A Tourist Guide to Rhinebeck, New York 1

First Introduction and History

On the east side of the Hudson River in Dutchess County about 100 miles north of Manhattan, Rhinebeck, Taconic State Parkway, Route 9, Route 9W and access the New York State Thruway, is both a historic and picturesque village intense. He is part of the Hudson River Valley National Historic Area, which was founded in 1996 by Congress to S. U. recognize, preserve, protect, and interpret the nationally significant history and resources of the valley for the benefit of the nation, and extends from Yonkers to Albany.

Founded in 1686, when the Dutch Gerrit Arts, Arie Roosa, Jan Elting and Henrick Kip is 2200 hectares of land exchanged with the six local Indians of the Esopus (Kingston) and Sopaseo (Rhinebeck) tribes, was originally called "Kipsbergen. In 1713, after Judge Henry Beekman these lands as "Ryn Beck" for the first time.

One of the largest historic districts in the nation, with 437 sites in the historic center, Village National Register lists the nucleic acid of Rhinebeck and the larger, nearby town of Rhinebeck, comprise half the stretch of 16 miles of 30 companies with contiguous riverfront includes associated land nobility of the region during the 18th, 19th and 20th Century.

Often called a "picturesque village" and the "Jewel of the Hudson, there are many attractions close excursions, such as antique shops, art galleries, bed-and-breakfasts, inns and restaurants, most located in buildings historians.

Signature and brave the village of Beekman Arms, America's oldest continuously operating Inn on the National Register of Historic Places listed. Traces its origins to 1766, when Arent Traphagen contains robust effective structure of his father Bogardos stone and wood - as constructed, to protect against Indian attacks - the intersection of newly appointed village Ryn Beck, who ultimately served from Mecca of the revolutionary, often hosting the like of George Washington, Benedict Arnold and Alexander Hamilton. When burned, the British then the capital Kingston, located on the Hudson River, the inhabitants took refuge here.

Purchased in 1802 by Asa Potter, it subsequently served several roles, including the town hall, theater, post office, mail and newspapers.

Rebuilt, expanded and renamed its current "Beekman Arms" moniker from secondary durs owner Tracy served as the inspiration for the novel by Thomas Wolfe, the time and the river, after frequent visits here, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt came from near Hyde Park started all four of the governor's successful elections and election campaigns as much of his porch.

The much larger group provides routes for travel and accommodation, surrounded by a natural, colonial atmosphere.

Tavern in the Beekman Arms, the ground floor, is cut with dark wood, a huge brick fireplace, wooden floors and decorated in width and is divided into Colonial Tap Room, a garden greenhouse and several separate dining area.

The upper floors contain the original Inn is meticulously restored and elegantly furnished in 1766, although housing is connected in many structures. Among the brick walls and high ceilings, for example, guests can stay in the village of the original Fire House, while the Townsend House, which opened in 2004, design and architecture of other historic Rhinebeck, the structures involved. The Guest House, located behind the main Inn, offers lower costs, motel style.

The Inn Delameter, designed in 1844 by Alexander Jackson Davis, and an example of Carpenter Gothic architecture is American, one block north of Beekman Arms, and is part of a seven-Pension-complex, a courtyard surrounded. Many rooms have fireplaces.

Rhinebeck is offered many attractions. The Dutchess County Fair, for example, hosts events like the Dutchess County Fair, Rhinebeck Antiques Fair, Rhinebeck Code handicraft shows, festivals and Iroquos, while the Center for the Performing Arts offers live in Rhinebeck classical , theater, music and shows for children presented local theater groups, even if the talent has included both national and international names. Like a giant barn to complement the surrounding landscape and pay tribute to the origins of the stock summer, will replace the temporary tent under the guise of 1994-1997 season was the opening in July next year and a home throughout the year in 1999

Some early aircraft and places of historical and architectural interest of the immediate area of the city, many of which offer splendid views of the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains beyond.

According to the Museum of Rhinebeck History

3.5 miles north of the village of Rhinebeck on Route 9, Rhinebeck History Museum, housed in historic house located Quitman, was founded in 1992, "the understanding and appreciation of Rhinebeck History to encourage the collection, preservation , display and interpretation of materials for Rhinebeck significant "through letters, books, magazines, clothing, furniture, photographs, postcards and artifacts. Open from mid June to October 31, features two shows per year would, in the earlier application "of the first century," The Civil War, "" The Golden Age, "" World War "," Roosevelt Years " "World War II" and "Early Industries Rhinebeck, among others.

La Casa Quitman had marked the first settlement area of the city, which was in 1798 as the parish house of parishioners of the nearby Old Stone Church for Pastor Frederick H. Quitman, the Lutheran congregation served more than three decades had built.

