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The Old Chappaqua Historic District is located along Quaker Road (New York State Route 120) in the town of New Castle, New York, United States, between the hamlets of Chappaqua and Millwood. It was the original center of Chappaqua, prior to the construction of the New York and Harlem Railroad and the erection of its station to the south in the ...
It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, Queen Anne style frame dwelling with a cross-gable roof. It features a wraparound porch and fishscale shingles on the gable ends. [2] It is a short distance from the Montgomery Worsted Mills, co-owned by Crabtree and his partner Arthur Patchett, who also lived nearby.
In the New York State Legislature it is within the New York State Assembly's 93rd district and the New York Senate's 40th district. In Congress the village is in New York's 17th District. Chappaqua was founded by a group of Quakers in the 1730s and was the home of Horace Greeley, New-York Tribune editor and U.S. congressman. He now names ...
Kykuit (/ ˈ k aɪ k ə t / KY-kət), [3] [4] known also as the John D. Rockefeller Estate, is a 40-room historic house museum in Pocantico Hills, a hamlet in the town of Mount Pleasant, New York 25 miles (40 km) north of New York City.
Here's a look at some of what's offered on JetBlue's new coach menu: For breakfast, choose a crepe, overnight oats or a frittata as a main, and grapes and pears; or coconut yogurt as a side.
The Chappaqua Friends Meeting House, built 1753, is the oldest Quaker meeting house in Westchester County, New York, a stop on the Underground Railroad and a birthplace of the abolitionist movement in New York. [1] In 1776 it would serve as a hospital for Continental Army soldiers injured at the nearby Battle of White Plains. [2]
The Greeley House is located at King (New York State Route 120) and Senter streets in downtown Chappaqua, New York, United States.It was built about 1820 and served as the home of newspaper editor and later presidential candidate Horace Greeley from 1864 to his death in 1872.
Lotta Crabtree (1847–1924) was an American actress and comedian, best known for her Western roles. [ 2 ] : 260 Furness designed the Breslin Hotel (1886, burned 1948) [ 3 ] – a 175-room resort hotel built on a hill overlooking Lake Hopatcong – along with a number of summer cottages surrounding it.