Hours of Operation
The Montgomery Place grounds are open daily from sunrise to sunset.
Tours of the Mansion
The house will be open for tours for these dates and times:
• Saturday, September 13: 10:30 am and noon
• Saturday, September 27: 10:30 am and noon
Space is limited and spots are first come, first served (no reservations possible right now). Visitors may park at the visitor center and walk to the front door of the mansion. There will be no tours scheduled in October, but we will resume on a limited basis in November. Watch for our new website with an online ticketing calendar coming soon!
Bard Faculty Class Visits and Collection Study: Please contact [email protected] for all questions related to class visits and collections study.
Visual Poetry of the Hudson Valley New York
Once and Still Upon This Land
by Bonney Hartley
Bonney Hartley was commissioned by Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck as a part of Returning Home: a Contemporary Native Photography Exhibition held at the Montgomery Place Bard Campus in the mansion to write a poem. "My piece is offered to foreground and activate Returning Home with an archaeological reflection through layers of home, the land, inhabitation, removal, memory, and continuance," says Hartley in her artist statement.
Student Sculpture Exhibition
Professor Arthur Gibbons’s sculpture class moves outdoors at Montgomery Place! Nine artists have created site-specific works installed throughout the grounds, responding to the landscape and activating the surrounding environs and their features.
Digital Collections
Digital Exhibitions
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This digital presentation was produced by students in a Bard College course entitled The Window at Montgomery Place, taught by Professor Myra Young Armstead. As a combined History and Experimental Humanities course, the class provided students with the opportunity to think creatively and artistically of ways to use visual electronic media technologies to present historical narratives. Using Alexander Gilson's life as a reference, the images address the themes of slavery, gardening at Montgomery Place, business and property ownership, and family/community connections. -
Violetta White Delafield lived at Montgomery Place with her husband, John Ross Delafield, and their children from 1922 until her death in 1949. As a young woman, Violetta took an interest in botany and began to collect various fungi specimens in the rural Northeast, publishing scholarly works on the mushroom specimens she collected. As with most women in the sciences, her studies were viewed as "amateur." In spite of this, Violetta continued to collect and document specimens. This student-curated exhibition showcases some of Delafield's research.
Podcast: The Montgomery Place Story
Listen to Professor Myra Young Armstead, Montgomery Place Director Amy Husten, Arboretum Director Amy Parrella '99, and College Archivist Helene Tieger '85 talk about the history of Montgomery Place and how it's become part of the Bard story.
Audio Transcript PDF