Hudson River Valley estates

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The Hudson River Valley estates are a series of grand 19th-century country houses and landscaped grounds along New York’s Hudson River, celebrated for their picturesque scenery and influential role in American landscape design.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural landscape
group of country houses
historic district
architecturalStyle Beaux-Arts
Gothic Revival
Greek Revival
Hudson River Bracketed
Italianate
associatedWith American elite families
Astor family
Hudson River School
Livingston family
Rockefeller family
Vanderbilt family
country United States
developedDuring Gilded Age
antebellum period
hasPart Boscobel
Clermont
Kykuit
Locust Grove
linked to: Locust Grove Estate

Lyndhurst
linked to: Lyndhurst Mansion

Mills Mansion
Montgomery Place
Morrison estate at Sleepy Hollow
Olana
Philipse Manor Hall vicinity estates
Springwood
Staatsburgh State Historic Site
Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site
Wilderstein
influenced American landscape architecture
country place era estate design in the United States
landscapeDesignFeatures formal gardens
ornamental plantings
river overlooks
terraced lawns
wooded drives
landscapeDesignInfluences English picturesque tradition
Romanticism
locatedAlong Hudson River
locatedIn Hudson River Valley
linked to: Hudson Valley

New York State
notableFor grand 19th-century country houses
influential role in American landscape design
landscaped grounds
picturesque scenery
partOf Hudson River National Heritage Area
period 19th century
tourismAttraction architectural tourism
heritage tourism
landscape tourism

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Ferncliff estate partOf Hudson River estates tradition
linked to: Hudson River Valley estates
Blithewood (earlier design) partOf Hudson River valley residences by Alexander Jackson Davis
linked to: Hudson River Valley estates
Woodlea estate partOf Hudson River Valley estates