Rare Images of the Lorillard Cottage of "Coaching to Pelham" Fame

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The Lorillard Cottage once stood overlooking Eastchester Bay in an area near the location where today's Pelham Bridge reaches the shores of Throgg's Neck.  Images of the "cottage" are somewhat rare.  Built by Pierre Lorillard, Jr., the two story "cottage" was a substantial structure highlighted by a distinctive two-story portico supported by four simple columns that were unfluted and capped with ionic-style capitals.  

Although images of the Lorillard Cottage before it was razed by Robert Moses are somewhat rare, one recently popped up on eBay.  The image gives a clear picture of what the structure looked like at about the end of the 19th century or the very beginning of the 20th century.  

Undated Image of the "Lorillard Cottage" that Once Stood

on Throgg's Neck Near the Foot of the Old Pelham Bridge.

Source:  eBay.  NOTE:  Click on Image to Enlarge.

I have written before about the Lorillard Cottage, a structure that later became the "Arcularius Hotel," as part of an article about the Grand View Hotel that once stood at Pelham Bridge.  See Thu., Jan. 21, 2016:  Research Regarding David Blizzard's 19th Century Grand View Hotel at Pelham Bridge.  In that article I included two additional images of the Lorillard Cottage, taken from tiny engravings depicting the structure on sheet music.

"ARCULARIUS HOTEL"

This is a Tiny Detail, Difficult to Reproduce, From Armstrong,

W.A. & Pratt, Charles E., Coaching To Pelham Song And Chorus

[Music Sheets], Pg. 1 [Cover] (NY, NY: American Music Publishing

Co. 1876). NOTE: Click Image to Enlarge.

Image Depicting the Arcularius Hotel.

This is a Tiny Detail, Difficult to Reproduce, From Speck,

Samuel H., New Rochelle and Pelham Coach Galop [sic],

[Music Sheets], Pg. 1 [Cover] (Boston, MA: Oliver Ditson &

Co., 1876). NOTE: Click Image to Enlarge.

Numerous sources indicate that the Lorillard Cottage was built by Pierre Lorillard II (also known as Pierre Lorillard, Jr.).  For a full biography of Pierre Lorillard II, see "Pierre Lorillard II" in Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia (visited May 14, 2016).  

Pierre Lorillard II was born in New York on September 7, 1764.  He was a son of American tobacco magnate and founder of the Lorillard Tobacco Company, Pierre Abraham Lorillard, and Catherine Moore.  He married Maria Dorothea Schultz in 1788.  The couple lived at 521 Broadway in New York City and had five children.  

Members of the Lorillard family became associated with the areas known today as Bronx Park, Pelham Bay Park, and Throgg's Neck due to the family business.  The original business, started by Pierre Abraham Lorillard was a small snuff-grinding factory located in a rented house in lower Manhattan known as "Lorillard's Snuff and Tobacco Company."  Id.  Peter Abraham Lorillard was killed during the Revolutionary War.  Two of his sons, Pierre Lorillard II and George Lorillard took over the business.  As the business prospered, the Lorillards moved the manufacturing concern in 1792 to an expanded location adjacent to the Bronx River.  Various members of the Lorillard family built a variety of mansions, homes and cottages in the region not far from the manufacturing facility. 

In 1840, the Lorillards build the Lorillard Snuff Mill near an earlier such structure on the Bronx River , a building that still stands and serves as a cafe and meeting space on the grounds of today's New York Botanical Gardens.  

Lorillard Snuff Mill in 2011.

Source:  "Lorillard Snuff Mill" in Wikipedia -- The Free

Encyclopedia (visited May 14, 2016).  NOTE:  Click on

Image to Enlarge.

Among the many such Lorillard structures built in the region was the "Lorillard Cottage" built by Pierre Lorillard II before his death on May 23, 1843.  By 1853, the structure seems to have been converted to a hotel as a map prepared that year seems to refer to the structure simply as "Hotel."

