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Fifth Place Montgomery

Designed by Alexander Jackson Davis and lie on a landscape of Andrew Jackson Downing, influenced Montgomery Place, the route is 9G in Annandale-on-Hudson, is an ornate, classical revival, architectural monuments, whether Hudson Valley Estate and the lives of almost 200 years of family ownership and imprint.

Traces its origins to 1802, when 59 years, Janet Livingston Montgomery ES had purchased 242 acres of land to plant a commercial farm and build a house, called the "Chateau de Montgomery" in honor of her husband, General Richard Montgomery, is was first as a base to live and work in these areas.

The jump at the end of a half-mile long avenue of deciduous trees, the style of the Federal Republic, rural "stucco house in downtown WAS orchards, gardens, nurseries had, and greenhouses, flowers and trees too were sent by the exotic world, including magnolia, jasmine yellow, orange, mango and from England and Italy in Europe and Antigua in the Caribbean. The prosperous society provided the seed and fruit trees to local farmers.

Although the property had had General Montgomery's heirs were determined forced to leave their former husband had younger brother, Edward Livingston, whose career in public service includes positions as mayor of New York, U. S. Representative and Senator from Louisiana, Secretary of State for Finance during the administration of Andrew Jackson.

Louis Livingston, the widow, and Coralie Livingston Barton, the daughter of the manor Square renamed "Montgomery", has a summer residence and profoundly alter their architectural and landscape over a period of 40 years. The yard and pasture, especially sported formal flower gardens and a winter garden decorated and aesthetic properties were, with walks, saw Kill Stream, rustic benches, gardens and an arboretum colored fruit with purple-leaved beech, cucumber includes improved magnolia, red oak, sweet gum, Tuliptree, white oak, flowering dogwood Sargent weeping hemlock, Amur Corktree, locust and sycamore trees. This monolith of 150 years-OD can still enjoy nature, while the foot with the Visitor's Center and the royal palace.

According to the style of Alexander Jackson Davis, then the greatest American architect of the Romantic movement, was Himself designed the house, with verandas, great new and balustrades for a dual phase process, which started in 1842 and during the ' year 1860, making it the classical revival as it is today.

Andrew Jackson Downing, particularly for writers and landscape co-owner of a nursery in Newburgh, New York, provided input on the garden, statues, paths, and water games.

After a decline in post-civil war, was employed during which the property of relatives, was inherited from Gen. John Ross Delafield, a descendant of Livingston and New York lawyer, he and his wife, Violetta White Delafield, himself a botanist , Introduction by increasing landscape garden room for roses, herbs and perennials, a wild garden, an artificial stream, and an ellipse with plants safe pool water.

In 1986, descendants mediated Delafield title Montgomery Place, ensure the 424 acres of land and the village of Annandale, the Sleepy Hollow Restorations (later renamed Historic Hudson Valley), their restoration and preservation. Now a National Historic Landmark, reopened to the public two years later.

Sixth Bard College

Only a short distance north past, and immediately route 9G Annandale-on-Hudson, Bard College. A merger of two historic buildings, the liberal arts, residential campus, more than 500 hectares of meadows and woodlands on the edge of the river, a complex of buildings and paths through wooded areas along the Saw Kill Stream and up the Hudson River, where the growing Catskill Mountains are visible.

Founded in 1860 by John Bard Church in collaboration with the leadership of New York and the Bishops' Conference of St. Stephens College, above, uses some of the assets Riverside Bard, Annandale, and the Chapel of the Holy Innocents, which won both a classical preparatory curriculum for all those who teach the seminar in force.

The move towards a broader, secular institute in 1919, has included two courses in natural and social sciences in their curriculum for the first time, and a decade later, served as a student at Columbia University School of. Increasingly free of the arts, was officially adopted "name" Bard College in 1934 and ten years later, a mixed school, breaking relations with Colombia.

In 1960 the curriculum included very advanced science, art, art history, sculpture, and anthropology, and has a significantly larger student base and faculty. A film department was established.

His undergraduate degree in the first place, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, founded in 1981, and by the summer of 1990, the Bard Music Festival, was created to provide a deeper understanding of the repertoire of the composer known introduced, with particular emphasis on work and was another artist and presented in modern, metal roof, Frank O. Gehry, Richard B. Designed Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in 2003. The bold architecture, the unique structure, offers guided tours by day and chamber music, orchestra, jazz, theater, musicals, dance, opera and shows of international and American artists during the evening, divided into three branches. The Sosnoff Theater, with a pit orchestra, balcony and two sections, offers seating for 900, while teaching theater Bleacher two sports adjustable seats and a tower-type semi-fly with a walkway. The St. Felicitas Thorne Dance Studio serves as a classroom and rehearsal room.

Seventh Clermont State Historic Site

The 500-acre Clermont State Historic Site, north of town off Route 9G Tivoli, was the seat of the family politically and socially important Livingston, seven generations, influenced both the house and its grounds for a period of 230 years.

The company takes up to 1728, when Robert Livingston, Jr. purchased 13,000 acres along the Hudson River from his father, the First Lord of Livingston Manor, which owned the second largest tract of private land in colonial New York , and built a brick building in Georgian style, 1730-1750, baptism of the French name for "clear mountain" or "Clermont", visible to him after the summit in Catskill.

When his only son, Robert P. Livingston, and Margaret Beekman, who were heirs to large tracts of land had married, has expanded significantly throughout the property. Own, and his eldest son, Robert. R. Livingston, Jr., was a prominent figure and very influential, who developed active as a Committee of Five, the Declaration of Independence, when the first U. S. Minister of Foreign Affairs, in particular Secretary of State and Chancellor of New York, under whose title gave the oath of office to George Washington as first president of the nation.

Because of the Livingston family's involvement in the promotion of independence, British troops burned the specific and the manor house in the fall of 1777, but Margaret Beekman Livingston, who had succeeded, it was rebuilt in the period 1779-1782.

Designed for agricultural purposes, was the place of sheep and experimental methods of increasing yield and harvest draws national attention.

A house in a more elaborate configuration "H, was south of the original in 1792, but construction has been decimated by fire in 1909.

Serving as minister of Thomas Jefferson in France 1801-1804 Chancellor Livingston negotiated the Louisiana Purchase in Paris and later jointly designed the first steamboat Robert Fulton. Making its maiden voyage from New York to Albany in 1807, has reduced the journey in less than half the time and paved the way for the Fulton Steamboat Company, and the lucrative transport of passengers and goods along the Hudson River.

After the Chancellor's eldest daughter was willed the estate received substantial completion and amendment, and rebuilt in 1920, John Henry Livingston and his wife Alice Delafield Clarkson Livingston, both in the Colonial Revival style.

Apartment is between the death of her husband and the assault of World War II, moved to the home gardener can maintain its costly maintenance, although it was usually open during holidays and special occasions.

Deeded to the State of New York in 1967, then was named a National Historic Landmark in 1973, and now appear as in the early twentieth century, when it was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Livingston and her daughters, Honoria and Janet, the last two generations have lived there.

A Visitor's Center, located just steps from the villa itself has a museum with a model of the first steamboat, souvenir shop and a library and an instructional video.

8th Completion

A visit to the village and town of Rhinebeck, with many attractions, is an immersion in historic inns, bed-and-breakfast, antiques and works of art, bold architecture and barn, such as theaters, airplanes and vintage previous century aristocratic life region, each of which increases with the blue background of the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains beyond green silhouette.

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