FRIENDS OF NCHM STUDY TOUR #14 BY POPULAR DEMAND, RETURN TO:

Great Houses of the Hudson River Monday through Saturday, May 14-19, 2018

Monday • May 14 Flight from Texas to Newark, midday arrival and transfer to Afternoon Tour and Tea with Colonial Dames at House Hotel check-in (2 nights, breakfast on your own): Warwick Hotel in Midtown Welcome dinner nearby

Tuesday • May 15 Gracie Mansion (Federal style, 1799): City mayor’s residence since 1942 Metropolitan Museum of Art: lunch break and Hudson River School galleries FREE AFTERNOON for personal choices—more Met, new Whitney, High Line, etc. FREE EVENING

Wednesday • May 16 Morris-Jumel Mansion (1765): ’s oldest house Ever Rest Jasper Cropsey Home & Studio (Greek Revival, 1882): key figure of Hudson River School Sunnyside (1835): Sleepy Hollow home of Washington Irving Union Church, Pocantico Hills: short stop to see Chagall and Matisse Hotel check-in (3 nights, continental breakfast included daily): Beekman Arms/Delamater Inn (1766) Dinner at Tavern at Beekman Arms

Thursday • May 17 Boscobel (1804): superb Adamesque house and furnishings West Point (1802): historic views, tour, and lunch in gracious Thayer Hotel (1926) Locust Grove (1850): home of painter-turned-inventor Samuel F. B. Morse Poughkeepsie: Vassar College’s Frances Loeb Art Center FREE EVENING

Friday • May 18 Edgewater (1825): first colonnaded Greek Revival house, home to Gore Vidal, Richard Jenrette FDR Presidential Library & Museum: tour after lunch on your own in Uncle Sam’s Canteen; Springwood FDR Mansion (1826) Vanderbilt Mansion (1895): Gilded Age country mansion, designed by McKim, Mead & White Dinner at Culinary Institute of America

Saturday • May 19 Cedar Grove (1815): home and studio of Hudson River School founder, Thomas Cole Olana (1870): Persian villa of Hudson River painter Frederic Edwin Church – picnic and tour Albany Institute of History & Art (1791, America’s oldest museum): focus on Hudson River School collection Albany airport for return flights

h h h h Historic Hotels: 2 nights in New York City at the Warwick Hotel 3 nights at Delamater Inn (1766), Rhinebeck, designed by Alexander Jackson Davis

Other inclusions: Porterage, 5 breakfasts, 3 lunches, 3 dinners, all ground transportation (chartered coach daily), museum admissions, guides and gratuities; commentary throughout by Austin art historian Karen Pope; travel protection

Cost: $2395 per person, sharing double ($770 additional for single room)

Additional: $200 gift to support operation and programs of historic Neill-Cochran House Museum (Abner Cook, 1855) Airfare (approx. $425)

GROUP SIZE LIMITED TO 20, express your interest and request registration information: [email protected] (All arrangements made for Friends of the NCHM by Karen Bluethman, Heart of Texas Tours, 512-345-2043)

FRIENDS OF THE NEILL-COCHRAN HOUSE MUSEUM STUDY TOUR #14 MAY 14–19, 2018

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Total cost per person (sharing double: $2395; excluding gift to NCHM and travel protection) ! $ 300 Deposit to reserve your place ! $ 200 Separate check to NSCDA-TX for Friends of NCHM due before May 1, 2018 ! $ 2095 Balance due April 1, 2018 (sharing double)--Roommate, if known: ______! $ 770 Single Supplement (additional for single room)

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