A Guide to Rhinebeck, New York

1. Introduction and history

Located on the east side of the Hudson River in Dutchess County about 100 miles north of Manhattan, Rhinebeck, on the Taconic State Parkway, Route 9, Route 9W and the New York State Thruway is accessed, it is a picturesque historic village and intense. It is part of the Hudson River Valley National Historic Area, which was founded in 1996 by Congress to recognize, preserve, protect and interpret the nationally significant history and resourcesthe valley for the good of the nation, and extends from Yonkers to Albany.

Founded in 1686, as artsen Dutch Gerrit Arie Roosa, Jan Elting and Henrick Kip 2,200 hectares of land with six local Indians of Esopus (Kingston) and Sopaseo (Rhinebeck) tribes was replaced at first as "Kipsbergen. Judge Henry Beekman in 1713 pointed out this land as "Ryn Beck" for the first time.

One of the largest historic districts in the nation with 437 sites listed inthe National Historic Register, the village of Rhinebeck nucleic acid and the largest, which surrounds the town of Rhinebeck, include half of section 30 of the 16 miles of the river adjacent to the landed gentry of the region during the stand will include 18, 19 and early the 20 Century.

Often called "a picturesque village" and the "jewel of the Hudson," which offers hiking nearby attractions such as antique shops, art galleries, bed-and-breakfasts, inns andRestaurants, mostly located in historic buildings.

Signature and concrete in the country, is listed on the Beekman Arms, America's oldest continuously operating inn in the National Register of Historic Places. The roots to 1766 when his father Arent Traphagen successfully moved Bogardos sturdy stone and wood structure - designed to protect against Indian attacks - at the intersection of the newly appointed village Ryn Beck, who ultimately served as a mecca forRevolutionary, often hosting great musicians like George Washington, Benedict Arnold and Alexander Hamilton. Then, when the British burned Kingston City, is located on the Hudson, people have sought refuge here.

Purchased in 1802 by Asa Potter, was later published several roles, including city hall, theater, post office and newspapers.

Renovated, expanded and renamed to its current "Beekman Arms", a nickname derived from the owner Durs Tracy served as the inspiration forThomas Wolfe's novel of the time and the river, after the frequent visits here, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, comes from the nearby Hyde Park, has led all four of his successful conduct of elections and the election campaign as governor of his very porch .

The much larger group provides routes for sightseeing, restaurants and hotels, in the midst of a protected area, colonial atmosphere.

The Tavern at the Beekman Arms, the ground floor is furnished with dark wood, cut a huge brickFireplace and wide hardwood floors, and is divided into Colonial Tap Room, a winter garden and several separate dining area.

The upper floors contain the original Inn meticulously restored and elegantly furnished in 1766, even if the property involved in numerous structures. Among exposed brick walls and high ceilings, for example, can keep guests in the village to the original fire station, while the Townsend house, which opened in 2004 and offers the design andArchitecture influenced by other historic structures Rhinebeck. The Guest House, located behind the main building, inn, offers lower costs, motel style.

The Delaware Inn meters, designed in 1844 by Alexander Jackson Davis and an example of American Carpenter Gothic architecture, is one block north of the Beekman Arms, and is part of a complex of seven companies, which surrounds a courtyard. Many rooms have fireplaces.

Rhinebeck is a lot of activities. The Dutchess CountyExhibition Centre, for example, are events such as the Dutchess County Fair, which offers Rhinebeck Antiques Fair, the Code-themed crafts and Iroquos Rhinebeck Festival, and the Center for the Performing Arts in Rhinebeck live classical music, theater, musicals and shows for children presented local theater groups, even if the national and international talent should contain. Similar to honor a giant barn to complement the surrounding rural landscape and the origins of paySummer camps have been replaced, the temporary tent, where the seasonal appearances between 1994 and 1997, opening in July of the following year and an event for the whole year in 1999.

Many aviation pioneers and historical architectural sites around the city immediately, most of which offer splendid views of the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains beyond.

