Boscobel in Garrison: a Federal mansion built 1804-1808, rescued for $35 in 1955, trucked 15 miles upriver, and rebuilt plank by plank.
States Dyckman built Boscobel between 1804 and 1808 as a Federal-era showpiece for his Loyalist family on a bluff near Montrose. Dyckman himself had spent much of the Revolutionary War in London, defending British quartermasters against profiteering charges; a position that financed one of the Hudson Valley's finest homes. The house declined through the twentieth century, and by January 1955 the county was ready to be rid of it: a demolition contractor won it for $35.
Preservationists beat the wrecking ball by months, dismantling the house piece by piece and trucking it 15 miles upriver to Garrison, where it was rebuilt on a bluff with an even clearer Hudson view than the original site had ever had.
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