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			{{short description\|Historic district in New York, United States}}
			{{Use American English\|date=January 2025}}
			{{Use mdy dates\|date=August 2023}}

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	\| name = Scarborough Historic District		\| name = Scarborough Historic District
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	\| image = Woodlea in Briarcliff Manor (3).jpg		\| image = Woodlea in Briarcliff Manor (3).jpg
	\| alt = A three-story beige Renaissance Revival mansion		\| alt = A three-story beige Renaissance Revival mansion
	\| caption = Woodlea at ]		\| caption = Woodlea at ]
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	\| map_caption = Map of the Scarborough Historic District		\| map_caption = Map of the Scarborough Historic District
	\| map_alt = Street map showing district boundaries		\| map_alt = Street map showing district boundaries
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	\| lat_degrees = 41
	\| ~~lat_minutes~~ = 7		\| locmapin = New York
	\| ~~lat_seconds~~ = 45		\| built = 1770
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		⚫	\| architecture = Mid-19th Century ], ]
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		⚫	\| added = September 7, 1984
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		⚫	\| area = {{convert\|376\|acre}}
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	\| built = 1770
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	\| governing_body = State
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	The '''Scarborough Historic District''' is a national ] located in the suburban community of ], in ]. The {{convert\|376\|acre\|ha\|adj=on}} district was added to the ] in 1984, and contains seven historically and architecturally significant properties dating from the late 18th century to the early 20th century. Most of the properties are domestic, or used for education or religion. The most common architectural styles within the district are Mid-19th Century ] and ].		The '''Scarborough Historic District''' is a national ] located in the suburban community of ], in ]. The {{convert\|376\|acre\|ha\|adj=on}} district was added to the ] in 1984, and contains seven historically and architecturally significant properties dating from the late 18th century to the early 20th century. Most of the properties are domestic, or used for education or religion. The most common architectural styles within the district are Mid-19th Century ] and ].
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	{{main\|Beechwood (Vanderlip mansion)}}		{{main\|Beechwood (Vanderlip mansion)}}
	Beechwood is an estate built in ~~the late 1700s~~;<ref name="~~NRHPnom~~"/> it was most notably the home of ] and his family. The mansion has gone through a number of expansions and renovations; the most recent involved dividing the mansion into three segments for use as condominiums.<ref name="WestNRHP"/><ref name="NYTScarborough"/> Beechwood was a filming location of the 1970 film '']'',<ref name="HDS"/> and a filming location and the primary setting of '']'', a 1972 ] film.<ref name="Savages"/><ref name="Savages2"/>		Beechwood is an estate built in 1780;<ref name="1952history"/>{{rp\|page=8}} it was most notably the home of National City Bank president ] and his family. The mansion has gone through a number of expansions and renovations; the most recent involved dividing the mansion into three segments for use as condominiums.<ref name="WestNRHP"/><ref name="NYTScarborough"/> Beechwood was a filming location of the 1970 film '']'',<ref name="HDS"/> and a filming location and the primary setting of '']'', a 1972 ] film.<ref name="Savages"/><ref name="Savages2"/>

	In the 1890s, ] substantially added to the estate from numerous properties, including an earlier estate named Beechwood. Webb also renovated and expanded the mansion, hiring ] to double the size of the house. Robertson designed the expansion in the ] style, to be compatible with the ] ] of the original but more ornate.<ref name="WestNRHP"/>		In the 1890s, ] substantially added to the estate from numerous properties, including an earlier estate named Beechwood. Webb also renovated and expanded the mansion, hiring ] to double the size of the house. Robertson designed the expansion in the ] style, to be compatible with the ] ] of the original but more ornate.<ref name="WestNRHP"/>
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	==Rosemont==		==Rosemont==
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	Rosemont, also known by the names Scarborough House and Hillside, was a ] mansion built around 1840.<ref name="NRHPnom"/>{{rp\|page=5}} The house was ]'s ~~birthplace~~. It became headquarters to ] in 1973, and was known at that time as Scarborough House.<ref name="NRHPnom"/>{{rp\|page=5}} The house was demolished in February 1990.<ref name="Landscape"/>{{rp\|page=205}}<ref name="Rosemont"/>		Rosemont, also known by the names Scarborough House and Hillside, was a ] mansion built around 1840.<ref name="NRHPnom"/>{{rp\|page=5}} The house was near the birthplace of Rear Admiral ] (1818-1897). It became headquarters to ] in 1973, and was known at that time as Scarborough House.<ref name="NRHPnom"/>{{rp\|page=5}} The house was demolished in February 1990. The area was developed in the late 1990s with five up-scale homes on a cul-de-sac called Admiral Wordens Lane<ref name="Landscape"/>{{rp\|page=205}}<ref name="Rosemont"/>

