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John McNamara stated in his book, History in Asphalt ” that The Park, Riverdale was originally planned in 1856 as the centerpiece or an idealized neighborhood, but this never developed beyond the planning stages. In 1868, it was a small neighborhood park consisting mainly of the South End. The other areas were owned by the Delafield, Dodge, Douglas, and Perkins families, who donated the land to the New York City in the 1940s with the provision that it be kept in its natural state. In 1886, John Thomas Scharf in his ” History of Westchester County: New York, Including Kingsbridge etc. states also that in 1853, the Village of Riverdale was laid out.
A 19th century mansion was built upon the ruins of Fort. No. 3.4 In 1887, Thomas Henry Edsall wrote that “Number Three stood where Warren Bishop Sage’s house now stands, on the easterly brow of Spuyten Duyvil Hill.”5 The Sage mansion would become the Edgehill Inn. ( Georeferencing Spuyten Duyvil’s Hilltop Forts KHS )
This is a 1906 view of the Edgehill Inn located at Edgehill Avenue north of West 227th Street in Spuyten Duyvil. The former Sage Mansion was constructed before the Civil War and became a well-known inn and wedding banquet hall. In 1912, suites with a private bath were available for $12 per week. The inn closed in December 1952.
I do not know when that building became Paulian Hall, but it was a pool hall downstairs and I was in a Bowling League upstairs from about 1969 – 1974.
Jackie, What is the name of the article & publication ? Any more details in the article ? Does it mention Spuyten Duyvil ? Julius Gregory designed many in Tarrytown etc
Julius Gregory (1875-1955) designed 42 homes in Fieldston ( none for Mary Mckelvey )
4600 Delafield Avenue
4620 Delafield Avenue
4526 Delafield Avenue
4570 Delafield Avenue
4645 Delafield Avenue
4667 Delafield Avenue
4690 Henry Hudson Parkway
4715 Delafield Avenue
4543 Delafield Avenue
4756 Delafield Avenue
4561 Fieldston Avenue
5051 Iselin Avenue
4701 Iselin Avenue
4612 Grosvenor Avenue
4646 Grosvenor Avenue
4658 Grosvenor Avenue4666 Grosvenor Avenue
4641 Grosvenor Avenue
4660 Iselin Avenue
300 College Road
274 College Road
319 College Road
271 College Road
4730 Fieldston Road
4615 Livingston Avenue
4660 Livingston Avenue
4680 Livingston Avenue
4670 Waldo Avenue
4686 Waldo Avenue
4530 Fieldston Road
4501 Livingston Avenue
4483 Manhattan College Parkway
4487 Manhattan College Parkway
4491 Manhattan College Parkway
4401 Tibbett Avenue
4411 Tibbett Avenue
4417 Tibbett Avenue
316 West 245th Street
366 West 245th Street
4428 Waldo Avenue
( 1924) Julius Gregory-designed
( 2013) Julius Gregory-designed home