Built as a summer home in 1897 by Edmund Niles Huyck, this stately manor is the first building you’ll see as you enter the campus. With many of the original, period features still intact, each of the seven bedrooms has a distinct design. Many of the rooms have fireplaces and the primary has a private sunroom that overlooks the main lawn.

The common spaces include a formal meeting room, library, living room, and full kitchen. Its most brilliant feature is the large deck that overlooks the yard and Catskill mountains.

Stonecrop is the second turn of the century estate on campus, featuring a stately, spacious living room, formal and informal meeting areas, full kitchen, sheltered porch, and native bluestone terrace that overlooks Lake Myosotis and the Catskills.

Built in 1903 by Francis Conkling Huyck Jr., Stonecrop was modeled after the area’s Greek revival farmhouses. The building has seven bedrooms - three of which have private sunrooms.

Straus is our largest residence, with 23 guest rooms. The lower lounge opens up to an outdoor patio with a campfire area, and the first-floor lounge features a spacious deck overlooking the woods. This building has a large meeting room and three common rooms to accommodate groups that prefer to hold meetings and stay overnight in the same building.

This building opened in 1969 and is named after Gladys Guggenheim Straus and her husband Roger Straus.

Built in 1968, Ford was the first modern building added to the campus to house conference center guests. It was named in honor of Father George B. Ford, a Columbia University chaplain and humanitarian. Father Ford was a close associate of Everett Clinchy, a founder of the Institute on Man and Science, the original conference center on campus.

Ford has 10 bedrooms, each with distinct vintage decor. We encourage you to compare window dressings and wallpaper with your fellow guests!