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Magazzino Italian Art
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah
With a focus on changing exhibitions—the museum’s founders opted to forgo a
permanent collection—it mounts several shows each year that feature notable art reflecting multiple cultures. The KMA also presents lectures, workshops, and other events in its building and adjoining sculpture garden, plus vibrant programs for more than 100 schools.
Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase, Purchase
The museum’s permanent collection boasts more than 6,000 pieces of modern,
contemporary, and African art in a building designed by noted architect Philip Johnson. The Neuberger also hosts wide-ranging special exhibitions, programs, and lectures. Moreover, the Neuberger Museum of Art is one of the 10 largest university museums in the nation.
DUTCHESS
Arts Mid-Hudson, Poughkeepsie
All manner of cultural activities take place at this arts service organization. It
features a gallery and presents workshops and numerous public events, along with providing technical services and advocacy for individuals and groups involved in the arts.
Dia Beacon, Beacon
This acclaimed museum of contemporary art, located in an enormous former
Nabisco box factory, specializes in works reflecting late-20th-century art movements—from abstract expressionism to pop art. Permanent and temporary exhibits, lectures, cultural events, and educational programs are all part of Dia Beacon’s extensive slate of offerings.
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie
This 36,000-square-foot museum presents rotating shows by a variety of artists, as well as ongoing exhibits from its collection of more than 22,000 artworks
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HISTORIC WESTCHESTER HOMES
John Jay Homestead
Katonah
WHO: John Jay, the first chief justice of the United States, began construction on the home in 1787, the year the Constitution was drafted.
STYLE: Georgian
FUN FACT: Though Jay was president of an abolition society and signed a law
as governor of New York that led the way to ending slavery in
the state, he owned enslaved people at this estate. Some even ran away—“a measure,” the perplexed Jay wrote, “for which I cannot conceive of a motive.”
Thomas Paine Cottage
New Rochelle
WHO: The famous writer of Common Sense—the first pamphlet to push
for American independence, published in 1776— lived here from 1802–1806.
STYLE: Saltbox
FUN FACT: In 1809, Paine was buried on the grounds, but his remains were later dug up by a British admirer who wanted to rebury him in his native land. That never happened, and eventually Paine’s bones were lost.
Sunnyside
Tarrytown
WHO: Washington Irving, the first famous American author best known for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, expanded the colonial- era farmhouse into a more spacious home in 1835.
STYLE: Dutch Colonial Revival
FUN FACT: Irving fought (unsuccessfully) to prevent the New York Central Railroad from laying tracks along the base of his property. The “infernal alarum” of the steam- whistle left him in a “deplorable state of nervous agitation,” he wrote in 1850.
Kykuit
Sleepy Hollow
WHO: Built for oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller Sr. in 1913, the estate
was occupied by
his grandson, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, until his death in 1979. STYLE: Classical Revival Georgian
FUN FACT: The elder Rockefeller didn’t care for the first “Kykuit” his architects and builders created. After it was destroyed by a fire in 1902, he hired two new architects— William Adams Delano and Chester Holmes Aldrich—to rebuild the home.
Armour-Stiner Octagon House Irvington
WHO: Financier Paul J. Armour modeled the eight-sided house in 1860 after a classical Roman temple. The remarkable dome—the only one in the world above an octagonal dwelling—was added a few years later by Joseph Stiner.
STYLE: Eclectic
FUN FACT: Poet and historian Carl Carmer lived here when he wrote The Hudson (1939), one of the best books written about the river’s history. Still a private residence,
it is open for tours by appointment.