Editing Irvington, New York (section)

== Historic Irvington ==
===Landmark protection===
Irvington is home to a number of historic landmarks and an historic district. In 2018, the village board of trustees passed local legislation which sought "the protection and enhancement" of landmarks and historic sites. The law will be enforced by an architectural review board which will designate "sites, structures, buildings, markers and objects" that "cannot be duplicated or otherwise replaced" and that are "illustrative of the growth and development of our nation, our state and our Village and that are of particular historic or aesthetic value to Irvington."  A village master plan promulgated in 2003 recognized around 200 hones dating from 1859 to 1930 which were worthy of consideration.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fitz-Gibbon |first=Jorge |title=Irvington's new local law will protect landmarks |url=https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/2018/01/29/irvingtons-new-local-law-protect-landmarks/1071895001/ |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=The Journal News |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Points of interest ===
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* '''[[Ardsley-on-Hudson (Metro-North station)|Ardsley-on-Hudson Station House]]''' &ndash; The station house on the northbound side, which houses the waiting room and the Ardsley-on-Hudson post office, is all that is left of the [[McKim, Mead & White]]-designed [[Tudor Revival architecture|Tudor style]] buildings associated with the '''Ardsley Casino''' which was located there. The casino, established with the support of [[Jay Gould]], [[Cornelius Vanderbilt]], [[J. Pierpont Morgan]], [[William Rockefeller]], and [[Amzi Lorenzo Barber]], had a golf course, tennis courts, stables, a private dock of the [[New York Yacht Club]], and daily stagecoach service to the [[Hotel Brunswick]] on [[Fifth Avenue]] in [[Manhattan]]. The casino was torn down in 1936 and was replaced by the Hudson House apartment building, designed by [[Shreve, Lamb and Harmon]], which still stands.<ref name=foundation /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ardsley Country Club View Library Document: History |url=http://www.ardsleycc.org/club/scripts/library/view_document.asp?GRP=12359&NS=PUBLIC&APP=80&DN=HISTORY |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20150609212708/http://www.ardsleycc.org/club/scripts/library/view_document.asp?GRP=12359&NS=PUBLIC&APP=80&DN=HISTORY |archive-date=2015-06-09 |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=www.ardsleycc.org}}</ref>  The station was used as a location for the 2016 film ''[[The Girl on the Train (2016 film)|The Girl on the Train]]'', with the addition of a portico to recreate the feel of the station as it existed in 1890.<ref name=girllocations /> (110 West Ardsley Avenue)
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* '''[[Armour-Stiner House]]''' (also known as the '''Carmer Octagon House''') ''(1860)'' – Built by financier Paul J. Armour according to the ideas of [[Orson Fowler]], the house originally had only two stories and a flat roof.<ref name=greenburgh /> Expanded &ndash; adding the dome and the veranda, as well as elaborate deocartions and embellishments<ref name=greenburgh /> &ndash; and refurbished by Joseph Stiner in 1872, the Armour-Stiner House is said to be one of the most lavish [[octagon house]]s built in the period, and is now one of only perhaps a hundred still extant.<ref name="Lombardi">{{cite web|url=http://www.josephpelllombardi.com/?homes_page=octagon-house |title=Octagon House|first1=Joseph Pell |last1=Lombardi |access-date=November 10, 2011}}</ref><ref name="octagon_houses">{{cite web| url=http://www.octagon.bobanna.com/NY.html| title=NY| work=Inventory of Older Octagon, Hexagon, and Round Houses| access-date=May 15, 2009| archive-date=October 6, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006021727/http://www.octagon.bobanna.com/NY.html| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="victorian_houses">{{cite web|url=http://faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/~infocom/scndempr/school.html |title=A Guide To The Major Architectural Styles |last=Taylor |first=David |work=Victorian Houses |access-date=May 15, 2009}}</ref> The house was later occupied by historian [[Carl Carmer]], who maintained that it was haunted. In 1976, the house was briefly owned by the [[National Trust for Historic Preservation]] to prevent it from being demolished. The trust was unable to fund the amount of renovation the property required, and sold it to a [[historic preservation|preservationist]] architect, [[Joseph Pell Lombardi]], who has conserved the house, interiors, grounds and outbuildings. The house is a [[National Historic Landmark]].<ref name="guidebook" /><ref name="irvhist_octagon">{{cite web| url=http://www.irvingtonhistoricalsociety.org/nrhp/nrhp03.html| title=Armour-Stiner House (The Octagon House): National Register of Historic Places, 1975| publisher=Irvington Historical Society| access-date=May 15, 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105174154/http://www.irvingtonhistoricalsociety.org/nrhp/nrhp03.html| archive-date=January 5, 2009| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="lombardi_octagon_house">{{cite web| url=http://www.josephpelllombardi.com/5homes/octagon.html| title=The Armour-Stiner Octagon House| last=Lombardi| first=Joseph Pell| access-date=May 15, 2009| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090403042146/http://www.josephpelllombardi.com/5homes/octagon.html| archive-date=April 3, 2009}}</ref> ''(West Clinton Avenue, west of the Old Croton Trail)''
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* '''Churches:'''
