Our Great Parks



Martin Van Buren National Historic Site


Park Type: National Historic Site

The Park is located in: NY

Address:
Superintendent, Martin Van Buren National Historic Site
PO Box 545
Kinderhook, NY 12106

Phone: 518/758-9689

Park Details:
Martin Van Buren purchased this estate, which he named Lindenwald, in 1839. The estate grew to 220 acres under his direction and was a profitable working farm as well as his retirement home for 21 years. With the architect Richard Upton, he remodeled the 1979 Federal house into an elegant eclectic Gothic/Italianate mansion where he could live out hist post-Wite House years in the comfort he relished



Photo Links:


Topics

'