Two new museums on the Hudson River. (New York)

The Magazine Antiques | May 1, 1994| | Copyright

IN 1885 THE PAINTER and architect Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900) and his wife, Maria Cooley, bought a small Gothic revival cottage in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. The house, called Ever Rest, and the studio that Cropsey added afforded a splendid view of what the artist described as "one of the finest passages of scenery on the [Hudson] River." Not quite thirty years later John D. Rockefeller Sr. (1839-1937), the founder of the Standard Oil Company, moved into Kykuit, his house in nearby Tarrytown, New York, which was magnificently sited on two thousand acres above the ...

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