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Smithsonian museum founded by Kingston native

Smithsonian museum founded by Kingston native

The Freer Gallery of Art, located at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, is considered to be the nation’s foremost museum of Asian art. The story of its founder, whose phenomenal business success made it all possible, begins in Ulster County, where he was born in 1854 in Kingston to a family descended from Hugo Freer, one of the French Huguenot founders of New Paltz.