Blog entries tagged 'Kykuit'

Kykuit is the cover in Northeast Antiques

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Philip Alvare, a writer who visited the Rockefeller estate on a sunny day in June, has authored for Northeast Antiques one of the best pieces on Kykuit HVBlogger has ever read. And, HVBlogger is delighted to see that it is in fact the cover story in the August issue of this widely read pub [...]

Rethinking Nelson Rockefeller on his 100th birthday

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Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nelson A. Rockefeller, the third child of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and the man responsible for throwing open the doors of Kykuit, the family's grand Pocantico Hills estate, to the public.

The governor of New York from 1959 to 1973 and vic [...]

New York Social Diary explores philanthropy and JDR

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We rather enjoyed this extended piece about Kykuit, John D. Rockefeller, wealth, and philanthropy by David Patrick Columbia, published last week on his always lively New York Social Diary web page. While exploring the lessons of philanthropy, Mr. Columbia provides us with an excellent mini-biopic of JDR (shown here with his son, Junior).

Here's a choice [...]

Westchester Mag: Kykuit, Sunnyside, Union Church, Blaze are must-dos!

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Frequent visitors to Historic Hudson Valley sites know the organization's museums of history are pretty cool, pretty historic, pretty educational, and just plain pretty, but there's a whole world out there who haven't visited yet. And while it's one thing for the folks at HHV to tout the value of a visit, it's quite another entirely to g [...]

Kykuit tix are online, opening weekend is May 10-11

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Electronic bugs be gone: Kykuit tour tickets are once again available online. The Rockefeller estate opens for the season on May 10 with a new, streamlined tour menu - Classic, Grand, Kids, Timesaver, and one the Kykuit gurus like to call "Selected Highlights." Pretty much everything up on that hill is a highlight, so I' [...]