	The mansion was used by Frank Vanderlip as a dormitory for Scarborough School boarding students. Rosemont stood opposite Vanderlip's Beechwood, at the corner of Route 9 and Scarborough Road.<ref name="Landscape"/>		The mansion was used by Frank Vanderlip as a dormitory for Scarborough School boarding students. Rosemont stood opposite Vanderlip's Beechwood, at the corner of Route 9 and Scarborough Road.<ref name="Landscape"/>
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	==Saint Mary's Episcopal Church==		==Saint Mary's Episcopal Church==
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	Saint Mary's Episcopal Church, founded in 1839 by ] and incorporated in 1883 as Saint Mary's Church, Beechwood, is Briarcliff Manor's oldest church; it was reincorporated in 1945 as Saint Mary's Church of Scarborough. Its first service was in 1839 in a small schoolhouse on an acre of Creighton's Beechwood property, at the corner of Albany Post and Sleepy Hollow Roads. The service was led by Creighton's son-in-law Reverend Edward Nathaniel Meade.<ref name="1952history"/>		Saint Mary's Episcopal Church, founded in 1839 by William Creighton and incorporated in 1883 as Saint Mary's Church, Beechwood, is Briarcliff Manor's oldest church; it was reincorporated in 1945 as Saint Mary's Church of Scarborough. Its first service was in 1839 in a small schoolhouse on an acre of Creighton's Beechwood property, at the corner of Albany Post and Sleepy Hollow Roads. The service was led by Creighton's son-in-law Reverend Edward Nathaniel Meade.<ref name="1952history"/>

	The granite church was built in 1850 by local stonemasons and paid for primarily by Creighton and Meade,<ref name="1952history"/> but also by Creighton's wealthy neighbors, including US Navy Commodore ], ], ], and ].<ref name="Landscape"/><ref name="NYTScarborough"/> The first services there were held on September 21, 1851. The church is in near-original condition, with a design based on the 14th-century ] St. Mary's parish church in ] and is the only church with a complete set of John Bolton (brother of ]) stained-glass windows.<ref name="1952history"/>		The granite church was built in 1850 by local stonemasons and paid for primarily by Creighton and Meade,<ref name="1952history"/> but also by Creighton's wealthy neighbors, including US Navy Commodore ], ], ], and ].<ref name="Landscape"/><ref name="NYTScarborough"/> The first services there were held on September 21, 1851. The church is in near-original condition, with a design based on the 14th-century ] St. Mary's parish church in ] and is the only church with a complete set of John Bolton (brother of ]) stained-glass windows.<ref name="1952history"/>
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	During ], the ]'s First Provisional Regiment was stationed at the former ], guarding the ]. The regiment held a service at Saint Mary's in 1918, as described in a contemporary regimental history:		During ], the ]'s First Provisional Regiment was stationed at the former ], guarding the ]. The regiment held a service at Saint Mary's in 1918, as described in a contemporary regimental history:

	{{~~bquote~~\|On Sept. 29th, Supply Company trucks, sector cars, and auxiliary motor service brought from every unit of the regiment on the east side of the Hudson River details to the stated regimental service held at St. Mary's Church, Scarborough, as a tribute from the men of the regiment to Captain Baldwin.		{{blockquote\|On Sept. 29th, Supply Company trucks, sector cars, and auxiliary motor service brought from every unit of the regiment on the east side of the Hudson River details to the stated regimental service held at St. