The Hermitage (Linlithgo, New York)
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The Hermitage was a historic home located at Linlithgo in Columbia County, New York. It was built about 1774 by Robert Livingston for his eldest surviving son, Peter Robert Livingston. It wasn't completed until 1939 by then owner Ida Helen Ogilvie. After her death in 1963, the house remained vacant until 1982 when it was purchased by Margaret Rockefeller and torn down the following year.
History
Peter was the eldest surviving son of Robert Livingston, third and final Lord of Livingston Manor. Upon his death in November 1790, aged eighty-one, Robert broke with the family tradition of leaving the estate to his eldest son and shared Livingston Manor among his five sons. While the eldest, Peter Robert Livingston (1737–1793), inherited "Clermont" proper, Robert devised his land lying east of the Post Road to four of his sons, Walter (who built the adjoining Teviotdale), Robert C., Henry, and John, each receiving about 28,000 acres; the several lots being located from north to south, along the post-road, in the order named. Each received also a part of the domain to the west of that road. Originally the land was covered with timber, principally pine and oak.
When the Hermitage was first constructed, it consisted of "a high basement floor half above the ground, and one floor above that."
"With the expectation of becoming, in the course of nature, the fourth lord of Livingston Manor, Peter R. Livingston began to build for himself a handsome house 3-1/2 miles south of the Manor House.
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