** '''[[Church of St. Barnabas (Irvington, New York)|Church of St. Barnabas]]''' ''(1853)'' – A stone [[Gothic architecture|Gothic]] building listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] (2000), the cornerstone of St. Barnabas was laid on May 29, 1853. It was originally intended as a chapel and school, and was designed by the Reverend Dr. John McVickar, a professor at [[Columbia College of Columbia University|Columbia College]] and the [[General Theological Seminary]] and friend of [[Washington Irving]] &ndash; his son, [[William McVickar]], was the church's first rector. The building was constructed from stone quarried on the former Rutter estate across Broadway, where the "Fieldpoint" development is now located. In the early 1860s the building was enlarged to become a parish church, to plans produced by the firm of Renwick and Sands.  ([[James Renwick Jr.]] was the architect who would design the Irvington Presbyterian Church which stands next to St. Barnabas.)  The "Lich Gate" entryway dates from circa 1896, and was designed by A. J. Manning, who later designed the Irvington Town Hall. The gate is made of solid oak on a stone foundation, and was a memorial to Mrs. H. B. Worthington.<ref name="irvhist_barnabas">{{cite web| url=http://www.irvingtonhistoricalsociety.org/nrhp/nrhp09.html| title=Church of St. Barnabas: National Register of Historic Places, 2000| publisher=Irvington Historical Society| access-date=May 15, 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105174806/http://www.irvingtonhistoricalsociety.org/nrhp/nrhp09.html| archive-date=January 5, 2009| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="parish_history">{{cite web| url=http://www.stbarnabaschurch.org/parish_history| title=Parish History| publisher=Church of St. Barnabas| access-date=May 15, 2009| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509145609/http://www.stbarnabaschurch.org/parish_history| archive-date=May 9, 2008}}</ref> ''(North Broadway, north of Main Street)''
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** '''Irvington Presbyterian Church''' ''(1869)'' – A [[Romanesque Revival architecture|Romanesque]] church designed by [[James Renwick Jr.]], who also designed [[St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York]];<ref name=Trav>{{Cite book |title=The Traveler's Guide to the Hudson River Valley |last=Mulligan |first=Tim |year=1999 |publisher=Random House |location=New York |isbn=0-375-75342-7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/travelersguideto00mull/page/219 219] |url=https://archive.org/details/travelersguideto00mull/page/219 }}</ref> the [[stained-glass]] windows were designed by [[Louis Comfort Tiffany]], who had once been an Irvington resident.<ref name=Trav /> The cost of construction was $53,0000.<ref name="guidebook" /><ref name="trolley" /> ''(North Broadway, north of Main Street)''
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* {{anchor|Cosmopolitan Building}}

'''Cosmopolitan Building''' ''(1895)'' – This three-story stone [[neoclassical architecture|neo-Classical revival]] building topped by three small domes was designed by [[Stanford White]] as the headquarters for ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'' when the magazine moved from New York to Irvington. [[John Brisben Walker]], who had bought the general interest magazine in 1889, had a mansion in Irvington only a short walk away. In 1897 Walker started a free [[correspondence school]], the Cosmopolitan Educational University Extension. When 20,000 people enrolled, Walker was unable to keep to its offer of a no-cost education for all, and had to ask the students to pay $20 per year. Nevertheless, the venture attracted well-known academics to its staff, and public lectures and other events associated with the school were held in the headquarters building. The magazine also sponsored several automobile races from New York to Irvington to promote the automobile. ''Cosmopolitan'' left Irvington shortly after [[William Randolph Hearst]] bought the magazine in 1905 and moved it back to New York. Afterwards, the building was used as a silent movie studio for some period of time, but for most of its subsequent history has primarily housed manufacturing concerns of various types, including one that made radio [[oscillator]]s used by the U.S. Army in World War II, and a company that made looseleaf binders and other paper products.{{parabr}}{{anchor|Trent}}The Cosmopolitan Building still stands, although it is known as the "Trent Building" after the family that owns it, but it is quite run down, and its visage has suffered from the pedestrian brick industrial building which was stuck onto its rear, obscuring the eastern facade. The building houses manufacturers, offices, a video production facility, a publisher of art books, interior design firms, a yoga studio, a chapel, photographers, a spa, a florist and event space and at least one restaurant.<ref name="guidebook" /><ref name="cosmopolitan">{{cite web| url=http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcosmopolitan.htm| title=Cosmopolitan [sic] Magazine| access-date=May 15, 2009| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630032153/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcosmopolitan.htm| archive-date=June 30, 2009}}</ref><ref name="dining_out">{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/30/nyregion/dining-out-a-young-restaurant-in-a-historic-building.html| title=Dining Out:; A Young Restaurant in a Historic Building| last=Reed| first=M. H.| date=September 30, 2001| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| access-date=May 15, 2009}}</ref><ref name="westchester_cosmo">{{cite news| url=http://www.westchestermagazine.com/Westchester-Magazine/February-2007/Westchester-Chronicles/| title=Westchester Chronicles: Westchester's Own Cosmo Girl| last=Yasinsac| first=Rob| date=February 1, 2007| newspaper=[[Westchester Magazine]]| access-date=May 15, 2009}}</ref> ''(50 South Buckhout Street)''
