2. Duck Pond

Entrance to Springside

WALKING TOUR

2. DUCK POND

“Let us…follow this little path to the left, and up to the head of the gourd-shaped lakelet near the Lodge…. This is a cool retreat at the foot of Maple Hill.”

— Benson J. Lossing, Vassar College and Its Founder, 1867

What is now a modern roadway and parking area was once a duck pond with a footbridge and breeding-house for the water-fowl, an important scenic element of the gatehouse composition. Downing felt that the simplest view was enlivened by the presence of water. Of all water features, he considered a lake or pond the most beautiful.

SITE LOCATION:
185 Academy Street
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
845.454.2060

HOURS:
Dawn Until Dusk

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The Springside Walking Tour is funded, in part, by a grant from the Hudson River Valley Greenway.

The land that now comprises Springside is part of the homelands of the Munsee Lenape, Indigenous peoples who have an enduring connection to this place.

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Mail to: P.0. Box 4915, Poughkeepsie, NY 12602