Detail of Map Published in 1853 Showing What

Is Believed to Be the Location of the "Lorillard

Cottage" Naming it "Hotel."  Source:  Detail from

Map Published in 1853, Ten Years After the Death

 of Pierre Lorillard II.  Source: Dripps, Matthew & Conner,

R.F.O., Southern Part of West-Chester County N. Y.

(1853) (Museum of the City of New York, No. 29.100.2628).

NOTE: Click on Image to Enlarge.

By 1853, the Pelham Bridge area and City Island in the Town of Pelham already were known as a summer resort area and a sportsman's paradise.  By the 1870s, a man named George P. Arcularius began operating a hotel named the "Arcularius Hotel" in the Lorillard Cottage.  During the mid-1870s, the Arcularius Hotel became, for a short time, the destination of the famed "Pelham Coach" operated by Col. Delancey Kane.  As the destination for the famous "Tally-Ho" driven by Col. Kane, the Arcularius Hotel became well-known in its own right.  See, e.g., COL. DELANCEY KANE'S COACH -- The Trip to be Made To-Morrow to Pelham Bridge and Back -- The First Passengers, The Sun [NY, NY], Apr. 30, 1876, p. 5, col. 3.

A number of sources of the day indicate that the Arcularius Hotel was established in the old "Pierre Lorillard mansion."  See, e.g., The New Coach Line. Charming Ride to Pelham Bridge, N.Y. Times, May 2, 1876, p. 10 ("Arcularius Hotel is the old Pierre Lorillard mansion, situated on the shore of the Sound, surrounded with beautiful lawns and shade trees, and affording excellent opportunity for boating, fishing, and bathing. There could not be a pleasanter place in which to while away an afternoon."). 

References to the "Lorillard mansion" at Pelham Bridge would seem to be references to the "neat cottage" of "Mr. Pierre Lorillard Jr." that stood on the on the "north side of the neck [i.e., Throgg's Neck] at Pelham Bridge" referred to in Thomas Scharf's History of Westchester County published in 1886.  See Scharf, J. Thomas, History of Westchester County New York, Including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, Which Have Been Annexed to New York City, Vol. I, p. 816 (Philadelphia, PA: L. E. Preston & Co., 1886).

Once New York City acquired Lorillard Point and the Lorillard Cottage as it assembled parcels and estates in the region to create Pelham Bay Park, the property became one of many in the park that were repeatedly misused in a pattern of graft.  Commissioners "rented" the properties for amounts that were well below market rent to cronies and local politicians and other insiders who curried their favor.  

For example, in 1895 the New York Times reported that the secretary of the City Parks Department, Charles De Forest Burns, admitted to one of its reporters that he lived in the Lorillard Cottage rent free and even had his personal coachman carried on the City's payroll as a "laborer."  The newspaper made much of the fact that on his simple City salary, Burns had a vast coterie of "servants" who served him at the Lorillard Cottage.

Later, after the Burns scandal had passed, the Lorillard Cottage was "leased" to the "Tallapoosa Club" for only $25 per month.  The Tallapoosa Club was an organization headed by then-Bronx President Louis Haffen that used the Lorillard Cottage as a hotel and roadhouse  at great profit.

New York City newspapers repeatedly probed misuse of such properties as the Lorillard Cottage.  With each new probe, another great scandal unfolded and played out in the local newspapers for months.  A few examples of such articles that mention the Lorillard Cottage at Pelham Bridge appear below.

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"MAY DISMISS MR. BURNS
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Park Board Not Prepared Yet to Discuss Charges Against Him.
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THE SECRETARY BECOMES ENRAGED
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Admits However, that He Lived in Lorillard Cottage and Employed Brown -- Some Wonder at His Array of Servants.

The Park Commissioners declared yesterday that they were not prepared to discuss in detail the revelations made in THE NEW-YORK TIMES regarding Charles De Forest Burns, the Secretary of the department, and the frauds and pillage at Pelham Bay Park.  They acknowledged that stories affecting Burns, and the manner in which he had lived, rent free, in one of the park houses, using a park laborer as his private watchman, had reached them, and they intimated that these stories had been discussed at their meeting last week, and that some action would probably soon be taken.

'The public may rest assured,' said Col. Cruger, President of the board, 'that we will go to the bottom in all matters affecting the department, and that our action will be as prompt as circumstances will permit.  During the short time we have been in office we have already found much that should be changed, and as fast as we can get at it improvements will be made.  There is much to clean out, I believe, and we will not shirk our duty.'

'Have you decided on any action regarding Burns?' Col. Cruger was asked.

'I cannot speak in advance of what we have decided to do,' was the answer.  'It would not be good policy.'

Commissioner Stiles was equally guarded.  He said the charges made by THE NEW-YORK TIMES would be carefully considered, and prompt action would follow.

'Supposing it is proved to your satisfaction,' said the reporter,  'that Burns occupied the Lorillard cottage without paying the department a cent of rent, and that he caused his coachman to be carried on the city pay rolls as a laborer?'

'Then,' replied Mr. Stiles, with much vehemence, 'I would insist that he be turned out at once.'

This opens a very sorry prospect for Burns, as he himself admitted to a reporter for THE NEW-YORK TIMES that he lived in the Lorillard cottage in Pelham Bay Park, without paying any rental, and there are dozens of persons who can testify that Peter Brown acted as coachman and man of all work for the Secretary during all the time the department pay rolls show that Brown drew regular laborer's pay from the city.

Mr. Burns grew furiously angry when the charges regarding himself and his political friends at Pelham Bay Park were submitted to him.  He first insisted that he did not know any such man as Peter Brown; had never known; but after a time, when his growing excitement made him less cautious, he admitted a rather intimate and extended acquaintance with the man.

'Never heard of a man named Peter Brown,' insisted Mr. Burns in the beginning.  'I don't know that there is such a man.'

'Then he did not act as your coachman during your stay at Pelham Bay Park?'

'No, Sir.'

'You are quite sure of that?'

'I am.'

'As a matter of fact, Mr. Burns,' asked the reporter, 'isn't the man working for you now at your place at Riverdale?'

The Secretary's face grew fiery red, and his rage went beyond all bounds.  He gave vent to a stream of violent language, and finally shouted:

'What business is it of yours who my servants are?  I employ a cook and a housemaid and other servants.  I suppose you want to know who they are.'

The excited Secretary stopped here as if waiting for an answer, and, getting none, he grew angrier than ever, finally blurting out:

'Yes, Peter Brown is my coachman today,' he exclaimed, pounding the table in front of which he sat.  'Whose business is it?  I employ him and I pay him.  He works for me, as he has a right to do.'

'Is he still on the department pay rolls?'

'No, Sir; he is not.'

'But he was.'

'He never was.'

'The pay rolls show it.'

'I don't care what they show, and I will end this interview right here.'

'Did you live in the Lorillard cottage rent free, Mr. Burns?' the reporter asked.

'What of that?  That is an old story,' was the answer given after some moments of hesitation.

'Nothing; only is it true you lived there?'

There was another silence, and then Mr. Burns said:

'Yes, I did.'

'The records do not show that you paid any rental.'

'Perhaps I didn't.  I went to live in the house at the request of the Commissioners, and therefore paid no rent.'

The Commissioners, the Secretary went on in response to questions, had asked him to Pelham Bay Park in order to 'supervise the work that was being done.'

He could not say which of the Commissioners had asked him to move there, and he could not explain how he could supervise the work being carried on, in view of the fact that he had to be in the Chambers Street offices of the department from 9 A.M. until 4 P.M., and it required three hours a day to travel back and forth.  The workmen, in consequence, were just beginning their labors when Mr. Burns left the park, and were just getting through in the evening when he returned.  The Secretary waved all these items aside, and, when he was too closely pressed, he took refuge behind the irrelevant exclamation:

'What business is it of yours who my servants are, who my coachman is, who my cook is?  Simply because I am in a public office, can't I employ whom I please?'

