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A tour guide in Rhinebeck, New York

1. Introduction and background

Located on the east side of Hudson River in Dutchess County about 100 miles north of Manhattan, Rhinebeck, accessible from the Taconic State Highway, Route 9, Route 9W and the New York State Thruway, is both a strong historic and picturesque city. She is part of the Hudson River Valley National Historic Area was established in 1996 by Congress to recognize, preserve, protect and interpret the nationally significant history and resources of the valley to the benefit of the nation, stretching from Yonkers to Albany.

Founded in 1686, while the Gerrit Dutch Artsen, Arie Roosa, Jan Elting and Henrick Kip sold 2,200 acres of land with six Indians in the town of Esopus (Kingston) and the tribes Sopaseo (Rhinebeck) was originally designated "Kipsbergen." In 1713, Judge Henry Beekman refers to these lands as "Ryn Beck" for the first time.

One of the largest districts in the country with 437 historic sites inscribed on the National Historic Register, the village of Rhinebeck and greater nucleic around the town of Rhinebeck, represent mid-span of 16 kilometers which includes the 30 contiguous riparian areas associated with the landed aristocracy of the region over the centuries 18, 19 and 20.

Often described as "picturesque village" and the jewel "of the Hudson, which offers many nearby attractions on foot, as antique shops, art galleries, bed-and-breakfasts, inns and restaurants, often housed in historic buildings.

The signature and the mainstay of the village is the arm Beekman, the oldest of America continuously operating inn inscribed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its origins date back to 1766 when Arent moved successfully Traphagan the structure of its parent Bogard wood and solid stone – built to protect against Indian attacks – at the crossroads town recently named Ryn Beck, finally used the Mecca of the revolutionary, often host people like George Washington, Benedict Arnold and Alexander Hamilton. When the British burned it, then the state capital, Kingston, just across the Hudson, people sought refuge here.

Purchased in 1802 by Asa Potter, who later served several papers, including city hall, theater, post office, and newspapers.

Renovated, expanded and renamed its current "Beekman Arms" nickname Albums by Tracy secondary owner, served as the inspiration for the novel by Thomas Wolfe, the time and the river, after frequent visits here and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in nearby Hyde Park, at the initiative of four successful campaigns for governor and presidential form before his very porch.

The complex much greater supply of places to visit, restaurants and accommodation, amid a preserved colonial atmosphere.

The Beekman Arms Tavern, located on the ground floor is decorated with dark woods, brick fireplace and hardwood floors wide and is divided into Colonial Tap Room, a garden greenhouse and several separate dining rooms.

The upper floors contain the carefully restored and elegant guesthouse rooms in 1766, even if housing is available in many affiliates. Amid walls brick and high ceilings, for example, guests can stay at the fire station in the town of origin, while the Townsend House, which opened its doors in 2004, has the design and architecture influenced by other structures of historic Rhinebeck. The guest house, located behind the main house offers a cost smaller motel style rooms.

Delameter The Inn, designed in 1844 by Alexander Jackson Davis and an example of Carpenter Gothic architecture America, is one block north of the Beekman Arms, and is part of a complex of seven guest house around a courtyard. Many rooms have fireplaces.

Rhinebeck offers many attractions. The Fair Dutchess County, for example, organizes events such as the Dutchess County Fair, Rhinebeck Antiques Fair, craft fair in Rhinebeck, and the Iroquois Festival, while the Center for the Performing Arts in Rhinebeck offers live classical, theater, music and entertainment for children with local theater companies, but also includes the names of national and international talent. Like a large barn to complete the rural landscape and to pay tribute to the origins of the external action, which replaced the temporary store performance that season occurred between 1994 and 1997, opening in July next year and become a place throughout the year in 1999.

Several principles of aviation architecture and historic sites around the city immediately, most of which offer breathtaking views of the Hudson River and beyond the Catskills.

2. Museum of Rhinebeck History

Located 3.5 km north of the village of Rhinebeck on Route 9, Rhinebeck History Museum, located in the historic home of Quitman, was founded in 1992 "to promote understanding and appreciation Rhinebeck history through the collection, preservation, exhibition and interpretation of important documents in Rhinebeck "in through letters, books, magazines, clothing, furniture, photographs, postcards, and artifacts. Open from mid June to October 31, has two annual exhibitions, the previous ones who have been called "The First Century," "Civil War", "The Guilded Age", "World War", " The Roosevelt years, "World War" and "early Rhinebeck Industries, among others.

