Librarians' Best Web Picks
- Cudner-Hyatt House
937 Post Road, Scarsdale. (914) 723-1744. Monday-Friday, 10-4 p.m. year round. Farmhouse built in 1734 and home to the Cudners (1734-1836) and the Hyatts (1836-1972). Farmhouse is furnished with mid-19th century furnishings, textiles and tools. - Horace Greeley House/New Castle Historical Society
100 King Street, Chappaqua. (914) 238-4666. Open year round, Tuesday through Thursday and Saturday, 1-4 p.m. Summer home of Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune and a foe of slavery and an advocate of woman's rights, from 1864-1872. - Jay Heritage Center
210 Boston Post Road, Rye. (914) 698-9275. Open Sundays only, April through November, 1 to 4 p.m, or by appointment. John Jay, the only Founding Father that was a native New Yorker, grew up on a farm in Rye, New York. His son, Peter Augustus Jay commissioned the house that is now on the property, in 1838. The Greek Revival home is open for tours and school programs. - John Jay Homestead
Federal style residence of America's first United States Supreme Court Justice and his descendents. Admission charge. 914.232.8119 - Kykuit
Kyukit is home to four generations of the Rockefeller family. Tours include part or all of the gardens and art gallery on lower level.Tickets for tours must be purchased in advance. Visitor's center is located on ground of Philipsburg Manor, Tarrytown. 914-631-9491. - Lyndhurst
635 South Broadway Tarrytown, N.Y. (914) 631-4481. Open Tuesday to Sunday mid-April through October; weekends only November through mid-April. Admission is charged. One of America's finest Gothic Revival mansions, designed in 1838 by Alexander Jackson Davis. Past owners include former New York City mayor William Paulding, merchant George Merritt, railroad tycoon Jay Gould. - Ossining Heritage Center
No weblink. 95 Broadway, Ossining, NY. (914) 941-3189 Open Monday through Saturday 10-4 p.m. Free. Exhibits focus on the Old Croton Aqueduct and Sing Sing prison. Replicas of an aqueduct section, three prison cells and the Sing Sing electric chair. Audiovisual presentation about the Sing Sing prison in modern times. - Philipsburg Manor, Upper Mills
A farm and mill complex, as it looked in 1750, owned by Anglo-Dutch merchants and run by tenant farmers of diverse European backgrounds and by 23 enslaved Africans. Admission charge.
914.631.8200 - Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site
Warburton and Dock Street, Yonkers. (914) 965-4027. Open April through October, Wednesday-Saturday 12-5 p.m. and Sunday 1-4 p.m. Groups by appointment year round. Home of wealthy Loyalist Frederick Philipse III, this Georgian mansion was built in stages from 1680 and 1755. - Sunnyside
Country home of the author Washington Irving and his two nieces. (914) 591-8763 - Van Cortlandt Manor
The brick manor house and stone ferry house of a patriot family living just after the American Revolution. (914) 271-8981. Admission charged. - Westchester County Archives
2199 Saw Mill River Road, Elmsford. The Westchester County Archives are responsible for preserving the historic public records of Westchester County, NY, dating from 1680 to the present. Located in the same building as the Westchester County Historical Society, the Westchester County Archives documents and preserves materials from the people who produced our county's laws. Its collection chronicles the growth of the county, and reveals many of the milestones in its individual citizens' lives. - Westchester County Historical Society
2199 Saw Mill River Road, Elmsford. Reading Room is open to the public Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The mission of WCHS is to collect and preserve printed matter pertaining to the history of Westchester County, to promote the knowledge and understanding of that history, and to advocate for the preservation of the county's architectural heritage.