29. Summer House Hill

WALKING TOUR

29. SUMMER HOUSE HILL

“Through the interlacing branches where the golden sunlight is playing, we have glimpses of the Summer-house on the little hill by the highway around which Summit Avenue passes….”

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

Although the pleasure grounds are celebrated for their intimate interior views, Downing designed this knoll, with an open-air summer house or pavilion, to provide a view looking out over the Hudson River and to the western hills. Proceed back down the hill:

“…to South Avenue and the portal, and go out into the highway homeward bound, with the treasures of the delightful experience of a summer evening ramble in SPRINGSIDE.”

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

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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.

Springside Landscape Restoration, a 501c3 not-for-profit organization, owns and stewards Springside.
Mail to: P.0. Box 4915, Poughkeepsie, NY 12602