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Dutchess County Stone Buildings
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Stoutenbourgh House
Val-Kill
Hyde Park Library
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Rhinebeck Post Office
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Hyde Park Post Office
FDR Library
Hyde Park Schools
Top Cottage

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FDR and Dutchess County Stone Buildings

It was not until 1940 that Franklin Roosevelt could focus on the project he most wanted: building a new post office for Hyde Park. For Hyde Park, FDR chose Dr. John Bard's house as a model. Built in 1772 by the grandson of the original patentee of the area, FDR thought the Bard estate was probably the oldest estate in the area. To add to the historical design, builders used fields stone from the former property of John Bard's son, and Olin Dows painted a mural of Hyde Park's history along the walls. President Roosevelt laid the building's cornerstone on November 6, 1940.

Hyde
Park Post Office

Hyde Park Post Office

Mural

Hyde Park Post Office Mural by Olin Dows

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