Castle Rock
Garrison-on-Hudson, New York
Built in 1881, for William H. Osborn, President of the Illinois Central Railroad, and his wife, Virginia Sturges, daughter of one of New York's most prominent art patrons. Their 10,500-square foot castle was constructed in the Gothic style with rough-hewn stone and designed by J. Morgan Slade. Approached by a beautiful winding driveway to the top of a steep wooded hill, it is perched 620-feet above the Hudson River. The famous artist Frederic Edwin Church (a lifelong friend of both the Osborn and Sturges families) advised on its dramatic positioning and landscaping, taking full advantage of the sweeping views over the Hudson River and its surrounding highlands....
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After Osborn died in 1894, his son Henry Fairfield Osborn - one of the foremost palæontologists in the United States and a lifelong friend since school of Theodore Roosevelt - inherited the estate, adding a north wing and library in 1906 to bring it up to 34-rooms. The property remained within the Osborn family for nearly one hundred years until sold after the death of Henry Osborn's last surviving child (Mrs. Jay Coogan) in 1976.
In 1977, Castle Rock was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and much of the surrounding property, including Sugarloaf Mountain, was eventually donated by the Osborn family to the Department of Environmental Conservation, creating the Castle Rock Unique Area for public enjoyment. The castle itself was purchased in 2021 by George Carroll Whipple III, a third-generation Putnam County resident, and it still stands today as a testament to the vision and imagination of the millionaires of the Gilded Age.
In 1977, Castle Rock was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and much of the surrounding property, including Sugarloaf Mountain, was eventually donated by the Osborn family to the Department of Environmental Conservation, creating the Castle Rock Unique Area for public enjoyment. The castle itself was purchased in 2021 by George Carroll Whipple III, a third-generation Putnam County resident, and it still stands today as a testament to the vision and imagination of the millionaires of the Gilded Age.
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