Henry Beekman, Palatine Hill, the 35 German families settled in the area were the beginning of 1700, when most of the land was granted by Royalty, and has developed the emerging church community in a single register until the 19th Century , when Commerce had taken root three miles south of the village called "The Rascal".

Third Stone Wilder

The hotel is located two and half km from the center of Rhinebeck, stone Wilder, according to the Petroglyph of a figure, a pipe of peace in his right hand and a tomahawk in his left hand in Suckley Cove, translated as "wild man's stone" from German and had a subdued Villa Italianast when it was built in 1852. Home to three generations of the Suckley family, had greatly expanded in 1888 with two upper floors, a tower and a veranda, making it the Queen Anne house-developed, overlooking the Hudson River that is today.

The interior retains its original wall sculptures, furniture, art, book inventories and glass from its 1888 expansion, and the ground floor designed by Joseph Burr Tifany, has a dark, heavily paneled lobby, a fireplace, a library, a dining room, kitchen and two living rooms.

Calvert Vaux and his son, 1890, hired to design the external landscape in romantic style, was already a long list of similar services, other properties including the Hudson River and Prospect Park and Central Park in New York, and ordered 1,091 shrubs and 41 trees from a local nursery for the project Rhinebeck Stone Wilder. The area, which has significantly reduced its original size, now comprises 40 acres and three miles of hiking trails.

Margaret (Daisy) Suckley, a close friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the last to survive, had transferred the villa and the park for the conservation Wilder Stein 1983, a non-profit educational institution. Today it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Fourth Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome

The hotel is situated on small, easily missed Norton Road on the east side of the Hudson River, not far from the village of Rhinebeck Aerodrome Old Rhinebeck offers you a time portal to the meadows and aircraft-related substance, that the bud "before" to represent aviation a century ago.

To get a seed was planted, as Cole Palen, with its well-deserved cell and license the engine to form the now defunct Roosevelt Aviation School on Long Island, purchased six aircraft for sale offered by the museum to leave the area for next Roosevelt Field Shopping Mall.

After storage in an abandoned chicken coop on a farm in Rhinebeck Palen, the six planes, a SPAD XII 1917, a 1918 Standard J-1, a 1914 Avro 504K, a Curtiss Jenny, 1918, 1918 included a Sopwith 7F1 Snipe and 1918 Aeromarine 39B, had its first fleet and the "airport" a swamp 1,000 meters long, stony, well drained clearing had served as a "track" and only a crude building as "Hangar" on a piece of farmland that had bought later. Further acquisitions of aircraft and parts they had expanded the lineup most of the biplane, after considerable restoration and reconstruction.

Three hangars metal Quonset hut, which is 1963-1964 and the head of a small hill above the main park-and dirt-grass, Pioneer House, World War I and Lindbergh was built aircraft today, facing a new Museum plant and a small gift shop. But the same airport, on the other side of Norton Road is through a covered wooden bridge, access more than one input is used in lawn, but when the time to reach the portal was barnstorming aviation, a historical dimension in some Arrested and get in the way time outside its borders.

The hook as if nothing on the calendar, proud brave the winds, with names like Albatros Werke, the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough, AV Roe and Company, Ltd., and Fokker. But is the large number of mono-, bi-and triplane, the most violent struggle with a concept of time-present.

The current Air Show, which runs from mid June to mid October, the "history of flight" has aired on Saturday, with aircraft like the Pioneer Blériot XI, Curtiss D Pusher "and Hanriot during World War He shows me on Sunday structures, such as the albatross, including the Avro 504K, Caudron G. III, the Curtiss JN-4D Jenny, Fokker D. VII, Fokker Dr.I, II Nieuport, the Sopwith Camel, SPAD VII the D1W Davis, Havviland de Tiger Moth, and the Great Lakes 2T-1R.

Biplane rides in four standard D-25 new passengers are given before and after the show, while viewers will see the fleet, both in stores or on the grass airfield at lunch on picnic tables outside the cafeteria at the airport.

Audience volunteers, athletes Victorian, Edwardian and 1920 dress, fashion offer, after the change in Singles airport, crawlers, red caboose, often transported viewers in the past, vintage cars, like Renault, 1909, and a 1916 Studebaker 1914 Model T Speedster. Period music completes the scene.

The air shows what sprint high treetops only airplane Pioneer relandings immediate first on the lawn, or offer more dramatic maneuvers of World War I and Lindbergh era designs, including acrobatics, air combat, bombing, balloon bursting, paratroopers and "Delsey units."