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* '''[[East Irvington School|East Irvington Public School]]''' ''(1898, 1925)'' – Built in 1891<ref name=greenburgh /> as a one-story schoolhouse for the community of [[East Irvington, New York|East Irvington]], the building was expanded to two stories in 1925, and accommodated all elementary school children in the area. In 1954, because of overcrowding, the village built the Dows Lane Elementary School, although the East Irvington School continued to be used for some grades until 1970, when it was closed.<ref name=greenburgh />  East Irvington, an unincorporated area of the town of [[Greenburgh, New York|Greenburgh]] which is part of the [[#Education|Irvington School District]], but not of the Village of Irvington, had been known as "[[Dublin]]" due to the number of Irish immigrant workers living there, many of whom worked at the nearby quarry. The school building was converted to condominiums in 1983, when it was also placed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. A similar school is located in the section of [[Tarrytown, New York|Tarrytown]] known as "Pennybridge", which is also part of the [[#Education|Irvington School District]].<ref name="irvhist_east">{{cite web| url=http://www.irvingtonhistoricalsociety.org/nrhp/nrhp06.html| title=East Irvington Public School: National Register of Historic Places, 1983| publisher=Irvington Historical Society| access-date=May 15, 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105173606/http://www.irvingtonhistoricalsociety.org/nrhp/nrhp06.html| archive-date=January 5, 2009| url-status=dead}}</ref>
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* '''Halsey Teahouse''' ''(1905)'' – [[A. J. Manning]] was commissioned by oil and cotton magnate [[Melchior Beltzhoover]] to build an exact replica of a [[Rhineland]] castle. The 44-room mansion, called "Rochroane", was sold to Benjamin Halsey in 1927 and renamed "Grey Towers". The estate was given by Halsey's widow to the Irvington Catholic Church in 1976, and the castle burned down the next year (the exterior was stone, but the interior was wood). The estate was sold to a developer, who gave the pond to the village in exchange for the right to build residence on the property. The "Halsey Playhouse" or "Teahouse", which was restored in 1997, is the last remnant of the estate, except for a Tiffany landscape window now in the [[Corning Museum of Glass]]. The Teahouse has two floors, and an open hexagonal tower with Gothic-arched windows, and there is a walkway and stone bridge around Halsey Pond, which the structure overlooks. Vestiges of a fountain, dam, and other structures can be seen in the nearby woods and backyards.<ref name="ruins" /><ref name="wronker">{{cite web| url=http://gumby57ny.tripod.com/id2.html| title=Irvington, NY Artwork| last=Wronker| first=Eyton| publisher=Wronker Artwork| access-date=May 15, 2009}}</ref><ref name="ayer_mansion">{{cite web| url=http://www.nps.gov/nhl/designations/samples/ma/Frederick%20Ayer%20Mansion.pdf| title=National Historic Landmark Nomination: Ayer, Frederick, Mansion| publisher=United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service| page=17| access-date=May 15, 2009}}</ref>

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File:Armour-Stiner House.jpg|[[Armour-Stiner House|Armour-Stiner Octagon House]], a [[National Historic Landmark]]
File:Irvington Cosmopolitan Building.jpg|The Cosmopolitan Building, from an advertisement for ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'' magazine, c.1900
File:East Irvington School.JPG|[[East Irvington, New York|East Irvington]] Public School building, now condominiums
File:Lord and Burnham Building.jpg|[[Lord & Burnham Building]]
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* '''Hermit's Grave''' ''(1888)'' – Johann W. Stolting was a native of [[Heligoland]] who lived deep in the woods of Irvington as a hermit in the 19th century. He slept in his coffin, made of local chestnut wood, in a cabin overlooking the Saw Mill River valley. Stolting made his own clothes, wore sandals for shoes, but never wore a hat. He survived by selling wooden buttons made on a homemade foot-powered lathe. He died in 1888 at the age of 78, and his grave is only a few hundred feet west of the Saw Mill Parkway &ndash; the only marked grave in Irvington. The grave is reachable by a marked trail (the blue and white blazed "HG" trail) that begins at the north end of the village reservoir.<ref name="ruins">{{cite web|url=http://www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/yasinsac/irvington.html|title=Irvington, New York|last=Yasinsac|first=Rob|work=Hudson Valley Ruins|access-date=May 15, 2009}}</ref> ''(trail head at Fieldpoint Road)''
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* '''Hillside''' ''(1889)'' – Built in 1889 for medical doctor<ref name= "Address of Carroll Dunham, M.D., of Irvington ... 1876">{{Cite book| publisher = s.n.| last = Dunham| first = Carroll| title = Address of Carroll Dunham, M.D., of Irvington, N.Y., to the World's Homeopathic Convention of 1876, on Monday, June 26th, 1876| year = 1876}}</ref> Carroll Dunham, the [[Colonial Revival]]<ref name=foundation /> mansion house was designed for 34 rooms with 16 fireplaces, gables and bay windows, a large staircase, walls of mahogany paneling, and glass designed by Irvington resident [[Louis Comfort Tiffany]].<ref name=foundation /> The grounds were designed by [[Charles Eliot (landscape architect)|Charles Eliot]], who also planned the Boston park system with later alterations by [[Frederick Law Olmsted]], the co-creator of New York City's [[Central Park]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/charleseliotland00elio | title=Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect, a Lover of Nature and of His Kind, Who Trained Himself for a New Profession, Practised it Happily and Through it Wrought Much Good | publisher=Houghton, Mifflin | last=Eliot | first=Charles William | year=1902 | location=Boston | pages=[https://archive.org/details/charleseliotland00elio/page/281 281]–284}}; and, {{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/rulestavernclub00massgoog | title=Rules of the Tavern Club of Boston with a List of Officers and Members | publisher=Tavern Club | last=Tavern Club | year=1901 | location=Boston | page=37}}</ref> The estate was sold shortly after Dunham's death in 1923<ref name=foundation/> to Gordon Harris, the son of [[American Tobacco Company]] founder<ref name=spikes>Spikes and Leone (2009)</ref> William R. Harris. Gordon Harris, then Vice President<ref name=spikes /> of the [[United States Lines]] shipping company, and his family lived on the estate until 1946<ref name=spikes />
