Rhinecliff
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 Location of Rhinecliff in County and New York
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1686 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | new York |
| County : | Dutchess County |
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 55 ′ N , 73 ° 57 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) |
| Residents : | 425 (as of 2010) |
| Population density : | 164.7 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 2.61 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) of which 2.58 km 2 (approx. 1 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 17 m |
| Postal code : | 12574 |
| Area code : | +1 845 |
| FIPS : | 36-61368 |
| GNIS ID : | 962439 |
Rhinecliff is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) on the Hudson River in the Town of Rhinebeck in northern Dutchess County , New York . At the time of the United States Census 2010 , Rhinecliff had 425 residents.
geography
Rhinecliff is to the west of the Town of Rhinebeck, one and a half kilometers west of the Village of Rhinebeck , directly across from the mouth of Rondout Creek in the City of Kingston on the other side of the Hudson River. Rhinecliff is connected to the city via the Kingston – Rhinecliff Bridge ( New York State Route 199 ), just under seven kilometers north of Rhinecliff. According to the United States Census Bureau , the census-designated place has a total area of 2.61 km 2 , of which 2.58 km 2 is land and 0.04 km 2 (or 1.37%) is water.
The hamlet is surrounded by fields, meadows and forests in the north, east and south; to the west is the Hudson River . The topography with deeply cut gullies and valleys laid the location of the narrow, winding streets and the orientation of the small houses from the 19th century.
history
Rhinecliff was founded in 1686 by five Dutch people under the name Kipsbergen, including Hendrikus and Jacobus Kip from Kingston ; In 1849, under the influence of the Hudson River School, the place was given the more picturesque name Rhinecliff , the original name of the Jones Schermerhorn manor, now known as Wyndcliffe .
Rhinecliff is one of the oldest intact settlements on the Hudson River and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributor to the Hudson River National Historic Landmark District . With a length of around 30 km, this historic district is the largest National Historic Landmark (NHL) in the country.
Rhinecliff in culture
According to Louis Auchincloss , Edith Wharton's biographer , she was a regular at Rhinecliff in her childhood. She later described Wyndcliffe in Hudson River Bracketed as "The Willows". In her autobiography, A Backward Glance (published 1933), Wharton wrote of Wyndcliffe and her aunt:
“… But no memories of those years survive, save those I have mentioned, and one other, a good deal dimmer, of going to stay one summer with my Aunt Elizabeth, my father's unmarried sister, who had a house at Rhinebeck-on- the-Hudson. … I can still remember hating everything at Rhinecliff, which, as I saw, on rediscovering it some years later, was an expensive but dour specimen of Hudson River Gothic; and from the first I was obscurely conscious of a queer resemblance between the granite exterior of Aunt Elizabeth and her grimly comfortable home, between her battlemented caps and the turrets of Rhinecliff ... "
“… But no memories have survived from those years, apart from the ones I mentioned, and another, somewhat more vague, of a summer stay with my aunt Elizabeth, my father's unmarried sister, who has a house in Rhinebeck-on -the-Hudson had. ... I can still remember hating everything about Rhinecliff, which I discovered when I rediscovered it a few years later was an expensive but morose example of Hudson River gothic; and right from the start I was vaguely aware of a peculiar resemblance between the granite exterior of Aunt Elizabeth and her bleakly comfortable house, between her tinned hoods and the turrets of Rhinecliff ... "
Known residents
Known residents include or included Levi P. Morton , Vincent Astor , Natalie Merchant, and Annie Leibovitz .
supporting documents
- ↑ a b Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Rhinecliff CDP, New York ( English ) US Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved April 20, 2018.
- ^ Edith Wharton: A Backward Glance . Lulu Press, 2013, ISBN 1-291-63720-6 .
Web links
- Morton Memorial Library and Community House
- Rhinecliff.org , local community website