Reese Denny Alsop Gilder Palmer

Born on June 1st, 1951, Reese Denny Alsop Gilder Palmer (R.D.A.G.P.) is the youngest son of Richard Gilder ("Gilly") Palmer and Anne Spring Alsop Gilder Palmer.

Reese's father, Gilder Palmer, was the oldest son of Walter Walker Palmer and Helena Francesca Gilder — the second youngest daughter of Richard Watson Gilder and Helena de Kay Gilder, founders of Gramercy Park and of the historic Four Brooks Farm in Tyringham, Massachusetts.

Walter Walker Palmer, a prominent Harvard physician, was a relative of Chicago-American businessman Potter Palmer, husband of Bertha. The Palmer family originated in Stonington, Connecticut.

Reese is the fourth generation to own and live at Four Brooks Farm, and has been a caregiver to three generations of the Palmer and Gilder de Kay families. Known for his kind heart and compassion, Reese is an avid biker, photography artist, poet, runner, and humanitarian — the oracle of ancestral history in this noted American family.

For more than four decades, Reese has lived, worked, and sacrificed at Four Brooks Farm, inheriting the daily labor of land management, repairs, caregiving, and the emotional weight of maintaining the ancestral home. He remained on the land through every hardship — weather, isolation, illness, and financial strain — caring for both parents through old age.

In recognition of forty-five-plus years of farming, land stewardship, and devoted caregiving, Reese was promised all of Four Brooks Farm by his parents. Today he remains the living guardian of the Gilder Palmer legacy and the central figure in the ongoing effort to preserve Four Brooks Farm as a museum and cultural sanctuary.