While visiting Greene County I also visited the Hudson Valley’s Oldest home, the Bronck Museum built in 1663.
The house was built in three phases. Pieter Bronck constructed a single-room stone structure in 1663, a year after he purchased 10 square miles from the Mohican Indians. A large single-room addition was added in 1685. In 1738, Leendert Bronck, Pieter's grandson, built the four-room dwelling to the north of the original house and connected the two with a brick "hyphen." Timber-framed and veneered in brick, the "new" section features characteristic Dutch sloping dormers and parapet gables. The farm remained in the Bronck family for eight generations, undergoing little change.
Family furniture (primarily 19th-century), china, silver, glass, and artwork decorate the rooms, which feature 18th-century woodwork. Outbuildings include the restored 19th-century kitchen dependency and three barns. Two barns house displays of agricultural tools, sleighs, and wheeled vehicles; the third contains an exhibit about the great Catskill Mountain hotels and a collection of locally made stoneware.
Built in the 1830's is the oldest, documented, multisided barn in New York. The weight of the roof of this unusual structure rests solidly on its thirteen sides. The only interior framing, apart from the side walls, is a single center pole.
Visiting here is a life long dream come true, and I am glad to be back home!
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I am a strong, sexy, intelligent, candid and loving woman who would do anything for her family. I am a mother of two.I have a sarcastic sense of humor,love to read and I am trying to stay positive in a difficult world.This is the place that I will use to perserve my sanity on the path that is called my life.
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity.It can turn a mealinto a feast, a house into a home,a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.~Melody Beattie
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