Quitman House, marking the area first settlement of the city, was built in 1798 as a parsonage for the congregation of the proximity to the old Church of the Rev. Frederick H. Stone Quitman, which had served the Lutheran congregation of more than three decades.

Henry Beekman, who had established 35 Palatine German families in the region in early 1700, had most of the land by royal grant, and developed the nascent community around a single log church until the 19th century, when trade took root three miles south in a town called "The Flatts."

3. Wilderstein

Located two kilometers through the old town of Rhinebeck, Wilderstein, the name of The petroglyph of a figure holding a peace pipe in his right hand and an ax in his left hand in Suckley Cove, translates as "wild rock 'German, and was selected a Italianast villa when it was built in 1852. Home to three generations of the Suckley family, was expanded considerably in 1888 with two floors, a tower and a terrace, so the design house of Queen Anne, overlooking the Hudson River, it is today.

The interior retains all its original wall sculptures, furniture, artwork, collections, books, and the windows of its expansion in 1888, and the ground floor, designed by Joseph Tifany Burr, has a dark, house panels, fireplace, library, dining room, kitchen and two lounges.

Calvert Vaux and his son, who was hired in 1890 to the design of the outdoor scenery in a romantic style, was already a long list of similar projects, including other areas of the Hudson River and Prospect Park and Central Park New York, and ordered 1,091 shrubs and 41 trees from a local nursery for the project Rhinebeck Wilderstein. The region, very little from its original size, now consisting of 40 acres and three miles of trails.

Margaret (Daisy) Suckley, a close friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the last to survive, he sold the mansion and its land to conservation Wilderstein in 1983, is not for profit institution of education. Today is enrolled in the National Register Historic Places.

4. Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome

Located in the small, easily lost Norton Road on the east side Hudson River, near the village of Rhinebeck same old Rhinebeck Aerodrome has a time portal to the fields of grass and fabric covered aircraft represent the first "push" aviation a century ago.

own seed had been planted at Cole Palen, after obtaining driver's cell powertrain and the shape of the missing Roosevelt School of Aviation in Long Island, the acquisition of six aircraft for sale by its museum to leave the area until the Roosevelt Field mall.

After of storage in a barn on the abandoned farm in Rhinebeck Palenzuela, the six planes, including a 1917 SPAD XII, 1918 Standard J-1, an Avro 504K, 1914, a 1918 Curtiss Jenny, a 1918 Sopwith 7F1 Snipe and 1918 Aeromarine 39B, submitted its initial fleet and "the runway was 1000 feet long, clearing rocks, swamps drained called "track" and a building used as a crude "covered" in a plot of farmland, which had subsequently acquired. acquisition additional equipment and parts thereof expanded programming mostly biplane, after an extensive restoration and reconstruction.

Three metal deposits Quonset as cabin, built between 1963 and 1964 and located on a small hill above the main parking lot dirt and grass, the home of Pioneer First World War and Lindbergh era aircraft today, facing a new museum and a small gift shop. However, the airport itself, on the other side of Norton Road is accessible by bridge wooden shed serves over the garden gate, but as time portal it was overwhelming to aviation, a historical dimension somehow arrested and maintained over time beyond its borders.

Perches, as if unaware of the calendar, proudly facing the wind, with names like Albatros Werke, Farnborough Royal Aircraft Factory, AV Roe and Company, Ltd., and Fokker. But the multitude of mono-, bi-and triplane is the fiercest battle with current-time design.

