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Wilderstein, Locust Grove, and FDR Museum PLUS SUNY Press Publications

All on for the history tour! Visit three Hudson Valley’s most important historic sites at your leisure. This item includes 4 passes to Wilderstein Historic Site, Locust Grove Estate & FDR Library & Museum PLUS 20% Discount at FDR Gift Shop.

Overlooking the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie NY, the 200-acre Locust Grove Estate includes an Italianate villa designed in 1851 for artist and inventor Samuel F.B. Morse by architect A. J. Davis. Established by Annette Innis Young, Locust Grove is an independent not-for-profit museum and nature preserve with miles of carriage roads, landscaped grounds, historic gardens and Hudson River views. Inside the historic mansion, the Young family’s collection of Hudson River School paintings, early 19th-century American furniture, and personal possessions are still in place after more than a century.

Upriver in Rhinebeck, the Wilderstein (wild man’s stone) estate was named in reference to a nearby Indian petroglyph, an allusive reminder of a cultural heritage that preceded European settlements in the region. A descendant of the Beekman and Livingston families, Thomas Suckley and his wife Catherine Murray Bowne wanted a building site endowed with striking natural features in the best traditions of the picturesque aesthetic. The last resident of Wilderstein was Margaret (Daisy) Suckley. A cousin and confidante of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Miss Suckley traveled extensively with FDR during his presidency, gave him his famous black Scottish terrier Fala and helped to establish his library in Hyde Park.

 The FDR Library & Museum, on the grounds of the Roosevelt family property in Hyde Park, is home to permanent and changing exhibitions about Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, the New Deal and World War II. The exhibits tell the story of the Roosevelt presidency beginning in the depths of the Great Depression and continuing through the New Deal and World War II with an emphasis on both Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt’s relationship with the American people.

 The Worlds of the Seventeenth-Century Hudson Valley and Summer Pleasures, Winter Pleasures: A Hudson Valley Cookbook complete this package.