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* {{anchor|Irvington Historic District}}

'''[[Irvington Historic District (Irvington, New York)|Irvington Historic District]]''' ''(2013-14)''. In December 2002, a committee prepared for the trustees of the village of Irvington a comprehensive request for the New York State Department of Parks, Recreation of Historic Preservation to create a State and Federal historic district to include the heart of the village: <blockquote>that area of Irvington bounded by the Hudson River to the West, and Broadway to the East (to include Saint Barnabas and the Presbyterian Churches), by the gates of Barney Park to the South, and by the gates of Matthiessen Park to the North. This boundary being consistent with the original 1850s layout of Dearman, later renamed Irvington-on-Hudson.<ref name=proposal>Buford, Kate; Ferguson, Earl; and Mason, Evan; et al. (December 2002) [http://www.irvingtonny.gov/DocumentCenter/Home/View/5037 "Irvingon-on-Hudson, New York: Historic District Application"] Village of Irvington</ref></blockquote> This proposal did not result in an historic district being created.<ref name=comprehensive>[http://www.irvingtonny.gov/index.aspx?nid=159 "2003 Comprehensive Plan Discussion of Historic District"] Village of Irvington</ref> In 2011, a second attempt was made, with a Historic District Committee being created and another application being made, this time covering <blockquote>Portions of Main St., W. Main St., River St., Bridge St., N. and S. Astor St., N. and S. Buckhout St., N. and S. Cottenet St., N. and S. Dutcher St., N. and S. Eckar St., N. and S. Ferris St., E. and W. Home Pl., Grinnel St., Aqueduct Ln., N. and S. Dearman St., and Broadway<ref name=app2>[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5HZjH5r3MzhRUJ0bFhpZnh5aVE "National Register of Historic Places: Application Form: Irvington Historic District"]</ref><ref name=map>[http://www.irvingtonny.gov/documentcenter/view/7568 "Irvington Historic District" (map)] Village of Irvington</ref><ref>[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5HZjH5r3MzhRUJ0bFhpZnh5aVE Google Drive folder of materials] Village of Irvington</ref></blockquote> In September 2013, the proposal was accepted by the state,<ref name=hds>[http://www.irvingtonny.gov/index.aspx?nid=313 "Historic District Sub-Committee"] Village of Irvington</ref> and in January 2014 by the National Register for Historic Places.<ref name=hds /><ref>[http://focus.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/13001095 "Irvington Historic District"] National Register for Historic Places Asset Detail</ref>  The district includes 212 contributing and 43 non-contributing buildings, and 1 contributing site.<ref name=app2 />
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* '''[[Lord & Burnham Building]]''' ''(1881)'' – [[Lord & Burnham]] manufactured [[greenhouse]]s &ndash; an excellent example of which can be seen at [[Lyndhurst (mansion)|Lyndhurst]], the estate of [[Jay Gould]], in neighboring Tarrytown<ref>Glass Structures Ltd., [http://www.glassstructures.com/lord_burnham/index.htm Lord and Burnham Greenhouses]</ref> &ndash; and boilers. The Burnham factory building, built in 1881 to replace a factory that burned down on the same site that year, is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] since 1999. It has been renovated and repurposed into residences and the new home of the expanded Irvington Public Library.<ref>[https://libguides.nybg.org/c.php?g=655090&p=4597624. The Lord & Burnham Company] Lord and Burnham. NYBG. LuEsther T. Mertz Library.</ref>  Across the railroad tracks, the buildings of Lord & Burnham's expansion factory have been renovated and transformed into upscale commercial real estate buildings known as [[Bridge Street Properties]], which houses around 60 different companies, retail stores, and restaurants.<ref name="library">{{cite web| url=http://www.irvingtonlibrary.org/history.html| title=A Short History of Irvington Public Library| publisher=Irvington Public Library| access-date=May 15, 2009| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090618193826/http://www.irvingtonlibrary.org/history.html| archive-date=June 18, 2009}}</ref><ref name="irvhist_lord">{{cite web| url=http://www.irvingtonhistoricalsociety.org/nrhp/nrhp08.html| title=Lord and Burnham Building: National Register of Historic Places, 1999| publisher=Irvington Historical Society| access-date=May 15, 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105181536/http://www.irvingtonhistoricalsociety.org/nrhp/nrhp08.html| archive-date=January 5, 2009| url-status=dead}}</ref>  ''(Foot of Main Street at the train station).'' Additionally, residential row houses originally constructed for Lord & Burnham's factory workers can be found at #10-#16A North Buckhout Street, north of Main Street.<ref name=comprehensive />{{rp|15}}