2. Museum of Rhinebeck History

Located 3.5 miles north of the village of Rhinebeck on Route 9, whichMuseum of the History of Rhinebeck, Quitman is located in the historical house was established in 1992 through letters, books, magazines, "the understanding and appreciation of Rhinebeck History of the collection, storage, display and interpretation of materials to significantly promote Rhinebeck, clothing, furniture, photographs, postcards and artifacts. Open from mid June to October 31, offers two annual exhibitions, above, who have been called "The First Century," "The CivilWar, "" The Golden Age "," World War "," Roosevelt Years "," World War II "and" Early Industries Rhinebeck, among others.

The built Quitman House, which marks the first settlement area of the city was in 1798 as canonical by the parishioners of the nearby Old Stone Church by the Rev. Frederick H. Quitman, the Lutheran congregation was more than three decades ago.

Henry Beekman, the Palatine, the 35 German families had settled in the area in early 1700, hadwhere much of the country's royal grant, and develop the emerging community of turn one church to record up to 19 century, when the South had taken root Commerce 3 miles in the village called The Flatts. "

3. Wildenstein

Located half past two miles from the center Rhinebeck, the petroglyphs of stone after Wilder numbers that peace pipe in his right hand and a tomahawk in his left hand in Suckley Cove, translated as "wild man of rock"from German and had a modest villa Italianast when it was built in 1852. Home to three generations of the Suckley family had increased significantly in 1888, with two upper floors and the tower and a veranda, which makes the elaborate Queen Anne-style villa overlooking the Hudson River is today.

The interior retains its original wall sculptures, furniture, art projects, collections of books and stained glass from its 1888-extension and ground floor,Tifany Joseph Burr, has a dark, heavily paneled foyer, a fireplace, a library, a dining room, kitchen and two living rooms.

Calvert Vaux and his son in 1890 had ordered that outdoor landscape in the romantic style design, already a long list of similar services, including other Hudson River stands and Prospect Park and Central Park in New York, and ordered 1,091 shrubs and 41 trees from a Rhinebeck local nursery for the project Wildenstein. The area, strongreduced from its original size, now covers 40 acres and three miles of hiking trails.

Margaret (Daisy) Suckley, a close friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the last to survive, had the villa and its reasons for the conservation of wild stone surrendered in 1983, not for a non-profit educational institution. It is currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

4. Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome

The small, easily missed Norton Road is not located on the eastern side of the Hudson Riveraway from the village of Rhinebeck Aerodrome Old Rhinebeck itself is a portal of time, fields of grass and fabric aircraft, representing the first "children" of aviation a century ago.

His own seed has been planted, as Cole Palen is collecting his cell and license the engine to form the now defunct Roosevelt Aviation School on Long Island, the museum has purchased six aircraft offered for sale to clear the area for commercial Roosevelt Field nextMall

After storage in an abandoned chicken coop on a farm in Rhinebeck Palen, the six planes, the SPAD XII 1917, including 1918 Standard J-1, a 1914 Avro 504K, a Curtiss Jenny, 1918, a Sopwith 7F1 Snipe 1918 and 1918 Aeromarine 39B , had its first fleet and the "airport" was 1,000 meters long, stony, well drained swamp of compensation as a "track" and a crude building serves as "Hangar" is formed on a piece of land that had purchased later. Moreacquisitions of aircraft and parts thereof, as double-decker had expanded the lineup after considerable restoration and reconstruction.

Three metal Quonset hut as hangar between 1963 and 1964 and is located at the top of a small hill above the main dirt road and parking lot grass, Pioneer Home, the first world war, built and Lindbergh era aircraft today, new front of a museum and gift shop conditioning small. But the same airport, in addition to Norton Road, accessed by a wooden deckBridge, which serves more than one entry to the area, but as the time the portal was barnstorming aviation, a historical dimension and somehow over time they are arrested outside its borders.

The hook as if nothing of the calendar, proud to defy the wind, with names such as Albatros Works, Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough, AV Roe and Company, Ltd., and Fokker. But it is the large number of mono-, bi-and three-storey, which grapples with the most violenthis present-time concept.

