In 1885, New York State Senator Thomas Newbold acquired the property at Bellefield. During his ownership, the main house was remodeled in the Colonial Revival style, a number of buildings and features were added, and formal walled garden was designed by landscape gardener Beatrix Farrand. Most of these construction changes were completed by 1917, and the overall landscape still appears much as it did during that time.
"There is no part of the Union where the taste in Landscape Gardening is so far advanced, as on the middle portion of the Hudson." Andrew Jackson Downing, in "A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening," 1841
Last updated: January 21, 2020