The current schedule for the air show, which runs from mid June to mid-October, features "history of aviation" seen Saturday, with the pioneering aircraft as the Bleriot XI, D Curtiss "Pusher", and Henriot, while "War World "show on Sunday includes models such as the albatross, the Avro 504K, Caudron G III, the Curtiss JN-4D Jenny, Fokker D. VII, Fokker Dr.I, the Nieuport II, the Sopwith Camel, the SPAD VII, Davis Havviland D1W Tiger Moth, and the Great Lakes 2T-1R. Four-passenger biplane rides new standard D-25 are given before and after performances, while the public can admire the fleet, either in stores or on the grass of the airfield, while lunch at the picnic tables at the airfield canteen.

volunteers public, athletes Victorian, Edwardian, and clothing, 1920, fashion offer after individual change from the airfield, mounted on tracks, van red tail, often transported in vehicles to the audience as a time of Renault, 1909, a 1916 Studebaker and a 1914 Model T Speedster. Period ending on the scene Music.

The air show, which contained only treetops sprint at the top of the plane before Now relandings pioneer in the grass, otherwise provide the most spectacular moves of the First World War, Lindbergh era designs, including acrobatics, combat, bombings, pop the balloon, parachute, and "Delsey readers."

5. Montgomery Place

Designed by Alexander Jackson Davis Set in a landscape influenced by Andrew Jackson Downing, Montgomery Place, located on Route 9G in Annandale-on-Hudson, is an ornate renaissance, classical, architectural heritage This reflects both the life of Private Hudson Valley real and almost 200 years of family ownership and imprint.

Tracing its origins to 1802, when 59 years old, Janet Livingston Montgomery had purchased an area of 242 acres to establish a farm business and build a house called the "Castle of Montgomery" in honor of her husband, Gen. Richard Montgomery, first-served basis to live and work.

Ready at the end of an alley a half-mile long-leaf trees expires, the Federal style stucco home ground became the center of the orchards, gardens, nurseries and greenhouses, flowers and trees had been sent to exotic areas of the world, including magnolia, yellow jasmine, orange, mango and England and Italy in Europe and Antigua in the Caribbean. The successful company always Seeds and fruit trees to local farmers.

While the succession had been planned for the heirs of General Montgomery, his death was forced earlier to yield to his younger brother, Edward Livingston, whose career in public service positions was as mayor of New York, the U.S. representative and senator from Louisiana, Secretary of State and Minister of Finance in the government of Andrew Jackson.

Louis Livingston, his widow, and Coralie Livingston Barton, daughter, household name "Montgomery Place" used widely as a summer house and change its architecture and the landscape for a period of 40 years. The agricultural and grazing lands, particularly raised garden terrace adorned with flowers and formal, and the aesthetics of the property have been strengthened with trails in the sequence of the highlands Mata rustic benches, gardens, orchards, and a botanical garden consisting of beeches leaves, cucumber magnolia, red oak, sweetgum, tulip Virginia, white oak, hemlock, weeping Sargent, cherry blossoms, love oak, black locust, and sycamore trees. These monoliths od 150 years of nature can still enjoy today while walking toward the visitor center and the royal household.

Based on the style of Alexander Jackson Davis, the greatest American architect of the Romantic movement, the house itself has been redesigned with porches, wings, and railings during a two-phase process that began in 1842 and later in 1860, rekindling with them, that is today.

Author Andrew Jackson Downing, the landscape is so prominent and co-owner of a nursery in Newburgh, New York, provided entrance to the gardens, statues, hiking trails and water features.

After a decline after the Civil War, during which the property had been occupied by family, General John Ross Delafield, Livingston descendant and lawyer from New York, he has inherited, and his wife, Violet White Delafield, herself a botanist, has increased landscape with the introduction of the rose garden rooms, herbs and perennials, a wild garden with an artificial stream and an ellipse with an indoor aquatic plants.

In 1986, the descendants Delafield transmitted as Montgomery Place, its 424 hectares of land, and part of the village of Annandale, in Sleepy Hollow Restorations (more Historic Hudson Valley later called) to ensure its restoration and conservation. Now is a National Historic Site monument was reopened to the public two years later.

6. Bard College

Just a little further north, and immediately off Route 9G Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson. The merger of two historic estates, the liberal arts, residential campus, located on 500 acres of fields and forests along the river, has a network of roads and trails walking in wooded areas along the Saw Kill Power and Hudson River, Catskill Mountains, where the increase is visible.

