Reference
Highlights
A curated set of Park Hill places that deserve a second look: early subdivision houses, community sites, lost places, and architectural echoes that are easier to see when properties are considered together. Most significance notes remain where they belong, on the individual property pages; entries here are reserved for broader patterns or unusually important context.
Original Residences
The source text identifies these properties as the original fourteen houses in the initial Park Hill subdivision. Ten survive, while several others are represented here by approximate present-day map locations.
-
Site of the demolished A. S. Brownell residence, dated 1889. The source locates it at the intersection of Lakeside Drive with Park Hill and Glenbrook Avenues; map review places the house near present-day 212 Park Hill Avenue.
-
Site associated with the demolished George J. Ord residence, dated 1891. The Park Hill (1984) source lists 103 Park Hill Place, but Yonkers Statesman notices from 1896 and 1893 point instead to 103 Alta Avenue; the 1907 atlas places that historic footprint across present-day 105 Alta Avenue and part of 99 Alta Avenue.
-
Identified as the Thomas C. Smith residence, dated 1891, and the earliest original-fourteen entry currently flagged in the source text.
-
Site of the demolished Frank P. Dwyer residence, dated 1892.
-
Overcliff, identified with Edward K. Martin and also listed in the original-fourteen note as the Edwin K. Martin residence. The applications call it one of Park Hill's first and most extraordinary houses.
-
The Brown residence at 88 Alta Avenue is listed in the source as one of the original-fourteen houses from 1892.
-
The Charles A. Ashmead residence at 94 Alta Avenue is listed in the source as one of the original-fourteen houses from 1892.
-
Identified as the Francis B. Chedsy residence, dated 1892.
-
Identified as the Mary J. Tomkins residence, dated 1894.
-
Site of the demolished Robert W. Gifford residence, dated circa 1895.
-
Identified as the Francis A. Winslow residence, dated 1894, and called out with the Sherman house as an intact Shingle Style example.
-
Identified as the Charles R. Sherman residence, dated 1894, and paired in the source with the Winslow house as illustrative of Shingle Style suburban design.
-
Identified as the Anne E. Perham residence at 145 Alta Avenue. The source also lists an unspecified original-fourteen house, dated circa 1895, at 143 Alta Avenue, now treated as an aka for this property.
Community Sites and Lost Places
These places show the infrastructure, recreation, and off-site services that made Park Hill work: rail access, the incline elevator, stabling, clubs, hotels, and other large community sites.
-
81 Alta Avenue , 32 Undercliff Street and 254 South Broadway
The surviving upper and lower elevator depots and the demolished Park Hill railroad station formed Park Hill's early transit cluster: an incline elevator carried residents between the hilltop neighborhood and the Putnam Railroad station near the foot of the lower depot.
-
The Park Hill Racquet Club, present-day Park Hill Country Club, represents one of the large community parcels repeatedly called out in the applications as important to Park Hill's character.
-
103 Hillcrest Avenue , 107 Hillcrest Avenue and 109 Hillcrest Avenue
The 1907 Yonkers atlas shows the Park Hill Riding Club stable spanning the present-day locations of 103, 107, and 109 Hillcrest Avenue.
-
Havey's Park Hill Stables, built for Peter H. Havey and later Havey's Livery and Auto Service, was one of the off-site stabling services used by Park Hill residents before individual garages became common.
-
The 1899 Illustrated Map labels a rink here, one of only three structures named on that map. Newspaper notices identify it as Park Hill Roller Skating Rink and later Park Hill Casino, a recreation and assembly site at Herriot and South Waverly streets. In this period, casino meant a social or recreation venue rather than a gambling house; by the 1907 Yonkers atlas, part of the large structure was labeled as a planing mill.
-
The World Book House is associated with Caspar W. Hodgson of the World Book Company and was also flagged as one of the large residential parcels whose preservation mattered to the district.
-
The Fisher/Father Divine House is both an architecturally significant Colonial Revival residence and a large parcel cited as a preservation concern. Father Divine was a nationally known religious and social leader of the Peace Mission movement.
-
272 South Broadway and 357 Van Cortlandt Park Avenue
The demolished Park Hill Inn and the destroyed Hendrick Hudson hotel mark the hotel history attached to Park Hill's early promotion; the Hendrick Hudson ruins later became part of Leslie Sutherland Memorial Park.
Architectural Echoes
These entries collect repeated forms, paired compositions, and related design ideas that are easier to see when the houses are considered together instead of one property page at a time.
-
15 Wendover Road and 21 Wendover Road
The pair is explicit in the source text itself. Each house is set high above the street on a heavy rubblestone base, and each repeats the same porch, oval retaining-wall opening, angled second-story bays, and Palladian gable treatment in mirror image.
-
29 Alta Avenue and 35 Alta Avenue
These Mediterranean houses are among the closest textual and visual matches in the source material: stucco walls, enclosed front porches, hip roofs with broad dormers, bracketed cornices, and Spanish-tile accents recur almost line for line.
-
38 Cornell Avenue and 44 Cornell Avenue
These high-basement Colonial Revival houses sit as a paired composition: raised above the street, tied together by related roof forms, attic-level bowed windows, and projecting bay arrangements that answer one another across the lots.
-
145 Ritchie Drive and 157 Ritchie Drive
These Colonial Revival houses share the same late, refined Park Hill language: rubblestone and stucco, prominent classical entrances, grouped casement windows, and steep roof forms that pull the second story down into the slope of the facade.
-
26 Rumsey Road and 34 Rumsey Road
These neighboring Shingle Style houses are not twins, but they read as close variants when viewed together from Rumsey Road. Both sit high above the street on rubblestone bases, combine shingled upper stories with towered massing, and use rounded porch or bay forms to face the street.
-
225 Van Cortlandt Park Avenue and 47 Rockland Avenue
These read as sister Colonial Revival compositions: both rise from emphatic rubblestone bases, both use porch fronts with Doric columns, and both work variations on angled upper-story bays and prominent front gables.
-
37 Rockland Avenue and 54 Edgecliff Terrace
These Arts and Crafts bungalows share a strong family resemblance: steep roofs drawn low over the porch, rubblestone at the base, and front elevations organized around emphatic grouped windows beside the entrance.
-
14 Lattin Drive and 48 Marshall Road
Both houses mix Mission massing with Tudor-inflected detail. Stucco walls, buttressed porch ends, broad segmental-arch openings, and half-timbered upper portions make them one of the district’s most distinctive related pairs.
-
235 Park Hill Avenue and 239 Park Hill Avenue
The Rock Villas are best understood as an attached pair described together in the applications rather than as matching twins. Read from the street, the two addresses form what feels like a single large house, unified by rugged rubblestone at the lower levels, bowed and angled bays, and one continuous picturesque massing.