A steep, narrow road winds uphill from Quaker Bridge Road in Cortlandt to a century-old estate modeled after a quaint European farmstead.
A towering archway opens onto a cobblestone courtyard surrounded by a stone- and wood-framed stable capped with a clay tile roof built for J.M. Kaplan, who owned Welch’s Grape Juice and later became a prominent philanthropist.
The 48-acre property, in the Teatown area near the Croton-on-Hudson border, is entering a new chapter this summer, after the Danish Home for the Aged sold the estate to the Gurdjieff Foundation of New York in 2023. MORE AT Seeking Deeper Consciousness at a Cortlandt Retreat - River Journal Online - News for Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Irvington, Ossining, Briarcliff Manor, Croton-on-Hudson, Cortlandt and Peekskill
A towering archway opens onto a cobblestone courtyard surrounded by a stone- and wood-framed stable capped with a clay tile roof built for J.M. Kaplan, who owned Welch’s Grape Juice and later became a prominent philanthropist.
The 48-acre property, in the Teatown area near the Croton-on-Hudson border, is entering a new chapter this summer, after the Danish Home for the Aged sold the estate to the Gurdjieff Foundation of New York in 2023. MORE AT Seeking Deeper Consciousness at a Cortlandt Retreat - River Journal Online - News for Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Irvington, Ossining, Briarcliff Manor, Croton-on-Hudson, Cortlandt and Peekskill
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