The current Air Show, which runs from mid June to mid-October, the "History of Flight" exhibition on Saturday, with a cutting edge aircraft such as the Blériot XI, the Curtiss D Pusher "and the Hanriot during the second World War I exhibition 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, the Nieuport, the Sopwith Camel, SPAD VII, D1W Davis, de2T Havviland Tiger Moth, and the Great Lakes-1R.

biplane rides in a four-person New Standard D-25 are before and after the shows, where viewers can watch as the fleet is in stores or on the runway of grass dining tables, outdoor table at the airport.

Audience volunteers, sport, Victorian, Edwardian and 1920 offer apparel, fashion shows, after the change in Singles airport tracked, food red, often transported in the past viewersVintage vehicles, such as a 1909 Renault, a 1916 Studebaker and a 1914 Model T Speedster. Period music completes the scene.

The air show that high treetop sprint only plane pioneered relandings direct the function of the step, otherwise offer dramatic maneuvers of World War I and Lindbergh era styles, including acrobatics, aerial combat, bombing, balloon bursting, Delsey units and paratroopers. "

5. Montgomery Place

Designed by AlexanderJackson Davis and a landscape by Andrew Jackson Downing affected, Montgomery Place, is from Route 9G in Annandale-on-Hudson, an ornate, classical revival architectural landmark of the city, which is kept Hudson Valley almost 200 years print life and family.

The roots to 1802, when 59 years, Janet Livingston Montgomery had bought a 242 acres to create a farm and built a house called "Chateau deMontgomery "to her husband, General Richard Montgomery honor, first served basis as where to live and work.

Poised at the end of a half-mile long avenue of deciduous trees, the Federal-style fieldstone house was stucco is at the center of the gardens, orchards, nurseries and greenhouses, and flowers and trees go yellow from exotic regions of the world, including magnolia, jasmine, orange and mango from England and Italy in Europe and Antigua in the Caribbean. L 'prosperous society provided fruit trees and seed to local farmers.

Even if the property had been earmarked for the heirs of General Montgomery, has forced the former to death his younger brother, Edward Livingston, whose public service career includes positions as mayor of New York was the U.S. representative and senator Louisiana Secretary of State and Finance in the transfer Andrew Jackson administration.

Louis Livingston, his widow, and CoralieLivingston Barton, her daughter, renamed the building "Montgomery Place", with him in the summer residence and global change for its architectural features and landscaping for a period of 40 years. The yard and pasture, especially, wore formal flower gardens and a winter garden decorated with aesthetic properties and hiking trails, saw Kill Stream, rustic benches, improved orchards and an arboretum with purple-leaved beech, cucumber included magnolias,Red oak, sweet gum, Liriodendron, White Oak, Sargent weeping hemlock, flowering dogwood, Amur Corktree, locust and sycamore trees. This monolith of 150 years-or may continue to enjoy during the walk from the visitor center and the royal palace are.

was based on the style of Alexander Jackson Davis, then the greatest American architect of the Romantic movement, the same house with porches, wings, and railing redesigned during a two-step process that beganin 1842 and during the year 1860, making it the classical revival as it is today.

Andrew Jackson Downing, landscape and writer first and co-owner of a nursery school in Newburgh, New York, provided input to the garden, statues, walking paths and water features.

After a decline in post-civil war, were occupied during which relatives of the property was inherited by General John Ross Delafield, a descendant of Livingston and New York law, he and his wife, Violetta WhiteDelafield, himself a botanist, he rose again the landscape through the introduction of the garden room with roses, herbs, shrubs and a wild garden with an artificial stream, and secure an ellipse with a pool of water plants.

promoted to the title in 1986 Delafield descendants in Montgomery Place, just 424 hectares of land and part of the village of Annandale, Sleepy Hollow restorations (later renamed Historic Hudson Valley), to ensure their restoration and preservation. Now a national historicLandmark, reopened to the public after two years.

