MID HUDSON

Montgomery Place

https://www.bard.edu/montgomeryplace/

River Road, Route 103

Annadale-on-Hudson, NY 12504

Hours: Grounds are open daily from sunrise to sunset. The mansion is closed and mansion tours suspended due to ongoing preservation work at the site.

 

Historical Description:

Montgomery Place was established by Janet Livingston Montgomery, widow of Revolutionary War hero General Richard Montgomery. She built the Federal-style house in from 1804 to 1805 and established a successful commercial nursery on the property. During the first half of the nineteenth-century, her descendants created one of the most beautiful estates in the nation. The era's greatest designers, architect Alexander Jackson Davis and landscape designer Andrew Jackson Downing, assisted them in their endeavor. In the 1930s, the generation living there created a twentieth-century horticultural showcase, one that continues to flourish today.

 

The Site:

"When Bard College acquired the Montgomery Place property in 2016, [they] began an extensive review and inventory of the collections, archives, and the property itself. [Their] work going forward is to expand upon the research and resources [they] have inherited from the previous owners of the property, much of which has focused on the 180-year residency of the Livingston family. [They] are developing a more robust and inclusive history of Montgomery Place, one that traces its geological past and present, and the development of property ownership on the land..."