'Sanctified Landscape' Architecture

'Sanctified Landscape' ArchitectureThe Hudson River Valley was the first iconic American landscape. Beginning as early as the 1820s, artists and writers found new ways of thinking about the human relationship with the natural world along the Hudson. Here, amid the most dramatic river and mountain scenery in the eastern United States, Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper created a distinctly American literature, grounded in folklore and history, that contributed to the emergence

but over the years

always entertaining

giving readers a tour of the foodways of the Netherlands and New Netherland

The scholarship surrounding this effort is reflective of Historic Huguenot Street’s commitment to engage audiences in the exploration of America’s multicultural past in order to understand the historic forces that have shaped America

Discover these and other salacious stories buried in Ulster County's history

grass-fed beef

For ages 3 and up

The Dutch rule of New Amsterdam and New Netherland (1609-1664) was short

Few people today realize that bridges were covered to protect the trusses—not the people using the bridge

The town of Kingston

The Dutch control of the region was short-lived

Truth's awakening during nineteenth-century America's progressive surge then propelled her ascendancy as a rousing preacher and political orator despite her inability to read and write