Hudson Valley

May 2013

 
 

Our road trip with Heidi, Marshall, Karen, and Stewart to sites along the Hudson River:


  1. Union Church, Pocantico Hills (no interior photography allowed of the Chagall and Matisse stained glass windows; click here for images and commentary on a blog Trip Honey)

  2. Philipsburg Manor, Sleepy Hollow (exterior view, did not tour)

  3. Kykuit, Pocantico Hills (Rockefeller family home)

  4. FDR National Historic Site, including Springwood and Val-Kill, Hyde Park

  5. Vanderbilt Estate, Hyde Park

  6. Wilderstein, (the Suckley family home; distant cousins of FDR; Daisy Suckley was one of his companions; closed the day we were there, but we walked around the grounds)

  7. Culinary Institute of America (CIA)

  8. Clermont State Historic Site (Livingston family home)

  9. Olana (Frederic Church home and grounds)

  10. Mohonk Preserve and Mohonk Mountain House (a day hiking on the trails)

  11. Huguenot Street, New Paltz

  12. Walkway over the Hudson, Poughkeepsie to Highland

  13. Vassar College, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, with paintings by members of the Hudson River School

  14. Locust Grove Estate, home of Samuel Morse, has nice hiking trails (we arrived too late for an interior tour)

  15. Lovely dinner at Heidi’s friend Mary’s charming home and garden in Putnam Valley