A 1910s Tarrytown estate on more than 25 acres above the Hudson, used for events since 1972, with no published price.
The Belvedere Estate has been hosting events since 1972 and still publishes nothing about what one costs. The house at 723 S Broadway in Tarrytown was built in the 1910s for Florence and Casper Whitney. Dr Philip Gillette Cole bought it in 1928 and renamed it Zeeview. Samuel Bronfman of the Seagram’s family owned it later, and gave it the name it carries now in the 1950s. It sits on more than 25 acres of wooded grounds with a bluff over the Hudson River, and it includes separate buildings, the Agora House and the Studio, alongside the main house. Anyone can inquire. There is no membership and no club. What there also is not: a price, a capacity, a vendor policy, a rain plan or a published end time. PartySlate, which lists the property, states outright that pricing has not been listed. Every term of a wedding here comes out of an email exchange with the estate, and this page is honest that we could not have that exchange for you.
There is no money information here at all. No fee, no minimum, no service charge, and a marketplace that says so in as many words. That makes the estate neither expensive nor cheap, it makes it unquotable from a desk. Assume you are pricing a raw site: rental, caterer, equipment, staffing, and a tent if the weather plan requires one. Get each as a separate number before you set Belvedere against an all inclusive venue.
The estate’s home and about pages, its PartySlate listing, and an indexed caterer page that returned a 404, all read on 11 September 2026. Checked September 2026. First party means the business’s own site or rate card. Marketplace means The Knot, WeddingWire, Zola, Wedding Spot or similar. Nothing here is averaged or estimated.
No price, capacity or vendor rule is published by anyone, and the estate takes film and photo bookings alongside weddings, so ask early if your date is exclusive.
The estate’s own about page gives the chain. Built in the 1910s for Florence and Casper Whitney. Sold in 1928 to Dr Philip Gillette Cole, who renamed it Zeeview. Later owned by Samuel Bronfman of the Seagram’s family, who renamed it Belvedere in the 1950s. In use as an event and meeting space since 1972.
No architect is published. If the design of the building matters to you, that is a question for the estate, and it is the sort of thing a property with this much documented ownership usually knows.
The property includes the main house, the Agora House, the Studio, wooded areas and a bluff overlooking the Hudson. Not one of those spaces carries a published capacity, on the estate’s own site or on its PartySlate listing. No seated number, no cocktail number, no ceremony number, anywhere.
That is the biggest planning gap here. A guest list is the first constraint in every wedding budget, and this property will not tell you where its ceiling sits until you email. Ask for the seated dinner number with a dance floor, building by building, and ask where the rest of the guests go if the dinner is in the main house.
No caterer or vendor policy is published. We chased one lead and it died. A page for the Belvedere Estate on the site of In Thyme Catered Events is indexed by search engines and returned a 404 when we loaded it on 11 September 2026. We cannot confirm an exclusive caterer relationship and we are not implying one.
So ask directly whether the estate requires a caterer, offers a preferred list, or runs an open policy with a kitchen fee. The site mentions no kitchen anywhere, so ask what a caterer would have to bring with them. Equipment, staffing and power are real costs and you want them named early.
The estate markets itself for receptions, wedding ceremonies, meetings, office parties, and location and film shoots. That is an unusually broad offer and it tells you something practical: your date is competing with commercial bookings, not only with other weddings.
Exclusivity is not addressed on the site. Neither is an end time. Ask whether a local noise rule applies to the property and get the hour the music stops written into the contract.
The reason to consider this address is the river. More than 25 acres of grounds, wooded areas and a bluff above the Hudson is a different proposition from a ballroom with a view, and it is the part of the offer the estate leads with.
No rain plan is published. On a property whose appeal is outdoors, that is the question that decides if a tent is required, and a tent decides a large share of the budget. Ask it in the first email.
There is no highlighted phone number, no inquiry form with fields, no rate sheet and no brochure. Inquiries go to the estate’s general email address. The PartySlate profile is unclaimed by the owner, which suggests the estate is not working the marketplaces at all.
Write once and ask for everything together. Available dates, the fee and what it covers, the capacity of each building, the caterer rule, the end time, the rain plan, and any second booking that day. A property that publishes nothing answers a specific list far better than a general enquiry.
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