When these little interruptions were overcome, Mr. Burns was asked as to the pillaging of the park by the political gang that has held control there, and as to the doings of 'Jack' Elliott, his personal representative, and the carrying of the other saloon keepers on the department payrolls.

'I don't know anything about them,' answered Mr. Burns to all these questions.

'And William Burke, who, it is alleged, furnished you with a cow and with fresh vegetables in consideration of being carried on the payrolls?'

'Don't know anything about him.  Never heard of Burke in my life.'

This reference to Burke seemed to revive the memory of Peter Brown anew, and the Secretary broke forth wrathfully again:

'Whose business is it whom I employ?'

As to the free cow and vegetables, Mr. Burns declared that the story was 'a lie!'

It is perhaps interesting, in connection with Mr. Burns's statement that he keeps a coachman, cook, housemaid, and other servants, to note that his salary is only $4,000 a year, or less than $80 a week -- a rather slender sum on which to keep up such an establishment.  The men who have known him for many years down town were surprised when they heard of the coachman and the rest.

'What has he got for a coachman to drive?' they asked, and when told that he had a very complete stable outfit, they wanted to know where he could have gotten it.  There are no legitimate sources of income to be drawn on by the Secretary of the Park Department from the city, except the salary, and as Mr. Burns, previous to his advent to this department, had been merely an assistant secretary in the Fire Department, there is much speculation as to the probable manner in which he has grown rich enough to maintain the place where he now lives at Riverdale."

Source:   MAY DISMISS MR. BURNS -- Park Board Not Prepared Yet to Discuss Charges Against Him -- THE SECRETARY BECOMES ENRAGED -- Admits However, that He Lived in Lorillard Cottage and Employed Brown -- Some Wonder at His Array of Servants, N.Y. Times, Nov. 23, 1895, p. 8, col. 1 (NOTE:  Paid subscription required to access via this link.).  Click here for free version.

"MORE 'HONEST' GRAFT.
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Big Houses Leased from City for Small Rents -- Exposed by Metz.

Father Knickerbocker as a landlord is not a success.  Perhaps it is because he is such a plethoric old fellow financially that he does not look too sharply at the acts of his agents.  'See one of the commissioners' he says, possibly, when some one steps into his office in the City Hall to inquire about a house for rent, rattling his cane upon the floor in an irritated sort of way, as if it was too small a matter for him to attend to.  So off to the Park Commissioner or some other official the visitor hurries, almost glad to be out of the presence of the gruff old gentleman.  The visitor finds that he can get almost anything to fit his purse and his taste, from an unsanitary tenement house at $200 a month to a spacious mansion fronting on the shores of Long Island Sound and surrounded by several acres of shaded ground for $25 a month.  Father Knickerbocker's agents, even, will build additions to the better houses, costing several thousands of dollars, for the benefit of the tenants without increasing the rentals.  At least that is what recent investigations indicate.

In Pelham Bay Park are still standing a number of the large country houses which were once the homes of those who owned the estates of which the park were made.  A recent report made to Father Knickerbocker's financial manager, Controller Metz, by the latter's bureau of investigation tells of some of the conditions in the Bronx parks.

The stone De Lancey house, for instance, opposite the bridge leading to Hunter Island, is rented for hotel purposes for $30 a month.  The city added an extension in the rear, containing seven new rooms on the upper floor and a pantry, storeroom and barroom on the main floor, without adding anything to the rent by way of compensation for the increased value of the premises.  The house has large grounds about it and stands on the New Rochelle road, fronting the waters of Long Island Sound.

On the same road, between Bartow and Baychester, is the Pierre Lorillard house.  It stands at the foot of a tree bordered drive on the crest of a gentle slope running down to the edge of Pelham Bay.  It is a three story house with Grecian pillars and presents a stately appearance.  A feature of the interior is the carved black walnut staircase.  This twenty room house is leased by the year at $25 a month to the Tallapoosa Club, known as the club of Louis F. Haffen, the President of the Borough of The Bronx.  It is used as a road house. . . ."

