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Pleasantville is a village in the town of Mount Pleasant, in Westchester County, New York, United States. It is located 30 miles north of Manhattan. The village population was 7,513 at the 2020 census. [2] Pleasantville is home to the secondary campus of Pace University and to the Jacob Burns Film Center.
Usonia Historic District is a planned community and national historic district in the Town of Mount Pleasant, adjacent to the village of Pleasantville, Westchester County, New York. In 1945, a 100-acre (0.40 km 2 ) rural tract was purchased by a cooperative of young couples from New York City, who were able to enlist the students of Frank Lloyd ...
The Roland Reisley House is a residence in Pleasantville, New York, United States. The third of the "Usonia Homes" in the Usonia Historic District designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the building sits on a hillside and has a masonry "core" and wood siding. Roland Reisley was 26 when he built his home.
Mount Pleasant is a town in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the New York metropolitan area.As of the 2020 census, the town population was 44,436.The hamlets of Valhalla, Hawthorne, Pocantico Hills, and Thornwood, and the villages of Pleasantville, Sleepy Hollow, and a small portion of Briarcliff Manor lie within the town.
Sol Friedman House Toyhill, was built in Pleasantville, New York in 1948. This was the first of the three Frank Lloyd Wright homes built in the "Usonia Homes" development north of New York City. The Friedman House forms part of the post-war development of Wright's use of the circle, culminating in his Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan.
Choate House was built in 1867 by shoe manufacturer Samuel Baker in what is now Pleasantville, New York. It later became the residence of Dr. George C. S. Choate. Choate added a wing as a private sanitarium to accommodate patients being treated for mental and nervous disorders.
The New York and Harlem Railroad laid tracks through Pleasantville during the 1840s. Evidence of the existence of Pleasantville station can be found as far back as October 1846. [3]: 14 The existing station house was built by the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad in 1905. [4]
Marmaduke Forster House, also known as the Forster-Hobby-Washburn House, is an historic home located in Pleasantville, Westchester County, New York.The original section of the house was built about 1785 by Marmaduke Forster, a colonial carpenter from New York City, as a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, timber frame dwelling.