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* '''[[McVickar House]]''' ''(1853)'' – The McVickar House was built by Reverend John McVickar for his son, the Reverend William McVickar, the first rector of St. Barnabas Church. John McVickar's own house was on Fargo Lane, not far from Sunnyside, and it is said that Washington Irving enjoyed the view from John McVickar's house better than the one from his own. The backyard of the William McVickar house became the site of a [[Con Edison]] substation in 1957, and served as a doctor's office until 1984. The Village of Irvington acquired it in 2002, and it was restored and renovated to be the headquarters of the Irvington Historical Society, opening in November 2005 as the Irvington History Center. The building is on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] (2003).<ref name="irvhist_mcvickar">{{cite web| url=http://www.irvingtonhistoricalsociety.org/nrhp/nrhp11.html| title=McVickar House: National Register of Historic Places, 2003| publisher=The Irvington Historical Society| access-date=May 15, 2009}}</ref> ''(131 Main Street, between North Dearman and Broadway)''
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* '''Nevis''' ''(1836)'' – [[Columbia University]]'s [[Nevis Laboratories]] is located on a {{convert|60|acre|adj=on}} property originally owned by [[James Alexander Hamilton]], the third son of [[Alexander Hamilton]]. He called the estate, which was originally {{convert|124|acre}}, "Nevis" after the [[Caribbean]] [[Nevis|island]] which was the birthplace of the elder Hamilton. The [[Greek revival]] mansion James Hamilton built in 1836 is still standing on the grounds. Over the years, the {{convert|154|acre|hectare|adj=on}} estate was reduced to {{convert|68|acre|hectare}}. It was purchased by Mrs. [[T. Coleman DuPont]] of [[Delaware]] in 1920, and was given to Columbia by her in 1934, "to make more satisfactory provision for its increasingly important work in [[landscape architecture]] and general [[horticulture]]."  One early pamphlet remarked, "Nevis is one of the superb examples of historic and landscape architecture in America. No other country place north of [[Maryland]] so perfectly exemplifies the taste of the Early Republican Period in our history." The property contains an inventory of 2,640 trees and 1,928 ornamental shrubs.<ref name="nevis" /><ref name="boeckelman">{{cite web|url=http://www.billboeckelman.com/content/article.html?id=916921|title=The Nevis Estate|last=Boeckelman|first=William|access-date=May 15, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708001247/http://www.billboeckelman.com/content/article.html?id=916921|archive-date=July 8, 2011}}</ref> Columbia began the construction of a physics laboratory with a [[cyclotron]] &ndash; at the time the world's most powerful &ndash; in 1947, which was dedicated by Columbia's president, [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], in 1950. It was decommissioned in 1978. The laboratory continues to be used to study high-energy physics and astrophysics. ''(South Broadway)''
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* '''[[Nuits (Irvington, New York)|Nuits]]''' ''(1853)'' – This [[Italianate architecture|Italianate]] [[villa]] was built as a summer home by the textile importer [[Francis Cottenet]] (who came from [[Nuits-St.-George]] in France, and whose name adorns "Cottenet Street" in Irvington) out of brick faced with [[Caen stone]] &ndash; a light creamy-yellow [[limestone]] quarried in northwestern France near the city of [[Caen]], and brought to America as ballast in Cottenet's ships &ndash; to a design by the noted German architect [[Detlef Lienau]]. The house was built in two stages, the south entrance area first in 1853, and the north extension, which features a Lord and Burnham conservatory, in 1860. The house passed through numerous owners, including [[Cyrus Field]], [[John Jacob Astor III]] and [[Amzi Lorenzo Barber]]. Nuits remains a private residence, albeit on {{convert|4.78|acre|ha}} rather than the original {{convert|40|acre|ha|adj=on}} estate. Nuits, which is also known as the Cottenet-Brown House, was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1977, and the house was restored between 1980 and 2000.<ref name="guidebook" /><ref name="irvhist_nuits">{{cite web|url=http://www.irvingtonhistoricalsociety.org/nrhp/nrhp05.html|title=Nuits: National Register of Historic Places, 1977|publisher=Irvington Historical Society|access-date=May 15, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105173204/http://www.irvingtonhistoricalsociety.org/nrhp/nrhp05.html|archive-date=January 5, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="villa">{{cite web|url=http://www.nyspacesmagazine.com/pages.asp?id=541|title=It Takes A Villa|work=New York Spaces|publisher=Wainscot Media, LLC|access-date=May 15, 2009}}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ''(2 Clifton Place at Hudson Road, Ardsley-on-Hudson)''

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File:Irvington Nuits crop.jpg|"[[Nuits (Ardsley-on-Hudson, New York)|Nuits]]", the residence of Francis Cottenet, c.1860
File:Odell Inn, South Broadway, Irvington, Westchester County, NY HABS NY,60-IRV,1-1 crop.jpg|Odell's Tavern, the oldest house in Irvington
File:Irvington Town Hall full.jpg|[[Irvington Town Hall]]
File:Villa-lewaro crop.jpg|[[Villa Lewaro]], built by [[Madam C. J. Walker]], an African American woman who was America's first female millionaire
File:Washington Irving Memorial Irvington.jpg|[[Washington Irving Memorial]], by [[Daniel Chester French]], the most prominent sculptor in the U.S. at the time