Source:  MORE "HONEST" GRAFT -- Big Houses Leased from City for Small Rents -- Exposed by Metz, N.Y. Tribune, Mar. 31, 1907, Part V, p. 2, cols. 2-4 (NOTE: Paid subscription required to access via this link.).

"SOME NOTABLE VAGARIES IN THE CITY'S SYSTEM OF

LEASING ITS PROPERTY. . . . No. 5.  The Pierre Lorillard

house, in Pelham Bay Park; leased to Louis Haffen's Tallapoosa

Club for $25 a month, and used as a hotel."  Source:  MORE

"HONEST" GRAFT -- Big Houses Leased from City for Small

Rents -- Exposed by Metz, N.Y. Tribune, Mar. 31, 1907,

Part V, p. 2, cols. 2-4 (NOTE:  Paid subscription required to

access via this link.).  NOTE:  Click Image to Enlarge.

"SOME NOTABLE VAGARIES IN THE CITY'S SYSTEM OF

LEASING ITS PROPERTY. . . . No. 2.  The Hunter Island Inn,

in Pelham Bay Park, leased for $30 a month after extensive

improvements by the city."  Source:  MORE

"HONEST" GRAFT -- Big Houses Leased from City for Small

Rents -- Exposed by Metz, N.Y. Tribune, Mar. 31, 1907,

Part V, p. 2, cols. 2-4 (NOTE:  Paid subscription required to

access via this link.).  NOTE:  Click Image to Enlarge.  

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During the nineteenth century, the beauty of the Town of Pelham situated on Long Island Sound attracted wealthy New Yorkers who built stupendous mansions and elegant summer homes on Pelham Neck and along Shore Road overlooking the Sound.  I have written on the histories of many such mansions and their owners.  I have included an extensive list of such postings at the end of today's article.

 

1868 Map Detail Showing Many Pelham Mansions and Summer Homes. 

Source:  Beers, F.W., Atlas of New York and Vicinity,

p. 35 (NY, NY: F.W. Beers, et al., 1868) (plate entitled

"City Island, Pelham Township, Westchester Co., N.Y.

(with) Town of Pelham, Westchester Co., N.Y.").



Today's Historic Pelham Blog posting transcribes a lengthy exerpt from an article published in 1910 that describes many of the mansions that continued to stand at the time in Pelham Bay Park. 

"BRONX PARKS.
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Colonial and Revolutionary Landmarks.
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Homes of Romance, Tradition and Tragedy.
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PELHAM BAY PARK.

Bartow Mansion -- This beautiful and exclusive mansion, displaying such a striking Grecian front of native cut masonry, is a short distance northeast of the Bartow station of the New Haven road, and perhaps a mile south of Hunter's Island.  Standing on what was the Pell estate, it is but a stone's throw east of the fabled site of the ancient Pell manor house, where the manor courts were held and the tenants of Lord Pell would assemble in the early days.  The grizzled veteran of the forest, which up to a year ago stood on the immense grassy lawn in front of the Bartow mansion, was pointed out as the great tree under whose branches Lord Pell signed the celebrate treaty [sic] with the Indian sachems, on Nov. 14, 1654 [sic], the noted Pell treaty oak.  Closer to the water's edge a tiny cemetery proclaims from the quaint inscriptions on its well-worn tombstones that it is the last resting place of several members of the Pell family.  For a number of summers the courtesy of the Bronx park commissioner has enabled the Crippled Children's Asscoiation to have its little members bask in the warm sun and enjoy the cooling and refreshing breezes that circle around the old Bartow mansion.

De Lancey Mansion -- Almost opposite the twin gate posts of Hunter's Island is 'Greystones,' the former splendid residence of William H. DeLancey.  On the walls used to hang the original portrait of the Hon. Caleb Heathcote, lord of the Manor of Scarsdale.  This native stone building has been known as Hunter's Island Inn, and is situated at a sharp curve in the road that has proved such a thorn in the flesh to scorching automobilists.

