Our Time at Foxhollow Farm: A Hudson Valley Family Remembered

Our Time at Foxhollow Farm: A Hudson Valley Family Remembered (Excelsior Editions)

Our Time at Foxhollow Farm is a remarkable pictorial history of an eminent Hudson Valley family in the early decades of the twentieth century. Illustrated with the familyâ€™s extensive collection of personal albums compiled during the nascent years of photography, it provides a fascinating insight into the regional, social, and architectural history of the era. In 1903 Tracy Dows, the son of a successful grain merchant from Manhattan, married Alice Townsend Olin, whose Livingston forebears had settled in the Rhinebeck, New York, area in the late 1600s. Dows purchased and combined several existing farms to establish his estate, Foxhollow Farm, next to Aliceâ€™s ancestral home. He commissioned Harrie T. Lindeberg, a sought-after architect trained under Stanford White, to design the family home and other buildings on the property, and the Olmsted Brothers to landscape its rolling hills. The Dowses raised their three children on the estate, and led a busy social life of tennis tournaments, weddings, dinners, and dances with such friends and neighbors as the Roosevelts and the Astors. Tracy Dows devoted himself largely to the pursuit of agricultural and civic affairs at home and in the Rhinebeck community. Olin Dows, Tracy and Aliceâ€™s son, became a notable painter active in President Rooseveltâ€™s Works Progress Administration. Our Time at Foxhollow Farm follows the Dows family from 1903 through the 1930s, documenting their life at home, social activities, and travels in America and Europe. An enthusiastic amateur photographer, Tracy Dows took many of this bookâ€™s photographs himself, offering a vivid and warmly intimate perspective on privileged early twentieth-century American life.
Country USA
Brand Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press
Manufacturer State University of New York Press
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781438462813
ReleaseDate 2016-09-01

Country	USA
Brand	Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Press
Manufacturer	State University of New York Press
Binding	Hardcover
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781438462813
ReleaseDate	2016-09-01

Our Time at Foxhollow Farm: A Hudson Valley Family Remembered (Excelsior Editions)

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