Woodstock, NY Real Estate — Homes For Sale in Woodstock, NY

Wonderful Woodstock has always been charming and unique and passionate - about everything! From a sleepy mountain town to becoming an ARTS mecca in the latter half of the 18th Century to becoming the music center for all pop, rock, folk music of the 1960's , 70's and beyond. All of that still lives on in Woodstock and yet the small town feel is still surviving. Thriving restaurants, gorgeous boutiques, community and semi-professional theatres abound - Performing Arts of Woodstock, Bird-On-A-Cliff Theatre Company (free Shakespeare at the Comeau property), Byrdcliffe Guild Theatre, the Woodstock Playhouse. Along with several small boutique hotels and B&B's Woodstock is a walkers and hikers dream. You can find fabulous fishing spots. Or play golf, or tennis, or just stroll around town. It's all there! less

The first non-indigenous settler arrived around 1770. The Town of Woodstock was established in 1787. Later, Woodstock contributed some of its territory to form the towns of Middletown (1789), Windham (1798), Shandaken (1804), and Olive (1853).[citation needed] Woodstock played host to numerous Hudson River School painters during the late 1800s. The Arts and Crafts Movement came to Woodstock in 1902, with the arrival of Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead, Bolton Brown and Hervey White, who formed the Byrdcliffe Colony. In 1906, L. Birge Harrison and others founded the Summer School of the Art Students League of New York in the area, primarily for landscape painting. Ever since, Woodstock has been considered an active artists colony. From 1915 through 1931, Hervey White's Maverick Art Colony held the Maverick Festivals, "in which hundreds of free spirits gathered each summer for music, art, theater and drunken orgies in the woods."[4][5] A series of Woodstock Sound-Outs were staged at Pan Copeland's Farm just over the town line in Saugerties from 1967 to 1970.[6] These featured folk and rock acts like Richie Havens, Paul Butterfield, Dave van Ronk and Van Morrison and were identified with Woodstock's reputation as a summer arts colony. The Sound-Outs inspired the original Woodstock Festival's organizers to plan their concert at the Winston Farm in Saugerties; however, the town turned down their permit,[7] and the "Woodstock" Festival was actually held almost 60 miles (97 km) away at Max Yasgur's Farm in the town of Bethel.[8] Woodstock is also home to the Karma Triyana Dharmachakra Buddhist monastery, situated at the top of Mead's Mountain Road. less