Hunter Mansion. -- This elaborate stone residence lately used as an inn stands adjoining the athletic field, not far from the picturesque summer house by the shore, commanding a fine view of City Island across Pelham Bay.  Built in the fifties of the last century, it was styled
Annie's Wood' by the late owner E. Des Brosses Hunter, son of John Hunter of Hunter's Island.  It stands on part of the extensive estate of the Bayards, those well-known early settlers who came from France to escape the Huguenots persecution.  One of the three brothers who came as immigrants was Blathazar Bayard, a Huguenot clergyman, who accounts tell us, was shipped from Rochelle, France, in a hogshead.

Hunter's Island Mansion. -- Standing like a massive stone sentinel on the central crest of Hunter's Island in the very northeastern corner of Pelham Bay Park, this splendid old-time structure occupies the grandest location for a private residence along the whole length of Long Island Sound.  Any one who has seen its striking Ionic colonnade, or the magnificent panorama of sea and land, to be obtained from the upper windows, cannot but be lost in admiration of Mr. Hunter's good taste in the selection of a home.  History tells us that the Hunter family were related to that of Gen. Philip Schuyler, of Revolutionary fame.  Certain it is that the Schuyler mansion stood not so very far removed from that of Mr. Hunter, its site being about a mile to the southwest, back of the present Bartow station, and close to the banks of the Hutchinson River, named after that noted early settler, Anne Hutchinson, who braved the dangers of the primeval forest for a home in Pelham Bay Park, where she could enjoy religious freedom.  At one time the Hunter mansion was the residence of Mr. Henderson, a southern gentleman, once a surgeon in the British army, having seen service in distant Asia.  Under his ownership the mansion was a sumptuous bachelor's hall, and the 'Lonely Lord' is found to have made his homestead the palatial home of th finest prvate art gallery of its time in the whole United States, it having been filled to overflowing with the choicest treasures of the Italian masters.  For a number of years past the Hunter mansion has been the summer home of the Little Mothers' Association, and a more beautiful charity cannt be imagined than allowing these hard-worked children of the poor to have the enjoyments that this island affords.

Lorillard Mansion. -- Now known as the Tallapoosa Club House, this once splendid mansion was erected by Pierre Lorillard, Jr., and is a typical example of the grand array of country residences that once were the pride of lower Westchester County.  Its location, just this side of Pelham Bridge, commanding a glorious view of the waters of the sound, whose waves break almost at its very doors, cannot be excelled for romantic beauty.

Marshall Mansion -- Opposite the upper end of City Island and surrounded by a forest of its own the white Marshall mansion rears its stately walls, and presents in its handsome Grecian columns a most striking and picturesque appearance.  The name 'Hawkswood' still clings to the place, and it will not be long before the snaillike horse car of a bygone age will give place to the modern monorail system now under construction, whose dazzling cars are expected to fly past the Marshall mansion at 135 miles an hour.

Morris Mansion -- A few steps west of the Marshall mansion described above, 'Longwood,' A. Newbold M. Morris' late home, occupies one of the finest locations on Pelham neck with a beautiful view to the south.  Not far from this is the old shingle-sided Bowne homestead, near which, according to one account, was the old Pell residence, so located from the fishhawks' nests, which Mr. Pell felt sure would bring good luck to him and his family.

Ogden Mansion. -- In this remote yet romantic nook, on the easterly of the tiny Twin Islands, only reached by a winding roadway over the hills of Hunter's Island, is the magnificent stone Ogden mansion, for a while the home of one of Jacob A. Riis's settlements.  One cannot be but in rapture over the glorious landscape here, yet how few are allowed to enjoy it.

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Source:  BRONX PARKS -- Colonial and Revolutionary Landmarks -- Homes of Romance, Tradition and Tragedy, The Daily Standard Union [Brooklyn, NY], Oct. 17, 1910, p. 9, cols. 3-6. 
 
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Below is a list of prior postings that address the histories of some Pelham mansions and their owners.
 
