Editing Briarcliff Manor, New York (section)

== Arts and culture ==
[[File:Memorial Day in Briarcliff Manor.jpg|thumb|left|alt=Uniformed men and civilians standing before a memorial at a park|American Legion and [[Briarcliff Manor Fire Department|BMFD]] members alongside village residents at the annual Memorial Day ceremony]]
The village symbol is the [[Briarcliff Rose]], a more brightly colored offshoot of the [[American Beauty rose]].<ref name="pamphlet"/> Since 2006, the Briarcliff Rose has been used on village street signs.<ref name="RoseStreetSigns"/> The Briarcliff Manor Garden Club, which also uses the Briarcliff rose as their symbol, was established in 1956.<ref name="Changing Landscape"/>{{rp|page=151}} One of its primary functions is in planting, maintaining, and improving public gardens and grounds.<ref name="GardenClub"/>

Briarcliff Manor has groups in several [[Scouting in the United States|Scouting]] organizations, including [[Cub Scouting (Boy Scouts of America)|Cub Scout]] Pack 6 and [[Boy Scouts of America|Boy Scout]] Troop 18.<ref name="CubPacks"/><ref name="ScoutTroops"/> Pack 6 became the first Cub Scout pack in the village at its establishment in 1968; by 2002 it had over 70 cubs in 12 dens.<ref name="FamilyAlbum"/>{{rp|page=42}} The village's first Boy Scout troop was Troop 1 Briarcliff, founded before 1919. Sources cite Bill Buffman as the first Scoutmaster and [[John Hersey]] as the troop's first [[Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America)|Eagle Scout]]. The first Girl Scout troop in the village was founded in 1917 by Louise Miller and Mrs. Alfred Jones, and the first [[Membership levels of the Girl Scouts of the USA#History|Brownie]] troop was founded in 1929.<ref name="Changing Landscape"/>{{rp|page=77}}<ref name="MemorialDay"/>

The Briarcliff Manor Community Bonfire is a winter holiday event at Law Park, hosted by the village and the Briarcliff Friends of the Arts, involving live music (primarily seasonal and holiday songs), refreshments, and craft projects for children.<ref name="Bonfire"/> Another annual community event is the Memorial Day parade, a tradition in Briarcliff Manor for more than fifty years.<ref name="MemorialDayParade"/> Before the parade begins, the Municipal Building's bell is rung to commemorate firefighters who have died in the previous year;<ref name="BMFDhistory"/> the parade ends at the village's war memorial in Law Park, where wreaths are laid on the monument. The holiday has been celebrated in the village since the early 1900s, though initially involving large family picnics, with parades reserved for the [[Fourth of July]].<ref name="MemorialDay"/>

=== Historical society ===
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Briarcliff Manor maintains strong ties to its history and traditions. During Briarcliff Manor's 1952 semicentennial, nine people served on the Historical Committee and published a village history book. In March 1974, after the mayor appointed twelve people for a 75th anniversary committee, the committee began by forming the [[Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough Historical Society]] (BMSHS). The historical society published an updated village history (''A Village Between Two Rivers: Briarcliff Manor'') in 1977, marking the 75th anniversary of the village. The historical society was initially located at the since-demolished Briarcliff Middle School building; it later moved to the second floor of a realty building on Pleasantville Road, and moved back to the school building after it was leased by Pace University.<ref name="Changing Landscape"/>{{rp|page=195}} On March 21, 2010, the BMSHS was given a permanent location at the Eileen O'Connor Weber Historical Center, established as part of the expanded Briarcliff Manor Public Library.<ref name="HistSociety"/> Members of the historical society joined the nine-member Centennial Committee in 2002 to organize events for Briarcliff Manor's centennial.<ref name="Centennial"/>

The Centennial Committee and BMSHS helped organize several events for the village's 2002 centennial celebration, including the Centennial Variety Show at the Briarcliff High School auditorium in a sold-out two-night run on April 26–27, 2002.<ref name="FamilyAlbum"/>{{rp|page=62}} The two-act show consisted of interpretations of village life by village organizations and a [[revue]] of Briarcliff Manor history in skits and songs.<ref name="Centennial"/> Other society-sponsored events have included tours of homes and churches, bus tours, Hudson River cruises on historic boats such as the [[MV Commander|M/V ''Commander'']] (built in 1917 and listed on the national and state registers of historic places), dances, antique-car exhibits, day trips to historic points of interest, art exhibits, and events with authors and elected officials.<ref name="HistSociety"/>

