The drawing room at Locust Grove.
Inside Locust Grove.
  • Inventor Samuel F. B. Morse spent summers at his Locust Grove Estate in New York's Hudson Valley.
  • The 14,000-square-foot Italianate villa, built in 1852, has 45 rooms over six floors.
  • It was purchased in 1901 by the Young family and has remained uniquely preserved.

When Samuel F. B. Morse wasn't creating Morse code, inventing the telegraph, or painting portraits, he was relaxing on the grounds of his Locust Grove Estate in upstate New York.