Monday, July 15, 2013

Day 273 July 14 Lyndhurst


 
Lyndhurst is located at 635 South Broadway in Tarrytown NY which is still in the Lower Hudson Region. The sun is shining and it is in the high 90s.   
 
Lyndhurst is clad in Sing Sing marble and was designed in two stages by Alexander Jackson Davis.  In 1838, Davis created a Gothic villa for William Paulding, a former mayor of New York City; 26 years later, he doubled the villa's size, adding a four-story tower and porte cochere for New York businessman George Merritt.  For both men, Davis also designed Gothic-style furniture, which the home's third owner, railroad magnate and stock manipulator Jay Gould, retained and complemented with furnishings of his own.
Gould's daughter, Anna, gave the estate to the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1961.  She also left enough money to maintain the estate for many years to come but her children from her first marriage sued the Historic Preservation and walked away with the money.
 



Carriage House is now the Visitor's Center
 
 
No horses or carriages
 
 
Front of the house
 
 
4-story tower
 
 
 The Hudson River view
 
 
South side of house
 
 
Stained glass windows in receiving room
 
 
Music room
 
 
Our guide
 
 
Medieval banquet hall
 
 
Two-story tall art gallery
 
 
Ceiling in one of the bedrooms
 
 
Anna's room
 
 
Master bedroom
 
 
The floor is wood
 
 
Window is interesting
 
 
One of the first bathroom where the pot is included
 
 
Quite a bathtub/shower combination
 
 
The Bear Skin Rug
 
 
Down by the Hudson River
 
We have visited the three "Absolutely must see" estates in the Lower Hudson Region.  There is so much to see and do we can see why boaters return to this area every summer.  When the Erie Canal opened New York City became the financial center and the rich came to this area for the summer.  The men commuted to the city and the women spent the summer on the Hudson.
 
 
 

 
 
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