6. Bard College

A short distance further north and once from Route 9G in Annandale-on-Hudson, Bard College. A merger of two historic buildings, the liberal arts, residential campus, with more than 500 acres of meadows and forest along the river, has a set of paths for walking and hiking in wooded areas along the river Saw Kill and Hudson River, where the growing CatskillThe mountains are visible.

Founded in 1860, Church of John Bard, in collaboration with the leadership of the Episcopal Conference of New York City and the aforementioned St. Stephens College, has used some of the property's riverside Bard, Annandale, and the Chapel of the Holy Innocents, which donated to both, a classic that preparatory curriculum for the beginning of the seminar, and teaching.

The transition to a broader secular institute in 1919, dividing both natural and social sciences coursesin the curriculum for the first time, and a decade later became a pupil of the school of Columbia University. Increasingly, the humanities, have officially adopted the "Bard College in 1934 and ten years as a coeducational institution, broke off relations with Colombia.

To 1960 were among the extensive science curriculum, art, art history, sculpture and anthropology, and has a much broader base of students and teachers. A Film Departmentintroduced.

His undergraduate degree in the first place, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts was founded in 1981, and by the summer of 1990, the Bard Music Festival, created by composer a deeper understanding of the repertoire of the famous, was introduced, with particular attention to the work of another artist and was presented in modern, with metal roof, Frank O. Gehry-designed Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in 2003. The architecturally bold, innovative structure,offers guided tours during the day and chamber orchestra, jazz, theater, musicals, dance and opera performances of American and international artists in the course of the evening is divided into three branches. The Sosnoff Theater, with an orchestra pit and two sections of balcony seats 900, while the indicator Theatre Two adjustable sports seats and a bleacher-type semi-fly tower with a walkway. The Felicitas S. Thorne Dance Studio serves as a classroom and testingHall.

7. Clermont State Historic Site

The 500 hectares of Clermont State Historic Site, north of town off Route 9G Tivoli, was the seat of the politically and socially prominent Livingston family, seven generations, both in the form of houses and land over a period of 230 years.

The property has pointed out in 1728 when Robert Livingston, Jr. purchased 13,000 acres of land along the Hudson River from his father, the first Lord of Livingston Manor, which had owned the second largestintestinal tract of private land in colonial New York and built a brick Georgian mansion, 1730-1750, baptism of the French name "mountain" or "Clermont," after the Catskill peaks visible from him.

When his only son, Robert P. Livingston, and Margaret Beekman, married, had been the heir to vast expanses of the country, has greatly expanded throughout the property. They, and the eldest son, Robert. R. Livingston, Jr., was an important andhighly influential figure, that a Committee of Five, wrote the Declaration of Independence, served as first secretary of State, as State Secretary and the Chancellor of New York, under the title gave the oath of office 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,he had, was rebuilt during the period 1779-1782.

Developed for agricultural purposes, was the site of sheep and methods of collecting experimental efficiency and attracting increasing national attention.

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

Serving as minister to France Thomas Jefferson 1801-1804, Chancellor LivingstonNegotiating the Louisiana Purchase in Paris and then set the first steamship in the world designed by Robert Fulton. Making its maiden voyage from New York to Albany in 1807, has cut the journey by land to less than half the time and the way in the direction of the Fulton Steamboat Company, and the lucrative transport of passengers and goods along the Hudson River.

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

Apartment is in her husband's death and the onslaught of World War II, he moved to the home gardener, unable to maintain its costly maintenance, although it was generally open during holidays and special occasions.

Deeded to the State of New York in 1967, there was also a National Historic Landmark in 1973 identified, and now appearsas early in the 20th Century, when Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Livingston and her daughters, Honoria and Janet, the last two generations had been occupied for living there.

A Visitor's Center, located just steps from the royal palace, a museum with a model steamboat in the first place, a gift shop and library, and an introductory video.

8. Conclusion

A visit to the village and town of Rhinebeck, along with many major attractions, is an immersion inhistoric inns, bed-and-breakfast, antiques and works of art, drama and daring architectural barn, vintage airplanes and the former residence century aristocratic life in the region, each of which increases with the blue background of the Hudson River and green shapes of the Catskill Mountains beyond.