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Pleasant enough now—the Monkees song was not written with this place in mind but may well have been—this suburb along Route 44 northeast of Poughkeepsie has something of a chequered past. The 1697 land grant known as Great Nine Partners Patent ceded control of the area to—if historical hearsay can be trusted—a nonet of ruffians, who ruled their lands like lesser mob bosses. In 1821, a rabble-rousing town councilman, Henry Dobson, who called the legality of the land grant into question, was dispatched in brutal fashion; the name change from Charlotte to Pleasant Valley was, in effect, a publicity stunt. The hometown of The Real World: Seattle’s Irene McGee.

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Hudson Valley Architecture: Architect Marcel Breuer’s Mid-Century Modern Houses and Designs in Dutchess County, Upstate NY

With their crisp lines and open-plan interiors, these three residences designed by Bauhaus-trained architect Marcel Breuer still look modern more than 60 years after they were built

By Richard Buttlar