Grasmere is a national historic district and estate located at Rhinebeck, Dutchess County, New York.

Montgomery bought some surrounding land and set to work fencing, ploughing fields, and laying the foundation for a larger home called "Grasmere".

The Grasmere estate was built by the widowed Janet Livingston Montgomery, who had inherited the land from her grandfather.

After moving there in 1805, she rented the Grasmere estate, to her cousin Catherine Duer, daughter of Major General William and Sarah Livingston Alexander.

[4] In 1822, Janet Montgomery sold the property to her sister Joanna, wife of their cousin Peter R. Livingston.

[5] Upon his death in January 1847, the childless widower Peter Livingston, bequeathed the estate to his brother Maturin.

When Maturin died the following November, it then passed to his widow Margaret Lewis Livingston, sole heiress of Gov.

[9][10] Maunsell Schieffelin Crosby ran a successful crop and dairy farm at Grasmere.

In addition to the manor house the contributing buildings / structures include: a barn, three garages, five sheds, the formal gardens, stone walls / gateposts, two corn cribs, two tenant houses (c. 1916), and a stone stable complex (c. 1901).