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A Painter’s Hudson Retreat - Olana

Olana was the eclectic home of Frederic Edwin Church and his wife Isabel. Frederic was one of the major figures in the Hudson River School of landscape painting. The mansion was designed by Mr. Church in conjunction with architect Calvert Vaux and built between 1870 and 1872. A studio wing was added in 1889.

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Commanding A Hudson River View - The Mills Mansion

Ruth Livingston Mills and Ogden Mills owned homes in Paris, Newport, Manhattan and California, but it is this 65-room Beaux-Arts Gilded Age mansion that five generations of Livingstons lived and entertained. The 40,000 square foot mansion was originally a smaller house, built in 1832 and greatly altered and expanded to what it is today.

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A Possible Site For Our Nation’s Capitol - Williamsport, MD

The Potomac River town of Williamsport was settled by General Otho Holland Williams following the American Revolution. General George Washington came to the area himself scouting the area as a possible location for out nation’s capital. The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal came to Williamsport in 1834, creating an important commercial route to Washington, D.C. and the Chesapeake Bay.

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Hyde Park - The Vanderbilt Country Home On The Hudson

In 1895, Frederick W. Vanderbilt purchased the Langdon estate, comprised of 153 acres, a structurally unsound house, a farm and 459 acres on the east side of Post Road. Hyde Park was the name of the stately home he commissioned for himself and his wife, Louise and it was built between 1896 and 1899 on approximately 600 acres. The mansion on a bluff overlooking the Hudson River in Hyde Park, N.Y., this was one of several homes owned by the couple.

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Wm. Bayard Cutting Built Me - Westbrook Farm

Westbook Farms started when William Bayard Cutting purchased the George C. Lorillard estate on the Connetiquot River in the Long Island town of Great River. Cutting was a New York City lawyer and sugar beet refiner, who made his fortune in railroads and in the development of the Red Hook, Brooklyn waterfront.

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