Ruins and Relics Atop Inwood Hill

In the mid to ate 1800s, well-heeled Victorian captains of industry built lavish country homes atop Inwood Hill.  For a few short decades Inwood Hill was like the Hamptons, a weekend getaway for the wealthy, filled with stately mansions, formal gardens, and reflecting pools.  Today the houses are all gone.  Or are they?

On Thursday January 29th at 7:00 PM, local historian Don Rice will show you what is left of the old mansions atop the hill.  He will take to the field (virtually) to show the wells, cisterns, gardens, foundations, reflecting pools, debris fields and architectural remains that blanket the top of Inwood Hill Park.  And he’ll put it all in context.  It will blow your mind to see today’s Inwood Hill Park as a stomping ground for the elite.

Please join us at the Kingsbridge Historical Society at Edgehill for this free presentation OR join virually via Zoom over live stream.  The Zoom link will be posted here just before the event.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

The Kingsbridge Historical Society’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.