two-story Italianate villa designed by architect John Warren Ritch of New York. Construction began in December 1852 and completed in the autumn of 1853. [9]
Sunnyside (1835) is a historic house on 10 acres (4 ha) along the Hudson River, in Tarrytown, New York. It was the home of the American author Washington Irving , best known for his short stories , such as " Rip Van Winkle " (1819) and " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " (1820).
The Hudson River Railroad was chartered the next year as a continuation of the Troy and Greenbush south to New York City, and was completed in 1851. In 1866 the Hudson River Bridge opened over the river between Greenbush and Albany, enabling through traffic between the Hudson River Railroad and the New York Central Railroad west to Buffalo.
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).
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 ...
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.
The home was designed in 1838 by Alexander Jackson Davis, and owned in succession by New York City mayor William Paulding Jr., merchant George Merritt, and railroad tycoon Jay Gould. Paulding named his house "Knoll", although critics quickly dubbed it "Paulding's Folly" because of its unusual design that includes fanciful turrets and ...
The Hudson River is a 315-mile (507 km) river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York, United States.It originates in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York at Henderson Lake in the town of Newcomb, and flows southward through the Hudson Valley to the New York Harbor between New York City and Jersey City, eventually draining into the Atlantic Ocean at Upper New ...