Bezalel Gables, a hybrid of Victorian architecture that mixes Queen Anne and Stick-style elements, was built in 1873 by Senator Henry S. Ambler, a state senator from New York. 

The double-parlor home sits on 21 pastoral acres and contains 22 rooms, six marble fireplace mantles, bay windows, a ¾ wraparound porch and a square tower with stained-glass windows. 

 It also boasts its original whale-varnished woodwork, hardware, floors, pocket doors and many of the original light fixtures.  The house is painted 11 historic colors that highlight the many architectural details of the structure.

After the Senator’s death in 1905, the house was run as “The Gables” for a short time, offering “first-class board to six or eight adults, ample lawn and shade, and drinking water unsurpassed in purity.”

In 1939, the home was purchased and run as a dairy and cattle farm until 1973. 

In 1999, the house was purchased by David Robinson, now Executive Chef of Bezalel Gables Fine Catering & Events.  It was christened Bezalel Gables - “Bezalel” after the man in the Old Testament of the Bible in the book of Exodus who God filled with His spirit and inspiration to work with the craftsman on building and designing the Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant for Moses.  It seemed an apt metaphor for restoring the house. 

The “Gables” portion of the name was added in tribute to the brief period of time when the house welcomed visitors as an inn.

Today, Bezalel Gables is also the home of Bezalel Gables Fine Catering & Events, a full-service catering company that provides luxuriously handcrafted foods from the Hudson Valley and the Berkshires for both on-site and off-site weddings, parties and corporate events.

“And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the Lord hath called by name Bezalel…and he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship.” – Exodus 35:30-31