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Luykas Van Alen House, Kinderhook, NY

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Luykas Van Alen House

Restored 18th-century Dutch farmhouse museum in Kinderhook, run by the Columbia County Historical Society.

2589 Route 9H, Kinderhook, NY · Kinderhook, NY

About Luykas Van Alen House

This house museum in Kinderhook preserves a rural Dutch farmstead from the 1700s in the Hudson Valley. The site received national landmark status in 1967. It was once the hub of a successful farm and passed through several generations of the Van Alen family. The last Van Alen to live there died in 1935. A later owner, a family descendant, donated the house to the Columbia County Historical Society in 1964. The property covers about 33 acres and also includes a c. 1850 schoolhouse, a heritage walking trail, and a farming heritage trail linking to Martin Van Buren's Lindenwald.

  • #Dutch colonial
  • #house museum
  • #national historic landmark
  • #farm history
  • #family friendly

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