Historic Hudson Valley Estate Atalanta Lists for $22M

Published: August 15, 2016 | By: American Luxury Staff

When Franklin Hughes Delano married Laura Astor, the couple received a 289-acre chunk of land situated in New York’s Hudson River Valley from the Astor family’s famed Rokeby estate. That property has since changed quite a bit and is now available for $22 million.

On their wedding gift the Delanos built Atalanta, formerly known as Steen Valetje (Dutch for Stone Valley), which is a six-bedroom Georgian manor measuring in at a total of 16,000 square feet after a two-wing expansion in the latter part of the 1880s.

Atalanta boasts carved wood panels, fluted columns, beautiful ceiling moldings, and intricate mantelpieces. Of course, the luxury features don’t end there.

The home also sports luxe accents like gold leaf tracery ceilings and walls in the grand dining room, a mahogany-paneled office with a custom ceiling mural, and an era-appropriate sitting room that all but screams luxury craftsmanship from an age long past.

The ornate and meticulously manicured grounds include a three-bedroom farm house, a carriage house with two apartments, a Victorian gardener’s cottage, an eight-stall horse barn with an office near an outdoor dressage ring, a tennis court, and a 75-foot pool with a Greek Temple-themed pool house.

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