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The Van Alen House

Kinderhook, New York

 

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The Van Alen House or Luykas Van Alen House is a historic Dutch brick farmhouse built in approximately 1737 in the Hudson River valley. Located on NY 9H, about 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Kinderhook village in Columbia County, New York and 2 miles (3.2 km) south of US 9, the house is a National Historic Landmark.

The “Van Alen House” and its farm are believed to have served as the inspiration for homestead of the Van Tassel family in Washington Irving’s short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Irving was a close friend of Kinderhook native (and U.S. President) Martin Van Buren, a neighbor of the “Van Alen House” and a frequent guest in the town.[3] The house is currently operated by the Columbia County Historical Society as a historic house museum showing 18th century Colonial life.

This property (interior and exterior) was a location scene in the 1993 Martin Scorsese film, “The Age of Innocence” starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day-Lewis.

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