Wave Hill Public Garden & Cultural Center
Hilltop public garden with manicured grounds, wooded paths, and panoramic Hudson River views.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Wave Hill in the Bronx follows Mark Twain, who rented the estate's pale stone mansion in 1901 and wrote to his daughter about its dining room and its winds off the Hudson. It also traces a young Teddy Roosevelt, sent here decades earlier as a frail, asthmatic boy for the clean river air, and considers what those summers may have shaped in him. Pause on the garden path where the mansion's roofline comes into view.
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