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Montgomery Place, near Barrytown, New York, United States, is an early 19th-century estate that has been designated a National Historic Landmark. It is also a contributing property to the Hudson River Historic District, also a National Historic Landmark. It is a Federal-style house, with expansion designed by architect Alexander Jackson Davis. It reflects the tastes of a younger, post-Revolutionary generation of wealthy landowners in the Livingston family who were beginning to be influenced by French trends in home design, moving beyond the strictly English models exemplified by Clermont Manor a short distance up the Hudson River. It is the only Hudson Valley estate house from this era that survives intact, and Davis's only surviving neoclassical country house. Andrew Jackson Downing praised the landscapes of the estate, work he had informally consulted on that was not completed in its final form until almost the mid-20th century. The southern of the estate, which he called the Wilderness and is today known as the South Woods, is the oldest oak forest in the Hudson Valley.〔 It has grown to , and includes many outbuildings. A network of trails and paths connects them and offers both quiet wooded tracts and views of the river and Catskill Mountains. The estate was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Ten years later, the Livingston descendants sold it to Historic Hudson Valley, a regional historic preservation group. The district was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1990, and Montgomery Place received that designation itself in 1992. Montgomery Place is located on Annandale Road near Barrytown, just off NY 9G. The house and grounds are open to the public; the interior has been open for tours since May 2010. (It was previously closed due to restoration efforts).〔("Montgomery Place listing" ) hudsonriverheritage.org, retrieved June 29, 2010〕 On Sept. 30, 2015, Historic Hudson Valley and Bard College announced the sale of Montgomery Place to the college. The transaction is expected to close by year end.〔url=http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/news/2015/09/30/bard-purchasing-montgomery-place/73087198/〕 ==Property== The estate is bounded on the east by Annandale Road, the north by the Saw Kill and the west by the river. A tree-lined driveway from the road leads west to a visitor center and parking lot next to an orchard. From there it is short walk through a grove of trees to an open lawn in front of the main house, atop a bluff overlooking the river and the Catskill Escarpment across it in the distance. Five of the 22 buildings, structures and sites identified on the estate have been listed as contributing resources to its historic character. These are the main house, three other Davis-designed buildings and the surviving landscaping.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Montgomery Place」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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