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Our time at Foxhollow Farm : a Hudson Valley family remembered

Byars, David, 1956- author

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\"Chronicles the life of an upper-class, mid-Hudson Valley family during the first three decades of the twentieth century. 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 family'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 Alice'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 Alice's son, became a notable painter active in President Roosevelt'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 book's photographs himself, offering a vivid and warmly intimate perspective on privileged early twentieth-century American life\"--From publisher's website.

• Publisher: Excelsior Editions, an imprint of State University of New York Press
• Subject: Dows, Tracy, 1871-1937 Family. / Dows, Tracy, 1871-1937 Homes and haunts Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) / Upper class families Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) Biography. / Manors Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) History 20th century. / Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) Biography. / Rhinebeck Region (N.Y.) Biography. / Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) Social life and customs 20th century. / Rhinebeck Region (N.Y.) Social life and customs 20th century. / Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) History 20th century Pictorial works. / Rhinebeck Region (N.Y.) History 20th century Pictorial works.
• ISBN: 9781438462813

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
F127.H8 B93 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE