Sunnyside

Sunnyside • Route 9, Tarrytown, NY 10591 • Phone: (914) 631-8200 • Hours: Open Wednesday thru Monday, 10 a.m to 5 p.m. Last tour at 4 p.m. • Featuring: Tours, gift and bookshop, free parking, picnic area, special events.

"A little old-fashioned stone mansion, all made up of gable ends and as full of angles and corners as an old cocked hat" is how Washington Irving described his idiosyncratic estate in Tarrytown.

He bought the simple stone Dutch farmhouse in 1832 and, with assistance of landscape painter George Harvey, romanticized it into one of the most endearing houses in the Hudson Valley.

Sunnyside acquired its pagoda-like tower in 1847. The wisteria that Irving planted at the front door is still splendid today. Irving lived here until his death in 1859.

During his life time the house was a popular port of call for writers and other creative people from around the world.