Founded in 1860 by John Bard in the direction of the City of New York Episcopal Church and originally called Colegio de San Esteban, who used some of the properties of the bard in Riverside, Annandale, and Chapel of the Holy Innocents, both of whom won, to teach a classical program of preparation for those who want to enter the seminary.

The transition to a more secular largest institution in 1919, which incorporates both natural science courses and social in its program for the first time, and a decade later the undergraduate school of Columbia University. Increasingly focused on the liberal arts, has officially adopted the "Bard College" name 1934 and ten years later became a mixed, cutting ties with Colombia.

In 1960, the program included a very broad science, art, art history, sculpture and anthropology, and attracted a much larger student population and faculty. A department of the film was presented.

His graduate program in the first place, the Milton Avery School of the Arts, was created in 1981, and in the summer of 1990, the Bard Music Festival, created to provide an assessment deeper repertoire of renowned composers, has been introduced, focusing on labor and the artist of another era and became the modern world, ceiling metal, Frank O. Gehry designed Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts in 2003. bold architecture, innovative structure, offers tours during the day and the camera orchestra, jazz music, theater, music, dance and opera by American and international artists during the night, is divided into three sites. The Sosnoff Theater, with a moat the orchestra, balcony and two sections, seating 900, while teaching theater Two adjustable sports seats, bleachers and a type of semi-fly tower with a parade fashion. The Felicitas S. Thorne Dance Studio serves as a classroom and the room Repeat.

7. Clermont State Historic Site

The 500 acres Clermont State Historic Site, north of the city and off Route 9G Tivoli, was the seat of the politically and socially Livingston family, whose seven generations both a house and land in a period of 230 years.

The buildings renewed until 1728, when Robert Livingston, Jr. has acquired 13,000 hectares of land along the Hudson River from his father, the first lord of Livingston Manor, which had owned the second unit of private land in colonial New York, and built a brick Georgian house between 1730 and 1750, he named French for "clear mountain" or "Clermont," after Catskill peak visible before him.

When his only son, Robert P. Livingston, who later married Margaret Beekman, who herself had been the heir to vast tracts of land, greatly expanded the boundaries of the property. His son, the elder, and Robert. R. Livingston, Jr., was an important and highly influential as one of the Committee of Five, drafted the Declaration of Independence, was the first U.S. Foreign Secretary, especially as Secretary of State and Chancellor of New York under the title he gave inauguration of George Washington as first president of the nation.

Due to family involvement Livingston at the promotion of independence, British troops burned the house and specifically in the autumn of 1777, but Margaret Beekman Livingston, who had succeeded, was rebuilt during the period of three years between 1779 and 1782.

Developed for agricultural purposes, was the site of the sheep and experimental methods to increase crop yields, to attract national attention.

A more elaborate home in the form of "H" configuration, was built south of the original in 1792, but was decimated by fire in 1909.

Serving as minister of Thomas Jefferson in France from 1801 to 1804, the Chancellor Livingston negotiated the Louisiana Purchase in Paris, and later co-designed the first steamboat Robert Fulton in the world. Making its maiden voyage from New York in Albany in 1807, reduced travel ground to less than half the time and paved the way for the Fulton Steamboat Company and lucrative transport passengers and cargo along the Hudson River.

After the chancellor wanted eldest daughter, the farm has received more and modification, and in the 1920's, John Henry Livingston and his wife, Alice Delafield Clarkson Livingston, who renewed the neo-colonialism.

Accommodation between the death of her husband and the assault of the Second World War, then moved to the house of the gardener unable to maintain its costly maintenance, it is generally open during holidays and special occasions.

Transferred from the State of New York in 1967 It was then designated a national historic site in 1973 and appears today as it did in the 20 th century, when it was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Livingston and her daughters, Honoria and Janet, the last two generations have lived there.

A visitor center, located just steps from the royal house, a museum with a model of the first steamboat, a shop and a bookstore and a movie introduction.

8. Conclusion

A visit to the village and the town of Rhinebeck, with many important sites, is an immersion in the historic inns, bed & breakfast, antiques and works of art and striking architecture and theater type barn Aviation period, and real-century aristocratic former life in the region, all with the backdrop of blue Hudson River and the silhouettes of Green increased the Catskill Mountains beyond.

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