Palisade Interstate Park Headquarters
The Oltman family began coming to the Palisades as a summer retreat in the 1920's. Some time around 1928 they decided to make Alpine their year-round residence. As a result they built a graceful nine-and-a-half-acre estate for Henry Herbert Oltman, a New York City stockbroker, who had named it “Penlyn,” which the Commission acquired in 1939. Because Penlyn had been built in a natural hollow on the cliffs, more or less hidden from the river, it was left standing, and in 1956 it became our Headquarters.
Palisade Interstate Park Headquarters
The Oltman family began coming to the Palisades as a summer retreat in the 1920's. Some time around 1928 they decided to make Alpine their year-round residence. As a result they built a graceful nine-and-a-half-acre estate for Henry Herbert Oltman, a New York City stockbroker, who had named it “Penlyn,” which the Commission acquired in 1939. Because Penlyn had been built in a natural hollow on the cliffs, more or less hidden from the river, it was left standing, and in 1956 it became our Headquarters.