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FDR Top Cottage

FDR FDR "Top Cottage"
 
May 1, 2014 - November 1, 2014 - Top Cottage will be open 7 days a week with tours at 11:10 am, 1:10 pm and 3:10 pm. Access by shuttle bus only. Tours depart from the Wallace Center.

Franklin Roosevelt built Top Cottage at the eastern most end of his estate on land purchased in 1937 on what his cousin and close friend Margaret Suckley called "the nicest Hill in Dutchess County."

Vanderbilt Mansion

Historically known as Hyde Park, Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site is one of the region's oldest Hudson River estates. For nearly two centuries, this place has been home to socially prominent New Yorkers. A superb example of its type, Hyde Park represents the domestic ideal of the elite class in the late nineteenth-century America. It provides a glimpse of estate life, the social stratification of the period, and the world of the American millionaire during the era historians refer to as the Gilded Age.

Locust Grove Estate

Locus Grove EstateThe Locust Grove Estate is tucked away in a gorgeous hideaway that looks down over the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie, NY. Here you’ll find an enchanting Italianate villa, which was crafted for Samuel F. B. Morse by Alexander Jackson Davis in 1851. Dotted throughout the landscape are serene landscaped grounds, mile-upon-mile of carriage roads and photographic views of the Hudson River.