A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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Cultural Landscape Report for Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, Hyde Park, New York. Volume II. Treatment
Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site is a 211-acre historic site located 70 miles north of New York City in Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York (Figure 1). Perched on a high terrace overlooking the Hudson River, Vanderbilt Mansion and its estate grounds represent a rare intact example of the grand estates and opulent lifestyles of the wealthiest Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Mansion grounds feature open parkland, with broad lawns and century-old specimen trees, formal gardens, a creek, native woodlands, and rolling meadows. The site also contains nine historic buildings in addition to bridges, dams, garden structures, roads, and paths. The estate grounds of Vanderbilt Mansion is a layered landscape that bears the imprint of five generations of owners who developed the grounds over nearly two centuries, embellishing rather than obliterating the work of previous owners.
Cultural Landscape Report for Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, Hyde Park, New York. Volume II. Treatment
Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site is a 211-acre historic site located 70 miles north of New York City in Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York (Figure 1). Perched on a high terrace overlooking the Hudson River, Vanderbilt Mansion and its estate grounds represent a rare intact example of the grand estates and opulent lifestyles of the wealthiest Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Mansion grounds feature open parkland, with broad lawns and century-old specimen trees, formal gardens, a creek, native woodlands, and rolling meadows. The site also contains nine historic buildings in addition to bridges, dams, garden structures, roads, and paths. The estate grounds of Vanderbilt Mansion is a layered landscape that bears the imprint of five generations of owners who developed the grounds over nearly two centuries, embellishing rather than obliterating the work of previous owners.
Cultural Landscape Report for Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, Hyde Park, New York. Volume II. Treatment
J. W. Hammond (author)
2009
208 pages
Report
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English