Map & Guide Series

Landscapes and Gardens

in the Hudson River Valley

Hudson River Valley

National Heritage Area, New York
www.hudsonrivervalley.com

he spirit of the Hudson River Valley lives not only in art and legend but also
in the delicate balance of natural and human forces that have shaped the land.
Together they create a special place where gardens and landscapes are both
inspired and inspiring. Here you will find the views and vision that stimulated a national
artistic movement, a model for land conservation practices, and historic gardens that
shaped the American landscape design profession.

Garden and landscape photos by Mick Hales unless otherwise credited

Kykuit, the Rockefeller familys Gilded-Age landscape at Sleepy Hollow

The Natural Environment

Millions of years of dynamic geologic
forces have stimulated human encounters
with the landscape. The mountains,
valleys, ridges, and plateaus framing the
Hudson River create one of the most
spectacular landscape settings in the world.
Since the beginning of its exploration,
the valley environment has cast its spell
upon those who ventured here. Henry
Hudson arrived in 1609 seeking a northern passage to Asia but found instead a
pleasant Land to see. Two centuries later,
Washington Irving described a walk
along the Hudson as a continual reverie.
Others could not escape the Hudson
River Valleys bewitching effect. The
published journals of European travelers
following the American Grand Tour drew

Manitoga, a celebration of nature restored, Garrison

Romanticism and
A.J. Downing
Inspired by the valleys
natural scenery, artists,
writers, poets, and landscape gardeners of the
19th century developed
an American version of
Romanticism. They favored A.J. Downing
simplicity, naturalism, and
emotion over 18th-century preferences
for classicism, order, and rationale.
A native of the Hudson River Valley,
Andrew Jackson Downing was the most
influential landscape gardening expert in
19th-century America. He wrote dozens
of articles for horticultural magazines
and in 1841 published his first book,
A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of
Landscape Gardening, a rejection of the

Working Landscapes

countless visitors to the valleys natural

wonders. English social reformer Harriet
Martineau gazed upon the Hudson in

Early land-use patterns shaped landscape gardening practices in the Hudson

River Valley. The same land that the
American Indians cleared for cultivation
would one day become open space
features of the regions foreground vistas.

Fieldstone walls crisscrossing the landscape, acres of orchards like those

marking the entrance to Montgomery
Place in Annandale-on-Hudson and
large farming fields now preserved
as open space recall the valleys rich
agricultural heritage and how it shapes
the way we experience the land.

transcendental delight: I experienced

a sensation which I have often heard of,
but never quite believed in; the certainty
that one has awakened in another world.
These mystic qualities in the natural
environment remain today at the heart
of the regions distinctive landscapes
and gardens.

Boscobel, a Romantic and classically inspired

landscape in Garrison Charles Lyle

well-ordered European-style gardens

in favor of picturesque gardens.
Gracefully written and handsomely
illustrated, this book became an
immediate success, and Downings
principles established a national style
for landscapes and gardens in harmony
with nature.
Downing had a profound influence on
Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert
Vaux, designers of Central Park in New
York City as well as other important
parks across the country. As a tribute to
their mentor, Olmsted and Vaux created
a park in Downings name for Newburgh.

Settlement patterns followed early

agricultural developments and natural
landforms. In the 1700s, roads were
laid down, buildings constructed, and
forests substantially cleared for agriculture
and timber. These early developments
established the spatial organization and
circulation patterns that helped shape
landscape gardening in the 1800s.

Poets Walk (above), a picturesque landscape at Barrytown

Montgomery Place (far left), a Romantic landscaped view
of the Hudson River, Annandale-on-Hudson
Stonecrop (left), a contemporary masterwork in Cold Spring

Mohonk Mountain House, formal gardens in a

natural setting, Gardiner

Vanderbilt Mansion, a country place era

landscape in Hyde Park

Albany Rural Cemetery, an example of a

19th-century picturesque cemetery, Menands

The Country Place Era

Romantic landscapes are still a prominent

feature of the regions character. They
exist in the wisteria vine-clad walls of
Irvings cottage at Sunnyside, the vistas to
waters edge from the Vanderbilt
Mansion in Hyde Park, and
the views crafted from the
landscape by artist
Frederic E. Church at
Olana in Hudson. I can
make more and better
landscapes in this way,
Church said, than by
tampering with canvas and
paint in the studio.

