Blithewood Mansion was built by National Guard captain and real estate mogul Andrew C. Zabriskie, who commissioned four statues for his garden. Each statue would depict one of his four daughters. When tragedy struck and one of his daughters was killed falling out of a window of a New York City apartment, her statue went missing. Rumor has it that her ghost wanders the property in place of the missing statue. In 1951, the mansion was given to Bard College.
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Geographic Information
- Address:
- Blithewood Ave
Dutchess County, NY 12504
United States
Get Directions » - GPS:
- 42.0208155, -73.91700589999999
- County:
- Dutchess County, New York
- Nearest Towns:
- Glasco, NY (2.2 mi.)
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Malden-on-Hudson, NY (5.2 mi.)
East Kingston, NY (5.3 mi.)
Lincoln Park, NY (6.3 mi.)
Contact Information
- Web:
- http://www.bard.edu/campus/facilities/facilities.php?id=29
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You need pictures of this place with your article. There are plenty of them on line.
I worked here for years. It isn’t haunted.