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Livingston
and American aristocracy
Page entitled :
Livingston mansions in the Hudson Valley
Content of this page is about :
Livingston dwellings : the first Livingston Manor House on Roeloff Jansen
Kill and Clermont, the Georgian mansion facing the Catskill mountains
Extract :
... the end of the 18th and throughout the 19th century, the symbol of the
wealth and standing of a family was their house or country estate. In the
case of the colonial and mercantile aristocracy founded by such leading
families as the Livingstons and Van Rensselaers in New York, the manor
houses of early colonial times soon metamorphosed into Georgian ...
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