Mon., May 26, 2014:  James D. Fish and the Mansion He Built that Once Stood on the Most Easterly of the Twin Islands in Pelham. 

Thu., May 15, 2014:  Edgewood, a Grand 19th Century Estate Owned by Frederick Prime Overlooking Long Island Sound. 

Mon., Apr. 28, 2014:  More on The Estate Known as "West Neck" that Once Belonged to Philip B. Schuyler. 

Wed., Apr. 23, 2014:  Philip B. Schuyler and the Burning of the Schuyler Homestead in What Once was Part of Pelham in 1895.

Mon., Mar. 03, 2014:  The Suydam Estate known as “Oakshade” on Shore Road in the Town of Pelham, built by James Augustus Suydam. 
 
Wed., Feb. 26, 2014:  Research Regarding "Greystones," The Elegant DeLancey Estate that Became Hunter Island Inn and Once Stood in Pelham on Today's Shore Road.
 
Fri., Feb. 14, 2014:  Martin Euclid Thompson, the Architect of the Pelham Mansion Known as Hawkswood and the Marshall Mansion.
 
Thu., Feb. 13, 2014:  More Information About Elisha W. King, the Builder and Original Owner of Hawkswood.
 
Mon., Feb. 10, 2014:  Hawkswood, Also Known as the Marshall Mansion, Colonial Hotel and Colonial Inn, Once Stood in Pelham Near City Island.
 
Fri., May 07, 2010:  Image of Hawkswood Published in 1831.
 
Mon., Apr. 26, 2010:  Public Service Commission Couldn't Find Marshall's Corners in 1909.
 
Thu., Jun. 28, 2007:  19th Century Notice of Executor's Sale of "Hawkswood" After Death of Elisha W. King.

Fri., Mar. 2, 2007:  A Brief Account by American Author Margaret Deland of Her Education at Pelham Priory in the 19th Century. 

Thu., Dec. 14, 2006:  Items from Bolton Priory in the Collections of The Henry Luce III Center for the Study of American Culture, The New-York Historical Society.
 
Tue., Oct. 03, 2006:  Two Interesting Photographs of Bolton Priory in Pelham Manor. 
 
Fri., Jul. 28, 2006:  Image of Bolton Priory in the Town of Pelham Published in an 1859 Treatise on Landscape Gardening. 
 
Wed., Jul. 26, 2006:  A Brief Account of Visits to Bolton Priory in the Early 1880s. 

Jul. 5, 2006:  Bricks Laid by Washington Irving and Ivy from Kenilworth Castle at the Bolton Priory in Pelham Manor.
 
Wed., Apr. 5, 2006:  "Hawkswood", Later Known as the Marshall Mansion on Rodman's Neck in Pelham. 

Wed., Mar. 15, 2006:  A Biography of Cornelius W. Bolton Published in 1899.

Wed., Mar. 1, 2006:  1909 Real Estate Advertisement Showing Bolton Priory.

Wed., Dec. 7, 2005:  The Sale and Subdivision of the Bolton Priory Estate in the 1950s. 
 
Fri., Dec. 02, 2005:  John Hunter of Hunter's Island in Pelham, New York. 

Tue., Nov. 29, 2005:  An Early, Interesting Photograph of Bolton Priory in the Village of Pelham Manor. 
 
Thu., Nov. 3, 2005:  President Martin Van Buren's Visit to Pelham in July 1839.

Tue., Aug. 23, 2005:  Society Scandal: The "Strange" Story of Mrs. Adele Livingston Stevens Who Acquired the Bolton Priory in Pelham Manor. 
 
Fri., Jun. 10, 2005:  Pelham's Most Magnificent Wedding Gift: The Bolton Priory.   

Tue., May 3, 2005:  Colonel Frederick Hobbes Allen, An Owner of Bolton Priory in Pelham Manor. 

Bell, Blake A., A Brief History of Bolton Priory in Pelham Manor, The Pelham Weekly, Vol. XIII, No., 16, Apr. 16, 2004, p. 8, col. 2. 

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