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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 main building of Sleepy Hollow Country Club was known as Woodlea, the 140-room $2 million ($67.8 million in 2023 [24]) mansion built in 1895 for Elliott Fitch Shepard and his family. [6] The building, with Beaux-Arts and Georgian Revival features, was designed by McKim, Mead & White and built from 1892 to 1895.
[4]: 75 Sleepy Hollow Country Club was founded on May 11, 1911, in Scarborough, at the former house of Colonel Elliott Fitch Shepard. [22] The Village Municipal Building was built in 1913 at a cost of $20,000 ($616,600 in 2023 [14]), and was opened on July 4, 1914.
1910 (): The Briarcliff Community Center, nicknamed "The Club", is established in the 1898 Briarcliff Schools building. [8] May 11, 1911 (): Sleepy Hollow Country Club is founded in Scarborough, Elliott Fitch Shepard's home "Woodlea" is purchased for its clubhouse. [22]
[8]: 89 Vanderlip then collaborated with other wealthy estate owners to create Sleepy Hollow Country Club, which he sold Woodlea to in 1912. In 1924, Vanderlip purchased 57 acres (23 ha) of Rockwood Hall 's riverfront property to add to his estate. [ 13 ]
Pond near the green of Sleepy Hollow Country Club's No. 18 has been named in honor of George Gainor, who died in 2023.
Woodlea (1892–1895), a Stanford White–designed country estate in Scarborough, New York, now the Sleepy Hollow Country Club. William Kissam Vanderbilt (1849–1920) had three houses designed by Richard Morris Hunt.
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