=== Historic sites ===
{{Hatnote|Further information: [[National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Westchester County, New York|National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Westchester]]}}
[[File:Woodlea in Briarcliff Manor.tiff|thumb|left|alt=A three-story beige Renaissance Revival mansion|The 1895 [[McKim, Mead & White]]–designed mansion [[Woodlea]]]]

Briarcliff Manor is home to a number of historic buildings and districts. Buildings on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] include [[All Saints' Episcopal Church (Briarcliff Manor, New York)|All Saints' Episcopal Church]] (added May 14, 2002),<ref name="WCHS"/> [[Carrie Chapman Catt]]'s house [[Juniper Ledge]] (added March 4, 2006)<ref name="CattNRHP"/><ref name="CattNRHP2"/> and several structures in the {{convert|376|acre|ha|adj=on}} [[Scarborough Historic District]] (added September 7, 1984).<ref name="WCHS"/><ref name="nris"/> Part of the [[Croton Aqueduct#Old Croton Trail|Old Croton Aqueduct State Historic Park]], controlled by the [[New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation]], lies within the village.<ref name="USParks"/> The Old Croton Aqueduct is on the National Register and is a [[List of National Historic Landmarks in New York|National Historic Landmark]].<ref name="nris"/><ref name="nhlsum"/>

Although Catt's house Juniper Ledge is within Briarcliff Manor's postal boundaries, the property is located within the municipal boundaries of the nearby town of [[New Castle, New York|New Castle]]. Briarcliff Manor composer and historian [[Carmino Ravosa]] initiated the house's preservation by researching and initiating the nomination of Juniper Ledge to the National Register.<ref name="CattNRHP"/><ref name="HartfordAlumni"/><ref name="ExaminerCatt"/>
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=== Houses of worship ===
[[File:AllSaintsBriarcliff.jpg|thumb|alt=Stone English Gothic–style church with red door|[[All Saints' Episcopal Church (Briarcliff Manor, New York)|All Saints' Episcopal Church]]]]

Briarcliff Manor is home to seven Christian churches and two synagogues; three churches (Holy Innocents Anglican Church, Saint Mary's Church and Scarborough Presbyterian Church) are in Scarborough. Other churches in the village are All Saints' Episcopal Church, St. Theresa's Catholic Church, Faith Lutheran Brethren Church, and Briarcliff Congregational Church ([[United Church of Christ]]). Jewish synagogues Congregation Sons of Israel and [[Chabad Lubavitch]] of Briarcliff Manor & Ossining are in Chilmark.<ref name="pamphlet"/><ref name="ListOfCongregations"/>

Saint Mary's Episcopal Church, founded in 1839 by William Creighton as Saint Mary's Church, Beechwood, is Briarcliff Manor's oldest church; it was reincorporated in 1945 as Saint Mary's Church of Scarborough.<ref name="1952history"/>{{rp|page=28}} The granite church was built by local stonemasons and paid for by Creighton's wealthy neighbors, including [[Commodore Matthew Perry]], [[James Watson Webb]], [[William Aspinwall]], and [[Ambrose Kingsland]].<ref name="Changing Landscape"/>{{rp|page=19}}<ref name="NYTScarborough"/> The church is in near-original condition, with a design based on the 14th-century [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] St. Mary's parish church in [[Scarborough, North Yorkshire|Scarborough]], England and the only church with a complete set of [[William Jay Bolton]] stained-glass windows.<ref name="pamphlet"/> The church, built in 1851, is a contributing property to the National Register-listed Scarborough Historic District. The {{convert|338|acre|ha|adj=on}} [[Sleepy Hollow Country Club]] surrounds the church grounds on three sides.<ref name="ScHD"/> Notable parishioners included Commodore [[Matthew C. Perry]] and [[Washington Irving]]. Irving, author of "[[Rip Van Winkle]]" and "[[The Legend of Sleepy Hollow]]", brought the ivy surrounding the church from [[Abbotsford House|Abbotsford]] (home of [[Walter Scott]]).<ref name="1939history"/> On July 5, 2015, Saint Mary's Episcopal Church closed after 175 years in operation;<ref name="StMary'sClosing"/> the [[Church of South India]]'s Congregation of the Hudson Valley moved in that November.<ref name="India"/>

