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PEOPLE WHO MAKE A PLACE

Meet the Mills family, employees, town folk, and visitors.

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Learn more about Staatsburgh’s longest serving butler, Frederick Thompson.

He married the butler’s daughter and left behind an estate of $1.5 million. Meet Herbert Stride…

Staatsburgh’s Housekeeper: An Irish immigrant and nurse to Ruth Mills when she was a child, Catharine Harper rose to the position of housekeeper and was beloved by the family.

Want to work in a historic mansion? Staatsburgh staff created a video for high school students exploring careers in the tourism industry. Watch to get a small taste of what historic house museum work entails.

The summer of 1909 was exciting for Ruth & Ogden Mills; they lived in this house for 2 months and hung out with the King of England!

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