Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Vanderbilt Mansion

The view outside my bedroom window the morning after it snowed


On Sunday, my parents and I visited the Vanderbilt Mansion in Hyde Park. It's a gilded age mansion belonging to Frederick and Louise Vanderbilt, of the New York Vanderbilts. It's a huge estate and the grounds alone are astounding, although we didn't walk around much because it was cold. We couldn't take pictures inside the house, which was decorated for Christmas, but I took some photos outside.


The inside of the visitors' center, which was the house the Vanderbilts stayed in while the mansion was being constructed, and later used as a bachelor pad for male visitors (female visitors stayed overnight in the main house).

Chandelier in the visitors' center

The view of the Hudson




Hudson River overlook - the Vanderbilts had a mile of riverfront property out of their 600+ total acres.

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