It is sponsored by Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of New York, and provides mental health services to children on an inpatient and outpatient basis.

In 1914, Vincent Astor hired the New York City architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White to design the present building for the facility.

In the mid-20th century, major additions were made to the property, but enough of its original buildings remain for it to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

[2] Ten years later it bought the current property for $1 after another wealthy and prominent part-time resident of the area, Vincent Astor, hired McKim, Mead & White to design the building.

At that point the property consisted of the home, with only its east wing, and the guest cottage, possibly used as a staff residence.

Eight years later, in 1974, it became one of the first mental health facilities in the country accredited by the Joint Commission,[3] and in 1978 began operating Head Start in Dutchess County.

Two of the five buildings and structures on it, the home and a guest cottage, are considered contributing resources to its listing on the National Register.

[1] A short circular driveway leads from Route 9 to the parking lot, where the main building's northern entrance facade dominates.

It is a clapboard-sided frame two-story house on a stone foundation built into a hillside so that only one story is exposed on the north (rear) facade.