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- In 1886, Rockefeller bought property in Westchester County along the Hudson River from General Lloyd Aspinwall. He renovated or rebuilt the mansion Rockwood Hall.
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Rockwood Hall is the site of the former home of William Rockefeller (1841-1922), brother of John D. Rockefeller and co-founder of the Standard Oil Company. Laurance S. Rockefeller donated the property to New York State as park land in 1999.
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Rockwood Hall is a distinct section of Rockefeller State Park Preserve with commanding views of the Hudson River and Palisade Cliffs. Between 1886 and 1922, William Rockefeller’s estate was about 1000 acres with a 202-room mansion, a working farm, and a landscape designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.
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Rockwood Hall was a Gilded Age mansion in Mount Pleasant, New York, on the Hudson River. It was best known as the home of William Rockefeller, brother of John D. Rockefeller. Both brothers were co-founders of the
Jun 29, 2021 · This is a colorized postcard of the east facade (facing away from the Hudson River) of William Rockefeller’s 204-room Rockwood Hall mansion, ca. 1900. The house was located some 500 feet east of the river and was purchased by Rockefeller in 1886.
The carriage road system, which is one of the estate's most exceptional features, linked Kykuit, the JDR home, with the system of roadways established around Rockwood Hall, the William Rockefeller home, which were subsumed into the larger estate at his death.
William Rockefeller Jr. died of pneumonia on June 24, 1922, in Rockwood Hall. He had caught a cold during a car trip he took with brother John and nephew John Jr. to visit his childhood home in Richford, New York. [ 6 ] He was interred in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Sleepy Hollow, New York.
William Rockefeller purchased the estate and likely extensively renovated the house and property, hiring the firm Carrère and Hastings for interior renovations. Rockefeller died there in 1922, and his heirs sold it to investors, who turned the house and property into Rockwood Hall Country Club.
