Rock Ledge

Rock Ledge is a country estate in southwest Rhinebeck, built around 1904 to 1906 for Mr. and Mrs. William Starr Miller. New York City architects Frank Hoppin and Whitney Warren designed it. The centerpiece is a three-story rusticated stone manor house in the Italian Renaissance manner, with a ceramic tile hipped roof, quoins, arched openings and iron-railed balconies. Around it stand a stone carriage house, a stone barn, a guest cottage, two round pump houses, and, about half a mile away, a stone stable with its own pump house, cistern and slab bridge. Together, nine dependencies and support structures contribute to the estate, which now covers about 401 acres of a once larger 500-acre tract. The estate was listed for its architecture. Its formal, classical design is unusual in a rural setting and sets it apart from other early twentieth-century Rhinebeck estates. Its finely crafted stone outbuildings also continue the local masonry tradition. Later uses included a novitiate, a school and a treatment center, which altered the interiors.