Sleepy Hollow in the Big Apple
Historic Hudson Valley showcases a Sleepy Hollow exhibition and its first app at the Winter Antiques Show in New York City.
The 60th anniversary of John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s founding of Sleepy Hollow Restorations, now Historic Hudson Valley, is celebrated this year in a big way.
According to Historic Hudson Valley, or HHV, New York City’s prestigious Winter Antiques show is featuring a special exhibition: “Celebrating Historic Hudson Valley at 60: Rockefeller patronage in Sleepy Hollow Country.”
The HHV chose to loan pieces to the show which exemplify the multi-generational Rockefeller legacy of research-based collecting, preservation and interpretation of history, including reflections on author Washington Irving, who immortalized Sleepy Hollow and the surrounding Hudson River Valley as “otherworldly places steeped in deep traditions, folklore, magical power, and scenic beauty.”
The exhibition also debuts HHV’s first smartphone and iPad app, Matisse and Chagall in Rockefeller Country, that complements the objects on display and showcases the Matisse and Chagall windows at the Union Church of Pocantico Hills, one of the historic sites which HHV owns and operates. It can be downloaded for free on the web or in Apple’s App Store.
The Winter Antiques Show is open to the public daily, Jan. 20-29, from noon to 8 p.m. (6 p.m. on Sundays and Thursday) at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City.