Scarborough Presbyterian Church, given to the community by [[Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard]] and her husband Colonel [[Elliott Fitch Shepard]] (who lived on the nearby [[Woodlea]] estate), was the first church in the United States with an electric organ.<ref name="pamphlet"/> Built in 1895 and designed by Augustus Haydel (a nephew of [[Stanford White]]) and Shepard (a nephew of Elliott Shepard)—who designed the 1899 Fabbri Mansion in Manhattan—the {{convert|3|acre|ha|adj=on}} church property is also part of the Scarborough Historic District.<ref name="ScHD"/><ref name="ScPresbHistory"/>

All Saints' Episcopal Church is a stone church also on the National Register of Historic Places. It was founded in 1854 by John David Ogilby, whose summer estate and family home in Ireland were the namesakes of Briarcliff Manor. The [[Gothic Revival]] church, built on Ogilby's summer estate,<ref name="nris"/> was designed by [[Richard Upjohn]] and modeled on Saint Andrew's in [[Bemerton]], England.<ref name="Changing Landscape"/>{{rp|page=21}}<ref name="asecNRHP"/> The church, with an 1883 [[Stick style]] rectory and 1904 [[Arts and Crafts]]-style parish hall, is an example of the modest English Gothic parish church popular in the region during the mid-19th century.<ref name="asecNRHP"/>
[[File:St.Theresa's Church in Briarcliff Manor.tiff|thumb|left|alt=A large stone church|St. Theresa's Catholic Church]]
The parish of St. Theresa's Catholic Church was established in 1926 with thirty-six families, and the present church was dedicated on September 23, 1928.<ref name="StTheresaHistory"/> The [[rectory]] of the church was the original farmhouse of Briarcliff Farms.<ref name="LodgeBook"/>

Faith Lutheran Brethren Church had its 1959 beginning in a white chapel in [[Scarsdale]]. Its congregation then sold the chapel and moved to its {{convert|2|acre|ha|adj=on|sigfig=1}} current site in Briarcliff Manor. The church, built largely through volunteer labor by the congregation's twelve families, held its first service on October 8, 1967. A nursery-school program, the Little School, began in 1972 and the church also sponsors women's and youth groups.<ref name="1977history"/>{{rp|page=75}}

Briarcliff Congregational Church, built in 1896, has windows by [[Louis Comfort Tiffany]], [[William Willet]], [[J&R Lamb Studios]], [[Hardman & Co.]], and Woodhaven.<ref name="pamphlet"/> The church began in a small, one-room schoolhouse (known as the "white school"), built around 1865 and used as a school, a religious school, and a house of worship for up to 60 people. In 1896, George A. Todd Jr. asked Walter Law to support the construction of a new church. Law donated the church land, making his new church a Congregational one so the entire community (regardless of religious background) could attend. The [[nave]] and a [[Norman architecture|Norman]]-style tower were built first, in an English-parish style with Gothic windows. When the congregation outgrew the church, Law funded a northern section (including [[transept]]s and [[apse]]) which was dedicated in 1905. He donated the church organ (replacing it in 1924), four Tiffany windows, and the [[manse]] across the street.<ref name="glassglory"/> The church housed a weekly indoor farmers' market at its parish house from 2008 to 2011, when the market was moved to Pace University's Briarcliff Campus.<ref name="Market"/>

Congregation Sons of Israel, self-described as [[egalitarian]] [[Conservative Judaism|Conservative]],<ref name="CSIWebpage"/> was the first synagogue in Briarcliff Manor. The congregation was formed in 1891 by eleven men in Ossining, and until 1902 services were held in homes and stores. That year, the congregation (now twenty-three families) purchased a building on Durston Avenue; the Jewish Cemetery, established in 1900 on Dale Avenue, is still in use. In 1920, the synagogue, numbering forty-five families, established a religious school. After outgrowing its facilities, it purchased a site on Waller Avenue and completed a new synagogue in 1922. During the 1950s the congregation purchased the {{convert|11|acre|ha|adj=on}} Mead Farm on Pleasantville Road, which it has used since 1960.<ref name="1977history"/>{{rp|page=101}}

Chabad Lubavitch of Briarcliff Manor & Ossining was established around 2004, and is located on Orchard Road in Chilmark. On March 18, 2015, the organization purchased a building previously owned by the Ossining Heights United Methodist Church, on Campwoods Road in the village of Ossining. Chabad Lubavitch plans to renovate the building significantly before making it its first permanent synagogue.<ref name="Chabad"/>