The Lotus Room: Eastern Light, Gifts and Adventures Morning enters exuberantly in the Lotus Room. Northeast light pours through the windows, framed by deep red drapes, and moves quickly across the floor, up the walls, into the corners. This room, like much of Spillian, is furnished the way our lives are furnished. Through travel and [...]
The Scheherazade Room holds layers: carpets hung above the bed, elephant lamps standing sentinel, antique wardrobes and dressers, old artwork, and a brass genie lamp. A room drawn from The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, and watching over it all, golden and serene, with false eyelashes, is Celeste the Camel. Celeste came to us [...]
“The Whole World is a Garden” At the top of the grand staircase—with its glorious, over-the-top frescoes stretching floor to ceiling—you turn right into the first bedroom. The walls are original pine ship-lap, and across them, painted directly on the shellacked wood—blooms a quiet riot of daisies and dragonflies. They're some of several remarkable frescos [...]
A Summer Kingdom in the Mountains Built in the early 1880s by the Fleischmanns Yeast family, Spillian was part of a sprawling, audacious Catskills estate: eight summer “cottages” on 160 acres, each one built for a member of the Fleischmanns’ first American generation. Today, only Spillian still stands—on 33 acres of mountain forest. The Fleischmanns [...]
Join us for a last blast of celebration in honor of the end of the twelve days of Christmas! On Saturday, January 4, revel your way into 2025 at our Spillian Imaginarium extravaganza: Twelfth Night: A Feast of Fools. Long before New Year’s Eve became a thing, Twelfth Night once echoed with a splendid upside-down [...]
Trout Tales: A Fly-Fishing Celebration on the threshold of the new season, another gathering of the clan… Saturday, March 26, 2016 1-5 PM Fish Fest $10 admittance (includes donation to Trout Unlimited) 5-6 PM Happy Hour Cash Bar 6-8 PM Dinner $25 reservations required! Co-sponsored by: Ashokan Pepacton Chapter of Trout Unlimited Upstate Adventure [...]
This Max Fleischmann was the son of Charles Louis, and nephew of the Max that owned our house. This Max stayed with either his parents or his brother, Julius right down the hill from the mansion stands, where the bonfire meadow and stone stage are now. Like his brothers, Max was an adventurer and explorer, [...]
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