Prospectus Issued by the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association in 1874

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I have been working feverishly in almost every spare moment for the last several months to research the history of the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association. Regular readers may recall that I have published a number of blog postings on the topic, including:

Thursday, December 22, 2005: Area Planned for Development by The Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association in 1873

Monday, March 20, 2006: Charles J. Stephens and Henry C. Stephens of the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association

Monday, March 27, 2006: 1057 Esplanade: One of the Original Homes Built by the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association

The reason for my effort is that I will be presenting a paper on the topic during The 27th Conference on New York State History in conjunction with The Association of Public Historians of New York State sponsored by The Herber H. Lehman Center for American History, Columbia University and the New York State Archives Partnership Trust. The conference is scheduled from June 1 through June 3, 2006. A copy of the program for the conference is available here. At 10:15 a.m. on Saturday, June 3, I will present a paper entitled "The Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association: An Analysis of the Effects on Today's Village of Pelham Manor of a 'Failed' Effort to Develop a New York City Railroad Suburb During the 1870s".

During the course of my research, I have located an original "Prospectus" issued by the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association buried in the manuscript collections of the New York Public Library's "Science, Industry and Business Library" located at 188 Madison Avenue at 34th Street. Last Saturday my 9-year-old son and I spent hours in the library poring over the 21-page document. As might be expected, it sheds a great deal of light on the Association and its objectives.

Below is an image of the cover of the Prospectus published in 1804. Beneath that I have transcribed the page to facilitate searching and have provided a full citation to assist those who may wish to see the document themselves.

"PROSPECTUS

OF THE

Pelham Manor and Huguenot Heights

ASSOCIATION,

Organized under the Act of April 5th, 1853, as amended May 10th, 1870.

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OFFICERS:

S. H. WITHERBEE, President. C. J. STEPHENS, Secretary.
H. C. STEPHENS, Treasurer. R. M. MITCHILL, Sup’t.
E. G. SPILSBURY, Engineer.

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NEW YORK OFFICE

WITH

STEPHENS BROTHERS & COMPANY,

187 BROADWAY,

BETWEEN DEY AND COURTLANDT STREETS.

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New York :

JAMES HUGGINS, BOOK AND JOB PRINTER, 372 PEARL STREET.
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1874."

Source: Prospectus of the Pelham Manor and Huguenot Heights Association, Organized Under the Act of April 5th, 1853, as amended May 10th, 1870, p. 1 (NY, NY: James Huggins, Book & Job Printer 1874) (bound as item 6 in bound volume, call no. TB p.v. 1643, collections of the Science, Industry and Business Library collection of the New York Public Library).

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