Penlyn the Palisade Interstate Park Headquarters

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dc.creatorBeards, Daniel E.
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T14:39:24Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T14:39:24Z
dc.date.issued2008-07-16
dc.descriptionWhen the Palisades Interstate Park Commission was created in 1900 most of the land that would become the park was privately owned with more than a dozen large cliff-top estates. In the early 1930s, John D. Rockefeller Jr. acquired much of this land and donated it to the Commission with the stipulation that a �scenic parkway� was to be built along the cliff. One of those estates was Penlyn, a nine-and-a-half-acre estate built in the late 1920s for Henry Herbert Oltman, a New York City stockbroker. While the other estates were demolished Penlyn converted into the park's headquarters
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10929/157176
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dc.subjectPenlyn
dc.subjectPalisade Interstate Headquarters
dc.subjectPalisades Interstate Park
dc.subjectNational Historic Landmark
dc.subjectThe Palisades
dc.subjectBergen County
dc.subjectGateway
dc.subjectThe Gateway Region
dc.subjectNew Jersey
dc.subjectNJ
dc.subjectJersey
dc.subjectThe Garden State
dc.titlePenlyn the Palisade Interstate Park Headquarters

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