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thehistorygirlnj · 4 years

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The Bellefield mansion in Hyde Park, #NewYork. The oldest portion of the house dates to 1795 and was built for Judge John Johnston. In 1885, New York State Senator Thomas Newbold acquired the property. In the early 1900s, the main house was remodeled in the Colonial Revival style, a number of buildings and features were added, and a formal walled garden was designed by landscape gardener Beatrix Farrand. Most of these changes were completed by 1917, and the overall landscape still appears much as it did during that time. The #Bellefield estate is adjacent to and north of the Roosevelt home, Springwood. Bellefield became part of the Home of Franklin Roosevelt National Historic Site in 1975 when its owner, Gerald Morgan Jr. (grandson of Thomas Newbold), donated a portion of the Bellefield estate to the @NationalParkService. The park preserves 75 acres of the former Bellefield estate. Scenic Hudson protects an additional 86-acre parcel of the former estate. The mansion currently serves as park headquarters for Home of Franklin Roosevelt National Historic Site. #ny #nyhistory #SpreadTheHistory #historygirl #FindYourPark #travelblog #travelblogger #blog #blogger #explore #exploreny #history #nationalparkservice #goparks #nps #nps103 #nationalparkgeek #explore #nationalpark #natinalhistoricsite #iloveny #hydepark #hydeparkny #hudsonrivervalley #hudsonrivervalleynha #smallparksaturday #architecture #archi_ologie (at Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEac2mVDUqb/?igshid=6f5ce0za5i3q

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beatriceknowsthingshc · 5 years

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The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze starts today! ….

The Great Jack O’Lantern Blaze starts today! . . . . #hudsonvalleyny #hudsonrivervalley #hudsonvalley #sleepyhollow #tarrytown #sleepyhollowny #westchesterny #headlesshorseman #halloweencostume #halloween #thelegendofsleepyhollow #legendofsleepyhollow #washingtonirving @westchestercountytourism @westchestercountytourismny @hudsonrivervalleynha @iloveny @inthevalley1

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thehistorygirlnj · 4 years

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It’s been almost exactly four years since we have been to the National Park sites in Hyde Park, #NewYork, so yesterday we revisted the three sites that are located within a few miles of each other. All of the buildings are currently closed, but the grounds are open. The second I am featuring is Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site. #Springwood, as the house is named, was the birthplace, lifelong home, and burial place of the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The original section of the home is believed to have been built about 1800. Roosevelt's father, James, purchased the property in 1866. Over the next 34 years, many improvements and additions were made to the house. In 1915, the final major addition and remodeling of the house took place under the guidance of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and his mother Sara, which gives the home a Colonial Revival appearance. In 1943, Roosevelt donated the estate to the American people and the National Historic Site was established January 15, 1944. The site is also home to the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, the first presidential library in the United States, dedicated June 30, 1941. #ny #nyhistory #SpreadTheHistory #historygirl #FindYourPark #travelblog #travelblogger #blog #blogger #explore #exploreny #history #nationalparkservice #goparks #nps #nps103 #nationalparkgeek #explore #nationalpark #optoutside #franklinroosevelt #natinalhistoricsite #iloveny #hydepark #hydeparkny #hudsonrivervalley #hudsonrivervalleynha #smallparksaturday (at Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site) https://www.instagram.com/p/CESo-iojUUN/?igshid=ns1ycw7ujrm6

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thehistorygirlnj · 4 years

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It’s been exactly four years since we have been to the National Park sites in Hyde Park, #NewYork. On Sunday we revisted the three sites that are located within a few miles of each other. All of the buildings are currently closed, but the grounds are open. The third I am featuring is Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site. The property is also known as Val-Kill and is about two miles east of Springwood, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's home. This property was built so that Eleanor could develop some of her ideas for work with winter jobs for rural workers and women. She liked being there more than at the "big house," which was still run by FDR's mother, Sara. This site is drastically different from FDR's mansion - it is very simple and modest, as opposed to lavish. Stone Cottage was built between 1924 and 1926 and is the only residence Eleanor personally owned and the property was the site of Val-Kill Industries. Stone Cottage would also be Eleanor's home after the death of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1945. In 1936, Eleanor remodeled the Val-Kill factory on the site into a 20-room house (now called Val-Kill Cottage) with an apartment for her personal secretary, an office, living room, and dining room for entertaining guests. After Eleanor's death in 1962, the Val-Kill Cottage was converted into rental units and later sold to developers. It was saved through a public campaign and on May 26, 1977 became a unit of the @NationalParkService. The site opened to the public in 1984. #ny #nyhistory #SpreadTheHistory #historygirl #FindYourPark #travelblog #travelblogger #blog #blogger #explore #exploreny #history #nationalparkservice #goparks #nps #nps104 #nationalparkgeek #explore #nationalpark #valkill #eleanorroosevelt #natinalhistoricsite #iloveny #hydepark #hydeparkny #hudsonrivervalley #hudsonrivervalleynha #smallparksaturday #stonecottage (at Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEVRaWCj4uq/?igshid=d4qb80xkm3rb

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thehistorygirlnj · 4 years

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The rear, or river elevation, two-story, semicircular portico at Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site in Hyde Park, #NewYork. The #mansion and tiered formal gardens sit on a 211 acre property that overlooks the Hudson River. Frederick William Vanderbilt (1856–1938) purchased the property in 1895 for use as a spring and fall country residence. The 54-room mansion was designed by architects McKim, Mead, & White and built between 1896 and 1899. It is constructed of Indiana Limestone. Many of the mansion's contents were bought in Europe from wealthy families that had fallen on hard times. Furnishings and construction totaled $2,250,000. After Frederick's death in 1938, the mansion was left to his wife's niece, Margaret Louise Van Alen, who tried to sell it but found no buyers. Franklin Delano Roosevelt suggested that she donate the estate to the National Park Service as a monument to the Gilded Age. In addition to the mansion, the property includes the Pavilion (a former residence turned Visitor Center), a coach house, power station, gate houses, bridges, and the gardens (plus ancillary garden buildings). On December 18, 1940 the site became a unit of the @NationalParkService. #ny #nyhistory #SpreadTheHistory #historygirl #FindYourPark #travelblog #travelblogger #blog #blogger #explore #exploreny #history #nationalparkservice #goparks #nps #nps104 #nationalparkgeek #explore #nationalpark #optoutside #vanderbiltmansion #vanderbiltmansionnhs #natinalhistoricsite #iloveny #hydepark #hydeparkny #hudsonrivervalley #hudsonrivervalleynha #smallparksaturday (at Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEnOveij2-a/?igshid=9s9eb9xq98jq

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thehistorygirlnj · 5 years

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The #driveway to the #Springwood estate, now Home of Franklin D Roosevelt National Historic Site (@hydeparknps) in Hyde Park, #NewYork. This is where Franklin Delano Roosevelt performed his own form of physical therapy in the spring of 1922 to recuperate from the damaging effects of polio; using crutches and 14 pounds of metal leg braces to walk from the house to the Albany Post Road (U. S. Route 9) and back again. In later years, #FDR thought that this exercise probably injured his health rather than helped it. #ny #FindYourPark #nps #nationalpark #nps102 #nyhistory #travelblog #travelblogger #explore #blog #blogger #historygirl #roadtrip #igersny #exploreny #SpreadTheHistory #nationalparkservice #goparks #nationalparkgeek #hydepark #hydeparkny #hudsonvalley #franklinroosevelt #hudsonrivervalleynha #nationalhistoricsite #iloveny (at Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bq8q9jKFQ7Y/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=abd59mq49g7y

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