Montgomery Place

Montgomery Place is a serene reflection of nearly 200 years of continuous family stewardship. The 375-acre property features a landscape influenced by Andrew Jackson Downing and a mansion with elements designed by Alexander Jackson Davis. It is an amazingly intact example of Hudson Valley estate life.

With support of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Historic Hudson Valley recently created American Arcadia at Montgomery Place, an ambitious effort to examine the changing relationship between Americans, landscape, and nature over time. Historic Hudson Valley's enormous body of documents and artifacts provide the evidence for this new interpretation. The first-person voices of the four women who shaped the estate can be heard clearly in 150 years' worth of their correspondence, contracts, architectural and garden design sketches and accounts. Even more evidence of their thoughts and attitudes is available through Montgomery Place's abundant collection of original furnishing, books, portraits, buildings and the landscape itself. Click for further reading.