Gardens/Landscapes
Kykuit
The terraced gardens and garden rooms at Kykuit, designed by William Welles Bosworth, are among the most extensive and best maintained Beaux Arts gardens in America. They offer fine Hudson River vistas within a sweeping, romantic landscape. An important collection of 20th-century sculpture assembled by Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller is sited throughout the grounds, including works by Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, and numerous others.
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Sunnyside
The landscape at Sunnyside is one of the most important and best documented romantic landscapes in America. The kitchen garden has a mix of vegetable, flower, and herb beds, with a wide selection of plant varieties popular in the United States by the 1850s. Other varieties are modern specimens similar to those grown by Washington Irving when he lived here.
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Philipsburg Manor
Philipsburg Manor offers a recreated slaves' garden, based on research into gardens actually maintained by slaves for their own use. Food crops, cash crops, and medicinal plants are grown.
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Van Cortlandt Manor
Van Cortlandt Manor has several gardens. The Long Walk features ornamental flowering plants and bulbs; there are also herb and vegetable gardens, whose produce is used in demonstrations of medicinal and culinary arts of the period.
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Montgomery Place
Montgomery Place, in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, is a popular location for garden enthusiasts to enjoy a mix of formal gardens and inspiring landscape walks. The 19th-century landscape, which survives, was influenced by Andrew Jackson Downing, who visited often and wrote about Montgomery Place extensively. The gardens, including perennial gardens, the serene ellipse, and the rough garden, were created in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Lyndhurst
At Lyndhurst , the landscape with its splendid river views is a primary feature. In addition, there is a well-maintained rose garden and a restored fern garden. The cast-iron structure of the splendid 19th-century greenhouse, one of the largest built, has been restored and may be visited. The grounds contain extraordinary specimen trees.
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