[HN Gopher] Samuel Morse Locust Grove Estate and Nature Preserve
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Samuel Morse Locust Grove Estate and Nature Preserve
Author : dnetesn
Score : 19 points
Date : 2023-03-13 12:33 UTC (10 hours ago)
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| nerdponx wrote:
| Really random to see this hit the front page of HN. I love this
| place. Shame the area is strangled by stroads.
| Animats wrote:
| Ah, Samuel Finley _Breese_ Morse, the telegraph guy, not Samuel
| Finley Brown Morse, the real estate guy, responsible for the Del
| Monte Forest in Monterey.
| jordankoschei wrote:
| So strange to see this on HN, this place is 10 minutes down the
| road from me. It's about 2 minutes away from IBM's big quantum
| computing facility, too.
|
| They host great events, and on nice days you can just go and
| explore or sit.
|
| I don't have much of a "tech angle" to add, except that I find it
| so beneficial to find places like this to get out of my office
| and away from the screen and just ~think~ in a different and
| beautiful place.
| ksmith14 wrote:
| Having lived at worked in Poughkeepsie at IBM for several years
| found it strange to see it on HN as well. I've since moved to
| Massachusetts but something my wife and I really miss about the
| Hudson Valley are all of the historic sites along the river
| (Locust Grove, FDR's house, Vanderbilt mansion, Mills mansion,
| Olana, etc.) that were often free and were great places to just
| go sit and visit, as you say.
| EpiMath wrote:
| Thanks! Did not know about this and now it is on my list of
| places to visit.
| jihadjihad wrote:
| > The main house of Locust Grove is an Italianate style designed
| by Morse in 1950, inspired by his visit to the Italian
| countryside and its gardens.
|
| Amazing achievement for a man dead and buried for nearly 80
| years!
| svat wrote:
| This page has the correct century and more detail:
| https://www.lgny.org/historic-mansion
|
| > The main house at Locust Grove is a villa in the Italianate
| style designed in 1850 for artist and inventor Samuel F. B.
| Morse by architect Alexander Jackson Davis. [...] Morse had
| very clear ideas about what he wanted in what was to be his
| summer home [...] For inspiration, Morse recalled the elegant
| villas that he had visited years earlier in the Italian
| countryside and he sketched towers, windows and floor plans on
| scraps of paper to give to his architect.
| nkurz wrote:
| Stray connections: A few years ago we renovated an old house in a
| nearby part of New York State. It involved cleaning out things
| left in the attic by the owner in the 1930's. Based on the
| clippings and memorabilia left behind, we determined she was a
| granddaughter of this Morse. Given her age, I wonder now if she
| ever visited her grandfather while he was living at this estate.
| He died in 1872, so I think she may have just missed meeting him
| there, but since it was in their family until 1901 she almost
| certainly visited while it was still theirs.
| LinuxBender wrote:
| I believe one of his descendants works or worked at Google so
| maybe he has a HN account and will chime in here and perhaps
| there would be one less stray connection. And the only reason I
| know about that was the parody/spoof commercial Google did for
| the GMail Tap. [1] Or maybe you can track him down.
|
| [1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzuK1mxVH7c
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