Riverby

Infobox_nrhp | name =John Burroughs' Riverby Study
nrhp_type = nhl


caption =
location= West Park, New York
lat_degrees = 41 | lat_minutes = 48 | lat_seconds = 0 | lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 73 | long_minutes = 57 | long_seconds = 32 | long_direction = W
locmapin=New York
area =
built =1881
architect= John Burroughs
architecture=
designated= November 24, 1968cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=792&ResourceType=Building
title=John Burroughs' Riverby Study|date=2007-09-18|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = November 24, 1968cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=68000035

Riverby was the estate of American naturalist John Burroughs 1837-1921, who wrote and created a genre of naturalist essays. Riverby is also the title of one of John Burrough's books, published in 1904, and is also the name of an edition of his collected works. Burrough's study at Riverby is a National Historic Landmark.

The Riverby estate is located above the west bank of the Hudson River, in the town of West Park, in Ulster County, New York. Burroughs bought a convert|9|acre|m2|sing=on farm there in 1873, and added additional land later. The estate included a main house, a writing study lower on the slope towards the Hudson River, a building that his son lived in during years when Burroughs primarily used the study, and other buildings.

In the study, which looks east over the Hudson River, Burroughs wrote "Fresh Fields" (1884), "Signs and Seasons" (1886), "Indoor Studies" (1889), and "Riverby" (1894), and he edited other works.

Theodore Roosevelt and many others visited John in the study.Fact|date=February 2008

He also wrote in Woodchuck Lodge, a lodge in Roxbury in the western Catskills of Delaware County, New York, that he used in summers from 1895 on, and Slabsides, a cabin one mile (1.6 km) east of Riverby that he used from 1908 on.

The study was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968.cite web|last=Greenwood|first=Richard|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Riverby, the John Burroughs Study |url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=9739 |date=December 11, 1975|accessdate=2008-01-09] The study is lined with books and, up to 1975 at least, had been preserved essentially as Burroughs left it.

The home is maintained by the Burroughs Society.Fact|date=December 2007

The collection of buildings on the estate has been split up among the heirs, and they discourage visiting the site. [ [http://academic2.marist.edu/foy/esopus/photo10.htm Current description of property and emails from former resident] ]

ee also

* Slabsides
* Woodchuck Lodge

References

External links

* [http://academic2.marist.edu/foy/esopus/essays/john_burroughs.htm 'John Burroughs: Naturalist of West Park']
* [http://academic2.marist.edu/foy/esopus/photo10.htm Photos of Riverby]
* [http://www.hopefarm.com/riverby.htm another external link]