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The college purchased the property from Historic Hudson Valley, the historical preservation organization that had owned Montgomery Place since the late 1980s. The addition of this property brings Bard's total campus size to nearly 1,000 acres (400 ha) along the Hudson River in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. [34]
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.
Castleton-on-Hudson is a village located in the southwestern part of the town of Schodack in Rensselaer County, New York, United States. The population was 1,473 at the 2010 census. [ 2 ] The village is southeast of Albany .
The Hudson River Park Act was passed by the New York State Legislature in June 1998, and signed by Governor George Pataki in September 1998. [86] [87] Under the terms of the act, the rebuilt Smith Park was to have been only half of the 8-acre (3.2 ha) Chelsea Waterside Park. The other half, located on the river shore on the west side of the ...
Castle Rock, also called Osborn Castle, [2] is the estate of former Illinois Central Railroad president William H. Osborn in Garrison, New York, United States. It sits on the hill of the same name, looking down on the Hudson River 620 feet (190 m) below.
Irvington, sometimes known as Irvington-on-Hudson, [3] is a suburban village in the town of Greenburgh in Westchester County, New York, United States.It's a suburb of New York City, 20 miles (32 km) north of midtown Manhattan in New York City, and is served by a station stop on the Metro-North Hudson Line.
The New York Central Railroad (reporting mark NYC) was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Midwest, along with the intermediate cities of Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Rochester and Syracuse.
Sunnyside (1835) is an 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).