253 Van Cortlandt Park Avenue

Significance: Park Hill West (c. 2006), pp. 48-58, repeats the country-club context as part of Park Hill's planned-community amenities.

Park Hill Racquet Club, present-day Park Hill Country Club; one-story brick building with outlying tennis courts.

Significance: Park Hill (2002), p. 11 and pp. 742-755, identifies the Park Hill Racquet Club as one of the large residential parcels whose protection was an explicit preservation concern and describes the earlier Park Hill Country Club as a key community amenity; the site is the present-day Park Hill Country Club.

Significance: Park Hill (1984), pp. 424-435, describes Park Hill's country club as one of the community amenities created by the American Real Estate Company and notes its prominence in upper New York.

The illustrated views show the Park Hill Country Club as both building and grounds: a large clubhouse with a broad porch and columns, seen across a reflective pond; a wooded lake edged by dense trees and foliage; and a winter scene with people skating and walking on the frozen lake, with houses or club buildings visible beyond the trees.

Significance: Yonkers Illustrated (1901), pp. 98-109, presents the Park Hill Country Club as a central social amenity in the growing Park Hill community, noting its summer outdoor sports and winter program of bowling, dramatic entertainment, cards, dancing, lectures, and music.

The 1892 publication illustrates the East Park lake in summer and winter. Its planning text presents the lake as one of the shared East Park amenities, alongside the children's playground, gymnasium, club stable, tennis fields, and archery range.