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Dutchess Manor

New York, US

Dutchess Manor

Dutchess Manor was a restaurant and catering hall located along NY 9D in the Town of Fishkill, New York, United States, between the city of Beacon and Breakneck Ridge. It is one of the most distinctive Hudson Valley buildings in the Second Empire architectural style, and was added to the National Re

gister of Historic Places in 1982. In 2020, the building was purchased by Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail, a nonprofit organization behind the planning of a 7.5-mile linear park in the Hudson Highlands. Originally built as a country house, it was constructed ca. 1867–1868 for grain merchant James Wade and his wife Louisa Van Amburgh Wade. Louisa's Dutch-American family had owned the property for decades prior, using it as farmland. The couple commissioned architect George E. Harney, based in nearby Cold Spring and Newburgh, to design the house and two outbuildings. It has many common elements of the Second Empire style, such as quoining on the corners and a mansard roof. Francis Timoney, an Irish immigrant and local brickyard owner, began occupying the house in 1889. The nearby New York Central Water Level Route gave him and the other brickmakers in the area easy access to New York City and...

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