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* '''Odell's Tavern''' ''(1693)'' – The main part of the Odell-Conklin-Harmse Tavern, the oldest house extant in Irvington, is constructed of [[fieldstone]], with walls that are four feet thick. It was built by Jan Harmse after he moved to the area from [[Long Island]], and was converted to a tavern in 1742 Mathius and Sophia Conklin, a function it served until sometime in the 19th century. The "Convention of the Representatives of the State of New York" stopped there in April 1776, when Jonathan Odell was the proprietor, on their way out of New York City when the British occupied it, and discussed General Washington's defeat at the [[Battle of Long Island]]. In 1989, the Village of Irvington had the opportunity to purchase for $5.5 million the {{convert|10.5|acre|adj=on}} Murray-Griffin property that includes the Tavern, as well as 19th century barn and carriage house and a 23-room four-story Bedford stone house built in 1938, but did not. The Tavern, which in 2006 was reported as having undergone a recent restoration using artisans from [[Lyndhurst (mansion)|Lyndhurst]], is now part of a private residence and is not open to the public.<ref name="living1992" /><ref name="chrono" /><ref name="trolley">{{cite web| url=http://www.hudsonriver.com/halfmoonpress/stories/0898trol.htm| title=What You'll See on the Historic River Towns Trolley| date=August 1998| publisher=Half Moon Press| access-date=May 15, 2009| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081002091955/http://www.hudsonriver.com/halfmoonpress/stories/0898trol.htm| archive-date=October 2, 2008}}</ref><ref name="historic_river_towns">{{cite web|url=http://www.hudsonriver.com/rivertowns/irvington.htm|title=Irvington |publisher=Historic River Towns of Westchester |access-date=May 15, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080923054008/http://www.hudsonriver.com/rivertowns/irvington.htm |archive-date=September 23, 2008}}</ref><ref name="melvin">{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/29/nyregion/tempting-offer-in-irvington-but-how-should-village-respond.html| title=Tempting Offer in Irvington, but How Should Village Respond?| last=Melvin| first=Tessa| date=October 29, 1989| newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| access-date=May 15, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.riverjournalonline.com/article.php?focus=1154044983| title=Tradition and Passion — Irvington's Peter Oley| last=Steiner| first=Henry| date=July 28, 2006| work=River Journal| access-date=May 15, 2009}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> ''(South Broadway at West Clinton Avenue)''
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* '''Shadowbrook''' ''(1895)'', is a 9-acre estate built for banker [[Henry Graves (banker)|Henry Graves]], located at the corner of West Sunnyside Lane and Broadway just over the border in Tarrytown. It has been the home of [[Irving Berlin]], the noted American songwriter, and jazz musician [[Stan Getz]]. It was designed by noted architect [[R. H. Robertson]] in the [[Tudor Revival architecture|Tudor Revival style]]. Robertson also designed '''Richmond Hill''', an estate located at the corner of Broadway and Harriman Road in Irvington, which was later utilized as a laboratory for the [[North American Philips|North American Philips Company]] and then the Yeshiva Ohel Shmuel, a boarding school for high school and college students, before being torn down in 1979–80 to be replaced by condominiums. Shadowbrook has been converted into multiple private residences, and is not open to the public, although the mansion is sometimes used for weddings and other events.<ref name=southend>Rachleff, Allison S. (February 2010, revised 2011) [http://www.newnybridge.com/documents/study-documents/section106/c10.pdf "South End Historic District"] Division for Historic Preservation, New York State Parks and Recreation</ref><ref name="rob1">{{Cite web |title=Hudson Valley Moon Houses {{!}} HV-Rob |url=http://www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/rob/?p=1134 |access-date=2025-03-31 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Hudson Valley Ruins: Richmond Hill, Irvington |url=http://www.hudsonvalleyruins.org/yasinsac/irvington/richmondhill.html |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=www.hudsonvalleyruins.org}}</ref>''(821 South Broadway, Tarrytown)''
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* '''Station Road Tunnel''' ''(1837–1842)'' – At Station Road, west of Broadway, the [[Old Croton Aqueduct]] passes overhead inside a large stone and earthwork [[viaduct]] which spans what was the culvert formed by Jewel's Brook. Through the viaduct passes a single-lane tunnel to allow the road to pass through, and another smaller tunnel to the north to allow Jewel's Brook &ndash; now known as Barney Brook &ndash; through as well.<ref name="water_route">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/11/realestate/1842-route-that-carried-water-to-new-york-city.html|title=1842 Route That Carried Water to New York City|last=Gray|first=Christopher|author-link=Christopher Gray (architectural historian)|date=May 11, 1997|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=May 15, 2009}}</ref> The tunnel plays a major part in the 2016 film ''[[The Girl on the Train (2016 film)|The Girl on the Train]]''.<ref name="girllocations">{{Cite web |last=Ridley |first=Jane |date=2016-10-01 |title=Visit the ‘Girl on the Train’ NY locations for the perfect day trip |url=https://nypost.com/2016/10/01/visit-the-girl-on-the-train-ny-locations-for-the-perfect-day-trip/ |access-date=2025-03-31 |language=en-US}}</ref> ''(Station Road west of South Broadway)''
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* '''Strawberry Hill''' ''(1855, expanded c.1870s)'' – This stone mansion in Norman Victorian [[Gothic Revival architecture|Gothic style]] was built by John Thomas and expanded by [[Edward Delano Lindsay]] for John Williams. Still a private residence as of 1995, it has pointed gables, turrets and large shuttered windows.<ref name="guidebook" /><ref name=foundation /> ''(North Broadway)''
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* '''[[Sunnyside (Tarrytown, New York)|Sunnyside]]''' ''(1656/1835)'' – In 1835 [[Washington Irving]] bought for $1,800 a two-room pitched-roofed Dutch farm house built in 1656 from the property that was [[William Acker|William Ecker]]'s, and spent 15 years expanding and redesigning the house with the help of his friend and neighbor [[George Harvey (painter)|George Harvey]], a landscape painter. Ten years later Irving continued, adding a tower his friends called "The Pagoda". Today, the house is owned and operated as a museum by [[Historic Hudson Valley]]. ''(West Sunnyside Lane at the river)''