The architectural relationship between

house and garden is brilliantly demonstrated by Francis Hoppins
terraced garden for
Blithewood at Annandaleon-Hudson and Beatrix
Farrands walled garden
at Bellefield in Hyde Park.
The garden at Wethersfield
in Amenia is a modern
example of this strict
While landscapes essentially maintained
Beatrix Farrand
adherence to order and
their Romantic character, gardens built
symmetry. The clipped arborvitae walls,
between 1890 and 1940 were more structured to complement palatial houses built reflecting pools, marble ornament, and
statuary are trademark features of country
by American millionaires. Terracing and
place gardening design.
axial arrangements are typical features
among gardens associated with the strict
symmetry of the eras formal architecture.
Rising industrial fortunes during the
decades following the Civil War paved
the way for new patterns of landscape
gardening rooted in country and resort
life. Family names like Rockefeller,
Vanderbilt, and Astor were behind
the second celebration of landscape
gardening in the Hudson River Valley.

Calvert Vaux
Collection of the New-York Historical Society

Frederick Law Olmsted

Innisfree, a blending of graceful Asian art forms, Millbrook

portrait by

Washington Irvings Sunnyside, a Romantic

landscape at Tarrytown. Historic Hudson Valley

Masters and Masterworks

The Hudson River Valley possesses garden and
landscape styles that represent changes in American
tastes over a 200-year period. The valley is a treasury
of pioneering gardening design for the region and
the nation.

Beauty in the Balance

Downings influence was preceded by that of Andr
Parmentier, one of the first professional designers
working in the United States. The pleasure grounds he
designed for Dr. David Hosack at Hyde Park survive
largely intact at Vanderbilt Mansion.

For over 200 years, the arts and garden design have
flourished in the Hudson River Valley. Its paintings,
its gardens, its landscapes are important representations of our national cultural heritage. Yet its most
significant contribution may be the spirit of living
in harmony with the landa tradition exemplified
by the writings of naturalist John Burroughs and
the grass-roots effort to save Storm King Mountain
and the Hudson Highlands.

The 20th century heralded an era of innovation and

changing attitudes in landscape gardening concepts.
Industrial designer Russel Wright purchased an
80-acre tract of land that had been laid nearly bare
by decades of logging and quarrying. For 30 years,
he cultivated this barren land, diverted a stream to fill
the old quarry and create a pond, and built a house.
Manitoga is a model of ecological design, he said,
a celebration of nature restored to help people
experience the wonder of nature in a new and
intensely personal way.
English garden designer Russell Page combined
horticulture, landscape architecture, and modern
sculpture into the Donald M. Kendall Sculpture
Gardens at PepsiCo headquarters in Purchase. This
world-class garden features more than 40 works by
major international sculptors ranging from Auguste
Rodin to Alexander Calder in an integrated setting
of ever-changing plant colors and fragrances.
A major feat of modern landscape engineering, and
a most rewarding experience, may be enjoyed in a
drive along the Taconic State Parkway as you tour the
valleys landscapes and gardens. This highly acclaimed
parkway is both a sophisticated interpretation of
highway design and a celebration of the regions
natural beauty and agricultural heritage.

The Hudson River Valleys landscapes and gardens

survive because individuals and communities have
worked to balance man-made gardens and landscapes
with the beauty of the waters and ridges. If Washington
Irving were alive today, he would still witness the
charisma of the valley undergoing a thousand
mutations under the magical effects of atmosphere.

Wethersfield (above), a formal classical garden

in Amenia
Sculpture by . at Donald M. Kendall Sculpture
Gardens at PepsiCo (above right), Purchase
Olana (left), Frederic E. Churchs Romantic
landscape at Hudson
Sculpture by Alexander Calder at Storm King Art
Center (right), Mountainville

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Hudson River Valley

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Landscapes and Gardens in the Hudson River Valley

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Washington Park, three blocks west of

