Before there was the Kennedy compound on Hyannis or the
Camelot years in the White House, a tween Jacqueline Kennedy
Onassis summered at her uncle John Bishop's sprawling estate
overlooking the Hudson in Nyack. Here she spent her days rid-
ing horses and reveling in river views. Purchased in the 1920s,
Bishop was a Wall Street stockbroker who had the good fortune
of cashing out of the market just before the crash of 1929. At
the 1me, the property was a four-acre parcel, and the house
was the cornerstone of the community. "The house on the hill,"
as the locals refer to it, and the enormous lawn has always had
a natural social magne1sm about it. "History whispers from this
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