Upstate Mansion Makes USA Today’s “Best Historic Holiday Home Tours” List

Have you ever wondered how New York’s elite celebrated Christmas back in the Gilded Age, when holiday décor meant real garland, candlelight, and rooms big enough for a dozen Christmas trees?

In that case, there’s a place about 80 minutes south of Albany where you can experience it firsthand. loading...

The Staatsburgh State Historic Site in Staatsburg, NY, has been nominated by USA Today’s 10 Best Readers’ Choice Awards as one of the nation’s Best Historic Holiday Home Tours.

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Transforms into a Christmas Wonderland

This stunning mansion , once home to the wealthy Mills family, transforms into a 19th-century Christmas wonderland each year.

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