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Cultural Heritage in Hudson Valley
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> Hudson River Maritime Museum
50 Rondout Landing, Kingston, NY 12401
This waterfront museum features rotating exhibits along with a fleet of small boats, including an 1898 steam tugboat, and an extensive gift shop.
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> Hudson-Athens Lighthouse
Water Street, Athens, NY 12015
Located in the middle of the Hudson River, the Hudson-Athens Lighthouse is one of only seven remaining lighhouses on the river.
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> Jacob Purdy House
60 Park Ave., White Plains, NY 10603
Used during the Revolutionary War by General George Washington as a headquarters command post, this circa-1720 farmhouse is now the headquarters of the White Plains Historical Society.
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> Jean Hasbrouck House
81 Huguenot St., New Paltz, NY 12561
Built in 1721, the historic Jean Hasbrouck House is designated a National Historic Landmark and considered one of the best examples of colonial Dutch architecture in stone in the United States.
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> Kingsland Point Park
299 Palmer Ave., Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591
Built in 1926, this waterfront park offers hiking trails, ballfields, children’s play areas, benches overlooking the Hudson River, picnic areas, and a newly renovated 1926 bathhouse.
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> Kykuit: John D. Rockefeller Estate
381 N. Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591
Home to four generations of the Rockefeller family, beginning with the philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, founder of Standard Oil, this 40-room historic house and museum is now a National Historic Landmark
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> Locust Grove Estate
2683 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Majestically seated on a hill overlooking the scenic Hudson River, this National Historic Landmark estate features 200 acres of landscaped grounds with five miles of hiking trails and an historic Italianate mansion.
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> Lyndhurst Mansion
635 S. Broadway, Tarrytown, NY 10591
Designed in 1838 by Alexander Jackson Davis, Lyndhurst Manor is one of America’s finest Gothic Revival mansions.
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> Magazzino Italian Art
2700 U.S. 9, Cold Spring, NY 10516
This 20,000 square-foot museum, designed by Spanish architect Miguel Quismondo, opened its doors in 2017, creating a new cultural hub and community resource within the Hudson Valley.
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> Mid-Hudson Children's Museum
75 N. Water St., Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
Located in the heart of the historic waterfront, the museum offers five exhibit galleries and a outdoor children’s garden focusing on early learning, science, literacy, math, art, music and community.
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> Montgomery Place Historic Estate
26 Gardener Way, River Road, Red Hook, NY 12571
Overlooking the Hudson River, this 380-acre 1840s estate is a designated National Historic Landmark set amid rolling lawns, woodlands, and gardens with the Catskill Mountains as a backdrop.
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> Mount Gulian Historic Site
145 Sterling St., Beacon, NY 12508
This National Historic Landmark is a reconstructed 18th century Dutch manor house on the Hudson River that today is a museum.
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> Old Dutch Church - Kingston
272 Wall St., Kingston, NY 12401
Built in 1852 and located in the heart of Kingston's Stockade district, the Old Dutch Church stands on the site of a 1600s Dutch Colonial village.
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> Old Dutch Reformed Church – Sleepy Hollow
430 Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591
Founded in 1685 and made famous by Washington Irving's story, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” this historic church and churchyard is one of New York’s oldest churches.
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> Opus 40
50 Fite Road, Saugerties, NY 12477
Considered by many to be the Stonehenge of North America, Opus 40 is a world-famous nonprofit sculpture park and museum with more than 60 acres of meadows, forested paths and blue stone quarries...
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> Philipsburg Manor
381 N. Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, NY 10591
Dating back to 1693, Philipsburg Manor features a working farm, a stone manor house filled with a collection of 17th- and 18th-century period furnishings and costumed re-enactors interpreting pre-Revolutionary times