Empire State Plaza, Albany, 518-434-4181
Graveled walks wind through knolls and
swales in Albanys Central Park designed
by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert
Vaux. The park includes specimen trees, a
six-acre lake, and gardenesque-style beds
planted with 50,000 tulips each spring to
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map of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area. Many of these heritage
sites are closed Mondays or Tuesdays and are likely to be closed January through
March. For more information about these sites and other heritage sites and hospitality
in the valley, use this website:
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Washington Irving and Fitz-Greene Halleck
who took inspiration from this 19th-century
picturesque landscape designed in part by
Hans Jacob Ehlers. The path winds through
wooded dells and open fields with vistas
to the river.
Vanderbilt Mansion, 4097 Albany Post Rd.,
Hyde Park, 845-229-7770A.J. Downing
called this country place era site one of
the finest specimens of Landscape
Gardening in America. Features include
a 200-acre setting of pleasure grounds,
specimen trees, and an Italianate garden
redesigned for Frederick W. Vanderbilt by
James Greenleaf, a founder of the American
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terraced garden, designed in the Italianate
style by Francis Hoppin about 1900, is a
classic example of country place era design
featuring ordered perennial beds, terraced
garden rooms, and a pergola with views
of the Hudson and distant Catskills. A.J.
Downing designed the gardens Romantic
surroundings for a previous owner.
Montgomery Place, Annandale-on-Hudson,
845-758-5461This historic site includes
over 400 acres tended and shaped by one
family for nearly 200 years. A.J. Downing
provided advice on the gardens and landscape and contributed plants from his
Newburgh nursery. The early 20th-century
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Opus 40, 50 Fite Rd., Saugerties, 845-2463400 Sculptor Harvey Fite worked for 37
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stone paths, ramps, terraces, and fountains
in an abandoned bluestone quarry.

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Olana, 5720 Route 9G south of Rip Van

Winkle Bridge, Hudson, 518-828-0135
Sculpting the landscape as if he were
creating one of his magnificent paintings,
Frederic E. Church developed Olanas
grounds with a Romantics eye to composition, balance, and fidelity to nature.

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Stonecrop, 81 Stonecrop Lane, Cold Spring,

845-265-2000Twelve acres of gardens
include woodland and water gardens, a
grass garden, raised alpine stone beds,
cliff rock gardens, an enclosed English-style
flower garden, a display Alpine House,
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and landscape concepts, Walter and Marion
Beck designed something altogether original in this lush 200-acre natural setting of
garden experiences. Lester Collins borrowed
from Japanese practices to incorporate
individual gardens into a graceful art form.
Locust Grove, 2683 South Rd. (U.S. 9),
Poughkeepsie, 845-454-4500Artistinventor Samuel F.B. Morse created a
150-acre landcape gardenhere in 1852.
This garden has been enhanced by flower
gardens designed in the 1890s and a
heirloom vegetable garden.
Vassar College Arboretum, 124 Raymond
Ave., Poughkeepsie, 845-437-5686More
than 230 tree species comprise the vast
arboretum on the 1,000-acre Vassar campus, which includes a Shakespeare garden,
a native plant preserve, and an ecological
preserve.
Mohonk Preserve, 3197 U.S. 44/Route 55,
Gardiner, 845-255-0919The preserve continues land conservation traditions begun
by the Smiley family when they created the
nearby Mohonk Mountain House in 1869.
The preserve includes cliffs, forests, fields,
streams, and over 100 miles of carriage
roads and trails. The hotel boasts a
Victorian flowering garden display.
Minnewaska Carriage Trails, U.S. 44/Route
55 five miles west of Route 299, New Paltz,
845-255-0752This network of 19th-century
carriage roads lead day-hikers through
a diverse 12,000-acre landscape of cool
hemlock groves, rocky outcrops, lakes,
and waterfalls in the Shawangunk ridge.

Hammond Japanese Stroll Garden,

Deveau Rd., North Salem, 914-669-5033
This traditional Japanese landscape of
inner and outer windows is set amid
flowering trees, aromatic shrubs, stone
sculpture, and waterways.
Rockefeller State Park Preserve, Route 117,
Tarrytown, 914-631-1470Carriage roads
built by the Rockefellers wind through
woodlands, meadows, and fields and past
streams, rivers, and lakes. One road passes
by an Olmsted-designed landscape with
panoramic views of the Hudson.
Kykuit, with tours beginning at
Philipsburg Manor, U.S. 9, Sleepy Hollow,
914-631-9491William Welles Bosworth
designed the beaux artes gardens for
the Rockefeller family. The terraced
gardens, with views of the Tappan Zee
and the Palisades, include fountains,
ornamental structures, and a collection of
contemporary sculpture by Pablo Picasso,
Alexander Calder, Henry Moore, David
Smith, and others.

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Gifford Perennial Gardens, 181 Sharon

Turnpike, Millbrook, 845-677-5359The
Institute of Ecosystem Studies arboretum
maintains 2,000 acres of scenic trails,
forests, meadows, wetlands, perennial
gardens, and demonstration gardens
representing over 1,000 plant specimens.

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Perkins Drive and Tower, Bear Mountain

State Park, 845-942-5873Located within
the Palisades Park, Perkins Tower provides
stunning views of Hudson River Valley icons,
including Bear Mountain Bridge, West
Point, Storm King, and Fort Montgomery.

