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The history of Briarcliff Manor, ... A post office was established a year later; it was renamed the Briarcliff Manor Post Office in 1897. [3] Progressive Era
Briarcliff Manor (/ ˈ b r aɪ. ər k l ɪ f /) is a suburban village in Westchester County, New York, 30 miles (50 km) north of New York City.It is on 5.9 square miles (15 km 2) of land on the east bank of the Hudson River, geographically shared by the towns of Mount Pleasant and Ossining.
The Scarborough Historic District is a national historic district located in the suburban community of Scarborough-on-Hudson, in Briarcliff Manor, New York.The 376-acre (152 ha) district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and contains seven historically and architecturally significant properties dating from the late 18th century to the early 20th century.
1896 (): Briarcliff Congregational Church is built to replace the congregation's use of the schoolhouse. [13] 1897 (): The post office is renamed the Briarcliff Manor Post Office. [8] August 4, 1898 (): The first Scarborough train station and post office is struck by lightning and burns down. [17]
Sleepy Hollow Country Club is a historic country club in Scarborough-on-Hudson in Briarcliff Manor, New York.The club was founded in 1911, and its clubhouse was known as Woodlea, a 140-room Vanderbilt mansion owned by Colonel Elliott Fitch Shepard and his wife Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard.
The Briarcliff Manor village government purchased the 1899 [16] station building in 1961 [17] to house its Scarborough post office. The building was used as a filming location in 1966, in the first episode of the television soap opera Dark Shadows as the Collinsport train station.
Beechwood is a Hudson River estate in Scarborough-on-Hudson, in Briarcliff Manor, New York. The estate was most notably the home of Frank A. Vanderlip and his family, and is a contributing property to the Scarborough Historic District. The house and property were owned by the Vanderlip family from 1906 to 1979.
At Briarcliff, The King's College sponsored the King's Tournament, a sports tournament in which East Coast Christian college athletes competed each year. [3] The Briarcliff Lodge, the main facility of the school's former Briarcliff Manor campus, c. 1980s. After Crawford's death, [6] Robert A. Cook became the college's second president in 1962. [7]