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Rhinecliff, New York

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69: 396: 608:...But no memories of those years survive, save those I have mentioned, and one other, a good deal dimmer, of going to stay one summer with my Aunt Elizabeth, my father's unmarried sister, who had a house at Rhinebeck-on-the-Hudson. ... I can still remember hating everything at Rhinecliff, which, as I saw, on rediscovering it some years later, was an expensive but dour specimen of Hudson River Gothic; and from the first I was obscurely conscious of a queer resemblance between the granite exterior of Aunt Elizabeth and her grimly comfortable home, between her battlemented caps and the turrets of Rhinecliff... 1071: 914: 338: 372:, a real estate developer and owner of the ferry service to Kingston, created a small village around the relocated station. It was originally called Shatzellville, then Boormanville after railroad president James Boorman. Russell's architect and builder, George Veitch, invented the name "Rhinecliff" in reference to Rhinebeck and the nearby cliffs. (Contrary to popular rumor, the hamlet was not named after the 427: 535:
A proposal to build a large contemporary residence overlooking the Hudson on Grinnell Street in the hamlet is generating controversy in Rhinecliff. Several Rhinecliff residents have spoken out against the proposal, objecting to the size of the proposed residence, its modern style, and that it blocks
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The hamlet is demarcated by large agricultural and wooded area to the north, east, and south, and bounded by the Hudson River on the west. Steep topography, formed by contorted slate ridges and valleys, define the site-specific and seemingly random orientation of the small, frame nineteenth-century
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In 2005, the Town Board created the Rhinecliff Hamlet Advisory Council to facilitate communications between the hamlet and town. Goals of the Advisory Council are to work with the community on the protection of the historic hamlet, integration of a multi-use greenway connecting the town with the
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Rhinecliff is also included in the Local Waterfront Redevelopment Program (LWRP). It is designated a Scenic Area of Statewide Significance (SASS), a contributor to the DEC Mid-Hudson Historic Shorelands Scenic District, a contributor to DEC Scenic Roads designations, and is in the Hudson River
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on the west bank to live in the new settlement along the eastern shore of the Hudson. By this time England had already taken over New Netherland, the former Dutch colony that included Manhattan.
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houses and winding narrow roads. The hamlet had a mid-nineteenth century building boom, but its boundaries and building density have changed very little over the last one hundred years.
387:, who owned the nearby Ellerslie estate, constructed and endowed the Morton Memorial Library in Rhinecliff in memory of their daughter Lena. It was dedicated as a library in 1908. 1620: 1004: 821: 639: 1625: 1489: 689: 644: 997: 276: 82: 890: 847: 1595: 435: 935: 52: 1295: 286: 664: 423:, the Rhinecliff CDP has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.6 km), of which 0.02 square miles (0.04 km), or 1.37%, is water. 1456: 1247: 1099: 990: 957: 549: 1149: 227: 1360: 412: 982: 825: 439: 1435: 1227: 1154: 408: 1605: 1325: 1222: 1144: 136: 528:
As part of the town of Rhinebeck, the hamlet of Rhinecliff is included within the jurisdiction of the town government.
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hamlet, appropriate development of the waterfront, and sensitive residential development in outlying areas.
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Historic old Rhinebeck, echoes of two centuries; a Hudson River and post road colonial town
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Rhinecliff is one of the oldest intact hamlets along the Hudson River and is listed in the
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opened in 1851 at Slate Dock and was relocated south to Shatzell's Dock the next year.
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opened around 1855, and the post office was renamed Rhinecliff in 1861.
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Today’s Rhinecliff was founded by Europeans in 1686 as the town of
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estate, which was never formally called "Rhinecliff".) The
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The town is also the setting of the fictional book series
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was a frequent childhood visitor who later described the
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Census-designated places in Dutchess County, New York
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New York (state) populated places on the Hudson River
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Nearby notables, past and/or present, have included
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Kiryas Joel–Poughkeepsie–Newburgh metropolitan area
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Index

Rhinecliff
Census-designated place
Rhinecliff rooftops overlooking the Hudson River in winter
Hudson River
Location of Rhinecliff, New York
41°55′10″N 73°57′4″W / 41.91944°N 73.95111°W / 41.91944; -73.95111
Country
State
New York
County
Dutchess
Town
Rhinebeck
Time zone
UTC-5
Eastern (EST)
DST
UTC-4
ZIP code
Area code
845
FIPS code
GNIS
hamlet
census-designated place
Hudson River
Rhinebeck
Dutchess County
New York
2010 census

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