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The Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area is a federally

funded program created by Congress in 1996. The mission of
the Heritage Area is to recognize, preserve, protect, and interpret
the nationally significant cultural and natural resources of the
Hudson River Valley for the benefit of the nation. The Heritage
Area and the National Park Service funded the production of this
map and guide. A generous grant from Furthermore, a foundation
in Hudson, provided additional funds for its preparation. Please
send your comments or map revisions to Hudson River Valley
Greenway, Capitol Building, Room 254, Albany, NY 12224;
call 518-473-3835; fax 518-473-4518; or use this email
hrvg@hudsongreenway.state.ny.us address.

Trophy Point, West Point, 845-938-2638

The U.S. Military Academy is home to a
popular scenic overlook where the Hudson
bends and twists around Trophy Point and
Constitution Islanda picturesque panorama celebrated by artists for centuries.

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Storm King Art Center, Old Pleasant Hill Rd.,

Mountainville, 845-534-3115Americas
leading outdoor sculpture park features
more than 100 works by such masters as
Alexander Calder, Mark di Suvero, Andy
Goldsworthy, and Louise Nevelson.

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Downing Park, Carpenter Ave. at 3rd St.,

Newburgh, 845-565-5559Frederick Law
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35-acre urban landscape park to commemorate their mentor, A.J. Downing.

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Wethersfield, 214 Pugsley Hill Rd., Amenia,

845-373-8037A splendid example of
classical garden design in the United
States, Wethersfields 10-acre formal
garden rooms are laid out along axes and
cross-axes with views of the 1,200-acre
Wethersfield Farm and mountain ranges.

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Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 4097 Albany

Post Rd., Hyde Park, 800-FDR-VISIT
Century-old formal rose and perennial
beds enclosed by a wall of clipped hemlock
provide the setting for a simple monument
marking the burial sites of the President
and Eleanor Roosevelt. To understand
FDRs appreciation of the natural environment, visit his Top Cottage retreat.

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Park, 800-FDR-VISITBellefield mansion
serves as a National Park Service office, but
the walled garden designed in 1912 by
Beatrix Farrand is open to the public.
The garden is composed of axial lines
linking house and landscape but tempered
with Farrands characteristic unimposing
symmetry and softness of line. English-style
borders feature perennial plants in combinations based on color harmony, bloom
sequence, and texture.

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Dutchess, Putnam, and Westchester
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this 105-mile parkway that showcases
picturesque scenery and views of farms
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Area. Many of these heritage sites are closed Mondays or
Tuesdays and are likely to be closed January through March.
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Albany Rural Cemetery, Cemetery Ave.,

Menands, 518-463-7017More than 460
acres of landscaped grounds and monuments mark the burial sites of many distinguished national figures.

Oakwood Cemetery, 50 101st St., Troy,

518-272-7520Oakwood exemplifies
19th-century rural cemeteries: stone
monuments, statues, waterfalls, winding
roads, ponds, arboretum, mausoleums and
chapels, and views of the Hudson River.

Boscobel, 1601 Route 9D, Garrison,

845-265-3638The Federal-era home of
States and Elizabeth Dyckman was relocated in the 1950s to its present 68-acre site.
The classically inspired landscape features
rose and herb gardens, a maple alle, a
woodland trail, and vistas of the river
Hudson highlands.
Manitoga, 584 Route 9D, Garrison,
845-424-3812Industrial designer Russel
Wright transformed this former quarry and
logging site into an ecological gem. It
includes Wrights house, studio, 75-acre
woodland garden landscaped with native
wildflowers, ferns, and mosses, and trails
that connect with the Appalachian Trail
and Hudson Highlands State Park.

Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens at

PepsiCo, Anderson Hill Rd., Purchase,
914-253-2000PepsiCos headquarters
features 168-acres of lush lawns, ponds,
fountains, and flower gardens created by
English landscape designer Russell Page as
a setting for Kendalls collection of modern
outdoor sculpturea tour de force of
20th-century landscape gardening.
Washington Irvings Sunnyside, West
Sunnyside Lane at U.S. 9, Tarrytown,
914-631-8200These grounds reflect
Irvings view of art, nature, and history
and represent one of the best-documented
Romantic landscapes in America. Irving
arranged the garden paths, trees and
shrubs, vistas, and water features to
appear natural. The kitchen garden has a
mix of varieties popular by the 1850s.

This brochure was produced by writer-curator

Frank Futral; editor Bruce Hopkins; Kirilloff
Design; and Mapping Specialists, 2007.