Faithful readers will know that The Magazine ANTIQUES has a special affection for the small city of Hudson in upstate New York.
Taghkanic Baskets
A classic example of regional folk craft, Taghkanic baskets have been woven in a small corner of the Hudson River valley since the mid-eighteenth century.
Beautiful Desuetude
Even as it awaits restoration, the historic Bronson House in Hudson, New York, reveals its architectural charms
Talks, Tours, Cocktails, and a Treasure Hunt
How The Magazine Antiques spent Memorial Day weekend in Hudson, New York
Creative Hudson
The art and antiques trade has helped attract many talented people working in the decorative arts to the area. Meet a few of them.
Montgomery Place, touched by greatness
While notable for many reasons, the Montgomery Place estate in Annandale-on-Hudson is most distinctive for having enjoyed the attention of two famed American tastemakers of the mid-nineteenth century: architect Andrew Jackson Davis and landscape designer Andrew Jackson Downing.
Bard College: a trove of architectural gems
Dating to 1860, when it was founded by philanthropist John Bard in association with leaders of New York City’s Episcopal Church, Bard College wins plaudits for its lively liberal arts curriculum. But what strikes the casual visitor is the architectural diversity of the school’s five hundred-acre campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, which features buildings that range in style from the neoclassical to the ebullient modernity of Frank Gehry.
Edgewater, paradise for a preservationist
What the name of the house lacks in poetry it makes up in simplicity.
The City of Hudson, New York
In September 1609, in search of a northwest passage to Asia, Henry Hudson and his crew sailed their ship the Half Moon up a course of water that the locals then called Mohicanituk (“River That Flows Both Ways”).
Clermont and the Livingston Family
They sit along the east bank of the Hudson River in Dutchess and Columbia counties like so many pearls on a necklace: some three dozen estates built by the Livingston family and their relations.
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