:* '''[[Washington Irving Memorial]]''' ''(1927)'' - Designed by [[Daniel Chester French]], America's leading sculptor at the time and the designer of the [[Lincoln Memorial]] in Washington, D.C., the Irving memorial, which is on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] (2000), shows a bust of Irving flanked by two of his characters, [[Boabdil]] from ''[[The Alhambra]]'' and [[Rip van Winkle]], all set against polished pink Vermont granite.<ref name="irvhist_irving_memorial">{{cite web| url=http://www.irvingtonhistoricalsociety.org/nrhp/nrhp10.html|title=Washington Irving Memorial: National Register of Historic Places, 2000| publisher=Irvington Historical Society| access-date=May 15, 2009}}</ref><ref name="about_sunnyside">{{cite web| url=http://www.hudsonvalley.org/education/Background/abt_sunny/abt_sunny.html| title=About Sunnyside| publisher=Historic Hudson Valley| access-date=May 15, 2009| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223222423/http://www.hudsonvalley.org/education/Background/abt_sunny/abt_sunny.html| archive-date=February 23, 2009}}</ref><ref name="butler_irving">{{cite web| url=http://www.hudsonvalley.org/content/view/308/133/| title=Washington Irving: Squire of Sunnyside| last=Butler| first=Joseph T.| publisher=Historic Hudson Valley| access-date=May 15, 2009| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081224045950/http://www.hudsonvalley.org/content/view/308/133/| archive-date=December 24, 2008}}</ref> ''(North Broadway at West Sunnyside Lane)''

* '''[[Irvington Town Hall|Town Hall]]''' ''(1902)'' – The Irvington Town Hall, which was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1984, is built on land deeded to the village before the turn of the 20th century by the Mental and Moral Improvement Society of Irvington, of which [[Charles Lewis Tiffany]] &ndash; founder of [[Tiffany & Co.]] and the father of [[Louis Comfort Tiffany]] &ndash; was the president.<ref name=tiffanyvoice/> The society required that the building must have in perpetuity a reading room, and also specified that it have a public hall. The brick, stone and terra cotta building, which is called a "Town Hall" despite Irvington being only a village, was designed by [[Alfred J. Manning]] and cost $150,000 to build. The library was to replace the short-lived Irvington Free Library (later the "Atheneum") which began in the local "little red schoolhouse". The new library, which opened in 1902, was designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, with Tiffany-glass lighting fixtures. The furnishings were donated by Helen Gould, the daughter of [[Jay Gould]], and Frederick W. Guiteau &ndash; uncle of [[Charles J. Guiteau]], who assassinated President [[James Garfield]] &ndash; paid for the books with a $10,000 endowment<ref name="library" /> which he originally intended to bequeath to it in his will.<ref>Staff (October 8, 1903) [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1903/10/08/105062325.pdf "Big Bequest to Cornell"] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> Although in 2000 the library moved into the Burnham Building, a reading room, the "Tiffany Room", remains in the Town Hall, to fulfill the requirements of the deed.<ref name="irvhist_townhall">{{cite web| url=http://www.irvingtonhistoricalsociety.org/nrhp/nrhp07.html| title=Irvington Town Hall: National Register of Historic Places, 1984| publisher=Irvington Historical Society| access-date=May 15, 2009}}</ref> The reading room was restored in 2004.<ref name="tiffanyvoice">{{Cite web |date=2016-02-26 |title=Tiffany Connection Plays Major Part In Irvington History |url=https://dailyvoice.com/new-york/rivertowns/real-estate/tiffany-connection-plays-major-part-in-irvington-history/639973/ |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=Rivertowns Daily Voice |language=en}}</ref>{{parabr}}In front of the Town Hall is a stone fountain memorial to Dr. Isaiah Ashton, the village physician who died in 1889. It was originally located on Broadway, where it was intended to be used to water horses.<ref name=foundation /> A recently installed [[Rip Van Winkle Statue (Irvington, New York)|statue of Rip Van Winkle]] stands next to the Town Hall, on the grounds of the Main Street School. Beginning on August 1, 2016, restoration of the exterior began. Although the project was held up by a work stoppage and contractual disputes with the contractor. The work, which will provide new windows, masonry and terra-cotta tiles specifically produced for the building, is projected to be completed by April 2017.<ref name=atwork /> ''(Main Street at North Ferris Street)''{{Clear left}}

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:* '''Town Hall Theater''' ''(1902, restored 1979-80)'' - The theater was designed to be a replica of [[Ford's Theatre]] in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]], where [[Abraham Lincoln]] was [[assassination of Abraham Lincoln|assassinated]],<ref name="trolley" /> and when completed in 1902 it was widely thought to be one of the best "opera houses" in the Hudson Valley. For decades the social life of Irvington revolved around the theater, which hosted concerts, recitals, balls, [[cotillion]]s, graduations, [[minstrel show]]s, auditions, political rallies and public meetings. [[Eleanor Roosevelt]] spoke at a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] [[political rally|rally]] just before [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|her husband]] was [[1932 United States presidential election|elected President in 1932]].<ref name="NRHP nom">{{cite web|last=O'Brien|first=Austin|title=National Register of Historic Places nomination, Irvington Town Hall|url=http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=10463|publisher=[[New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation]]|date=July 19, 1984|accessdate=June 21, 2008}}</ref> [[Opera]] singer [[Lillian Nordica]] performed there, and [[Ted Mack (radio-TV host)|Ted Mack]] auditioned talent for his ''[[Original Amateur Hour]]'' there as well.