The 1877 Glenview mansion is closed for restoration, and its only rentable room holds 35 standing anyway.
Glenview is closed. The Hudson River Museum states on its own Glenview page that the 1877 house is closed to the public for a restoration project and will reopen as soon as possible, with no date given. We checked on 11 September 2026. The museum around it is open and still taking rental inquiries, and its rentals page still lists Glenview’s Billiard Room at 35 standing and 20 seated. Those two facts do not sit together, so confirm before you plan anything. And note the size: the Billiard Room is no one’s reception space.
Two numbers decide whether this campus works for you, and neither is a price. Glenview’s rentable room holds 35 standing, and the museum’s largest indoor room seats 230, or 180 once a dance floor goes in. The fee is quoted case by case and carries unquantified base charges for maintenance and security, so ask for those in dollars. Then ask for the restoration timetable in writing before you commit to a date.
The museum’s Glenview page, its rentals page and its weddings and events page with the full capacity chart, plus its 2021 reopening press release, 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.
Glenview is closed with no reopening date, while the museum’s rentals page still lists its Billiard Room. Confirm availability before planning around the house.
This is the correction that matters most, closure aside. The only rentable space inside Glenview is the Billiard Room, published at 35 for a cocktail reception and 20 seated. Any real wedding on this campus runs in the adjoining museum. The Hudson Room takes 300 for a cocktail reception, 230 seated, or 180 seated with a dance floor. The Lobby takes 120 cocktail and 65 seated. The Courtyard, which must be rented with the Lobby, takes 250 cocktail and 200 seated. The seasonal Amphitheater seats 400. Those are the museum’s own published numbers.
So a listing that sells Glenview as a mansion wedding venue is selling something that does not exist at wedding scale, and right now does not exist at all. The house itself is worth wanting. It was built in 1877 for the stockbroker John Bond Trevor, designed by Charles W. Clinton, and the museum calls it one of the most important early Gilded Age residences. It has appeared as a filming location in the first three seasons of HBO’s The Gilded Age. None of that changes the 35.
Museum rentals are open to the public through an online inquiry form, and the museum recommends inquiring at least three months before the intended date. It does not cater, so you bring your own. Its vendor rule is unusually loose for a historic property: the museum states it holds no restrictions on which vendors you hire, with final vendor contracts subject to its approval.
No price is published. Fees depend on the spaces used, the guest count and the time frame, plus base fees for maintenance and security, and the museum requires a 50% deposit and a separate refundable security deposit with a signed contract. Ask for those base fees as a dollar figure. Ask also, in writing, whether Glenview will be open on your date and what happens to your booking if the restoration runs long.
One more correction while we are here. The address in our source data was Ravine Avenue. The museum publishes 511 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers.
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