Tag: Rhinecliff
Rhinecliff is a 17th-century hamlet and National Historic Landmark District, located along the Hudson River, 1 mile west of the town of Rhinebeck in northern Dutchess County, New York. It was founded in 1686 as the town of Kipsbergen by five Dutchmen, among them Hendrikus and Jacobus Kip, who moved from Kingston to live in the settlement along the eastern shore of the Hudson River. In 1849, under the influence of the Hudson River Valley school of painters, the hamlet was given the more picturesque name of Rhinecliff. The name RHINECLIFF was borrowed from the original name of the Jones-Schermerhorn estate, now known as “Wyndcliffe”, but originally called Rhinecliff.
According to Louis Auchincloss, Edith Wharton’s biographer, Mrs. Edith Wharton was a frequent childhood visitor who later described Wyndclyffe as “The Willows” in Hudson River Bracketed.* In her autobiography, A Backward Glance (1933), Mrs. Wharton wrote about Wyndcliffe and her aunt.
Rhinecliff is one of the oldest intact…
