Barrytown

History

In 1791, Peter and Eleanor Contine kept store at what would later be called Barrytown Landing. Barrytown was named in honor of President Andrew Jackson's Postmaster General, William Taylor Barry, who served in that capacity from 1829 to 1835. Barrytown is about from New York City. The majority of the houses in Barrytown were built in the mid to late nineteenth century, often to house workers at the local estates and accompanying farms. * "Massena" was first part of Livingston Manor and after the Lower Manor was split off, part of Clermont. Upon the death of his mother, Margaret Beekman Livingston, widow of Judge Robert Livingston of the Livingston family, John R. Livingston inherited land, much of which would later become Barrytown. (His sister Alida Livingston Armstrong inherited a section to the south, which would become "Rokeby"). John Livingston built a mansion in the style of a French chateau and called the estate "Massena", after André Massena, one of Napoleon's military commanders. In 1860, New York City merchant, John Aspinwall, purchased "Massena" as a summer home. Aspinwall was a supporter of John Bard and a significant benefactor to St. Stephen's College. In 1874, Jane Aspinwall established the Church of St. John the Evangelist in Barrytown in her husband's memory. Livingston's original mansion burned down in 1885, and Mrs. Aspinwall replaced it with a Victorian Gothic house designed by William Appleton Potter. When the Brothers of the Christian Schools' property in Amawalk was condemned to make way for the New Croton Reservoir, they relocated their novitiate to Pocantico. Around 1929, the Rockefeller family purchased the property. With the proceeds from the sale, the brothers of the New York District purchased the Massena estate at the northern section…

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Largest nearby schools

• RED HOOK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
  High · RED HOOK · 547 students · 9.9:1 ratio
• LINDEN AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL
  Middle · RED HOOK · 404 students · 10.6:1 ratio
• CHANCELLOR LIVINGSTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
  Elementary · RHINEBECK · 383 students · 10.9:1 ratio
• MILL ROAD-INTERMEDIATE GRADES
  Elementary · RED HOOK · 325 students · 9.3:1 ratio
• RHINEBECK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
  High · RHINEBECK · 322 students · 10.7:1 ratio
• MILL ROAD-PRIMARY GRADES
  Elementary · RED HOOK · 309 students · 8.6:1 ratio
• BULKELEY MIDDLE SCHOOL
  Middle · RHINEBECK · 232 students · 9.3:1 ratio