Springside National Historic Landmark

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Springside National Historic Landmark Historic Country Estate of Matthew Vassar - Designed by Andrew Jackson Downing - National Historic Landmark The result was Springside.

Secluded in an urban neighborhood, Springside is a 20-acre landscape that was once the country estate of Matthew Vassar, the wealthy Poughkeepsie brewer, philanthropist, and founder of Vassar College. It holds a special place in history as the only landscape of its celebrated creator, Andrew Jackson Downing, to survive largely intact. Now a National Historic Landmark, Springside is one of the historic sites on the Greenway Trail though the mid-Hudson Valley. In 1850, Vassar hired Downing, one of America's most influential nineteenth century landscape designers, to create an "ornamental farm" — a country estate that combined the beauty of landscaped pleasure gardens with the utility of a working farm. Although only one Downing-designed building remains, the landscape still holds the shape of his genius.

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Physical 185 Academy Street (Mailing POBox 4915)
Poughkeepsie, NY
12601

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(845) 454-2060

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