<ref name="Theater history">{{cite web|title=History |url=http://www.irvingtontheater.com/history.html |publisher=Irvington Town Hall Theater |accessdate=June 21, 2008 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080609222922/http://www.irvingtontheater.com/history.html |archivedate=June 9, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> However, it gradually fell into disuse and disrepair by the 1960s, being used only for occasional exhibitions and overnight "camping" by the local [[Boy Scouts of America|Boy Scout]] troops. In 1978 concerted citizen action started the ball rolling to completely renovate and revitalize the theater, and it re-opened in 1980, run by Irvington Town Hall Theater, Inc., a non-profit corporation under the auspices of the Town Hall Theater Commission, whose members are appointed by the mayor. Today, the Town Hall Theater presents a wide variety of events, including concerts, plays and musicals &ndash; as well as the "Best of Film" series begun in 2007, an "All Shorts" film festival started in 2015,<ref>{{Cite web |title=New 'As iFF' Festival to Celebrate Short Films in Irvington, NY, 11/13 |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/rockland/article/New-As-iFF-Festival-to-Celebrate-Short-Films-in-Irvington-NY-1113-20151023 |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=BroadwayWorld.com |language=en}}</ref> and a Playwright Festival inaugurated in 2017,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-10-23 |title=Irvington Town Hall Theater Stage Door Playwright Festival Lineup Announced |url=https://patch.com/new-york/rivertowns/irvington-town-hall-theater-stage-door-playwright-festival-lineup-announced |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=Rivertowns, NY Patch |language=en}}</ref> &ndash; in its 432-seat facility.<ref name="theater">{{cite web|url=http://www.irvingtontheater.com/aboutus.html |title=Welcome to the Irvington Town Hall Theater |publisher=Irvington Town Hall Theater |access-date=May 15, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090606145120/http://irvingtontheater.com/aboutus.html |archive-date=June 6, 2009 }}</ref>  In 2016, the village received community revitalization funding as part of New NY Bridge, which it will use to create a street-level plaza for the theater.<ref name=atwork />  As of 2019, the theater's website was using the name "Irvington Theater".<ref>{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://www.irvingtontheater.com/about |access-date=2025-03-31 |website=Irvington Theater |language=en-US}}</ref> In April 2021, the Irvington Shakespeare Company was founded to perform at the theater.<ref>Staff (April 15, 2021) [https://riverjournalonline.com/communities/irvington/irvington-theater-welcomes-the-irvington-shakespeare-company/23858/ "Irvington Theater Welcomes the Irvington Shakespeare Company"] ''River Journal''</ref>  ''(Main Street at North Ferris Street)''

* '''[[Villa Lewaro]]''' ''(1917)'' – Among Irvington's famous residents was [[Madam C. J. Walker]], America's first female millionaire. An [[African American]] woman, she made her fortune by developing a line of hair care products, creating a company with 20,000 sales agents, and by investing in real estate. In 1917, Madam Walker had a $250,000 country home built on Broadway in Irvington, designed by [[Vertner Woodson Tandy]], the first registered African-American architect in New York State. She wanted the home to be an example for her people, "to see what could be accomplished, no matter what their background." The name Villa Lewaro was coined by [[Enrico Caruso]], from the first two letters of each word in Lelia Walker Robinson, the name of her daughter, who later went by the name of [[A'Lelia Walker]].

:Walker inherited the house, and occupied it until her death in 1931, when it was bequeathed to the [[NAACP]] which opted to take the proceeds from the sale of the house rather than assume the cost of taxes and upkeep during the Great Depression. The house became the Annie E. Poth Home, a retirement home for seniors operated by the Companions of the Forest, until the 1970s. The [[neo-Palladian]]-style [[mansion]] still stands today, and is again a private residence.  ''Villa Lewaro'' is a [[National Historic Landmark]].<ref name="irvhist_lewaro">{{cite web| url=http://www.irvingtonhistoricalsociety.org/nrhp/nrhp04.html| title=Villa Lewaro: National Register of Historic Places, 1976| publisher=Irvington Historical Society| access-date=May 15, 2009}}</ref><ref name="women">{{cite web| url=http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/pwwmh/ny22.htm| title=Places Where Women Made History| publisher=United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service| access-date=May 15, 2009}}</ref> ''(North Broadway at Fargo Lane)''
* '''Wisteria Cottage''' - This private residence located at 359 Mountain Road<ref group=notes>Not #379 as reported in the news.com.au article. There is no house at #379, and the house pictured in the article is #359.</ref> in the East Irvington neighborhood, was the place where [[Albert Fish]] &ndash; who would later serve as the inspiration for the character [[Hannibal Lecter]] &ndash; murdered and ate 10-year old Grace Budd in 1928. The house was abandoned at the time that Fish brought the child there on the premise that she would be attending his niece's birthday party, but both the niece and the party were inventions. Fish already had a history of molesting and torturing disabled children, and had specifically picked out the house to murder his next victim. The house sold c.2016 for over a million dollars.<ref>Sutton, Candace (December 30, 2016) [https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/the-million-dollar-house-where-albert-fish-the-reallife-hannibal-lecter-ate-10yearold-grace-budd/news-story/c568b1840be5ab0b7af0370d9cfafb09 "The million dollar house where Albert Fish, the real-life Hannibal Lecter, ate 10-year-old Grace Budd"] ''[[news.com.au]]''</ref>