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Glenmere Mansion
Chester, New York, United States · Independent · Core Luxury
Robert Wilson Goelet asked Carrere and Hastings for a Tuscan hill villa in 1911 so his wife Elsie could live as if in Italy. Beatrix Farrand laid out the gardens; Samuel Yellin made the ironwork. The 150-acre Chester estate is now Relais & Chateaux, adults only, looking over Glenmere Lake toward the Catskills. A central cortile, marble-columned porticoes, and Farrand's terraces remain the draw, about an hour from Manhattan.
- 15 rooms
- Opened 2010
- Architect: Carrère and Hastings
About Glenmere Mansion
- Carrere and Hastings designed the 1911 villa for Robert Wilson Goelet in a Tuscan style at Elsie Whelen Goelet's request.
- Beatrix Farrand, America's first widely recognized woman landscape architect, designed the gardens that still structure the 150-acre grounds.
- The house has been Relais & Chateaux since 2011 and operates as adults only.
History
Glenmere was finished in 1911 as Robert Wilson Goelet's country villa at Sugar Loaf in the town of Chester, Orange County. Carrere and Hastings produced an ochre Tuscan house with a courtyard fountain; Beatrix Farrand landscaped the hill; Samuel Yellin supplied ironwork. After later neglect, the mansion reopened as a hotel and joined Relais & Chateaux in 2011.
Amenities
- Spa
- Farrand gardens
- Pool
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