Troutbeck, Amenia, NY — 2018 Conde Nast Hot List, and recipient of Conde Nast Readers’ Choice Award in 2018, 2019, 2021 & 2022; 2019 AHEAD Award for Best Hotel Renovation, Americas, and the 2019 TripAdvisor Readers’ Choice. A historic estate reanimated. New York's curated and cultivated country house. High design, elevated service, bucolic setting, <90 miles from NYC. For the locavore, entrepreneur, creative, curious, aesthete, athlete, sociable, and the romantic. 37 guestrooms, 3,500 sq ft ballroom, farm-to fork restaurant, gallery, historic walled garden, event barn, pool, bar/grill, tennis, fly fishing, cycling, live events, unique programming, membership, and community. Homesteaded in the 1700s, by the Benton family, Troutbeck is still residential in feeling. The estate once served as a cultural hub for literary greats such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau in addition to housing Myron B. Benton, a poet, officer and farmer. Later, Joel Spingarn, first President of the NAACP, carried forward the Benton tradition, using Troutbeck as an important convening place playing frequent host to Sinclair Lewis, W.E.B du Bois, Langston Hughes, Teddy Roosevelt and Justice Thurgood Marshall amongst others. Today, this unique history manifests in annual event, the Troutbeck Symposium, an ongoing historical research project led by students and local educators to create projects that explore the lesser-known American Histories centered around BIPOC communities. Learn more about Troutbeck's unique history + exciting present, via the link.