Nature programs are based on a changing weekly theme. This is also where programs such as arts and crafts take place and partons may borrow recreational equipment such as balls, rackets, bats and games, etc. Learn to ski programs have become a regular feature fo winter programming through the efforts of Restaurant in the Park operator Joseph Baldwin. Concerts include country, folk and contemporary music. Country line dancing with professional instruction held the 4th Sunday of each month.
Admission is free.
It is an elegant example of the great estates built by America's financial and industrial leaders during the Gilded Age. A 25 room structure was built on the site in 1832 by Morgan Lewis and his wife, Gertrude Livingston. This house was inherited by Ruth Livingston Mills, wife of noted financier and philanthropist Ogden Mills. In 1895, Mr. and Mrs. Mills commissioned the prestigious New York City architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White to remodel and enlarge their Staatsberg home. After completion in 1896, the house was transformed into a Beaux-Arts mansion of 65 rooms and 14 bathrooms.