Church review . rendered picturesque by the artof the landscape gardener; the finestand rarest varieties of trees and shrubswere planted, besides gardens for thecultivation of vegetables, fruit andflowers. While this work was in pro-gress, five charming cottages, an im-mense stable and a greenhouse, fourhundred feet long and eighty feet wide,with a great dome rising to a heightof eighty feet from its centre, were be-ing erected. When Mr. Merritt died, in 1873, theestate was considered the handsomeston the Hudson, but it had cost him hisfortune to render it so. It was foundhe had left his heirs
Church review . rendered picturesque by the artof the landscape gardener; the finestand rarest varieties of trees and shrubswere planted, besides gardens for thecultivation of vegetables, fruit andflowers. While this work was in pro-gress, five charming cottages, an im-mense stable and a greenhouse, fourhundred feet long and eighty feet wide,with a great dome rising to a heightof eighty feet from its centre, were be-ing erected. When Mr. Merritt died, in 1873, theestate was considered the handsomeston the Hudson, but it had cost him hisfortune to render it so. It was foundhe had left his heirs scarcely a dollarapart from his country seat. The placelay in comparative neglect for severalyears, and then was purchased by thelate Jay Gould for a sum representingbut a small fraction of its cost to On a picturesque promentory thatjuts into the Hudson north of Tarry-town stands the magnificent countryhouse—half castle, half chateau—erect-ed a few years ago by William Rocke- THE CHURCH IOKKEST CASTLE. feller, the Standard Oil magnate. Al-though the present structure is of toorecent a date to have gathered round iteiations of romantic or historic in-terest, its predecessor on the same sitehad a record that will not be readilyforgotten by residents on the Hudson The Rockefeller property was originally a part of the great Beekman es-tate. It passed through a number ofhands into the possession of WilliamH. Aspinwall. one of the greatest mer-chants that America has produced. was born in New York in1807, and was descended from a familywhich came to this country among theearliest settlers of New England. Al-ter having acquired a good education,young Aspinwall entered the house ofG. G. & S. S. Rowland as a position he occupied until he was taken into partnership bythe firm, with the understanding thathe should receive one-fourth of theprofits of the commission business,which then amounted to about $60,000a year. It was whil
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