It is likely that many residents of at least some parts of the present-day Hudson ValleyĬan relate to this Gothic monstrosity. Now deserted and falling down, it was built in 1852 by Elizabeth Schermerhorn Jones, a cousin of Mrs. Randall is also told that the Wright Brothers landed their new plane there and that a madman named Mathias murdered five beautiful virgins and buried them in the basement, so who knows?) The place has been turned into condominiums.Īnd then there is Wyndcliff. There's the magnificent Beechwood, where the author is told Isadora Duncan once danced on the
And she does provide entertaining lore along with her pictures.
Walking the riverbanks, but this is Washington Irving territory after all. Randall is perhaps a little too receptive to tales of ghosts Randall's treatments of the Scottish-styled island fortress of the notorious arms dealer Francisīannerman (near Fishkill) and the unlucky and never finished Dick's Castle in Garrison capture the haunting atmosphere of great wealth's trappings gone to seed. Well-known homes like the Rockefellers' Kykuit and Jay Gould's Lyndhurst don't gain much in the moody images here, but Ms. These last are evocatively captured by Monica Randall's sepia-tinted photographs in PHANTOMS OF THE HUDSON VALLEY: The Glorious Estates of a Lost Era. Others have been restored and are open to the public, and many are in ruins. Long the shores of the Hudson River between New York City and Albany are to be found a surprising number of great mansions - castles even.
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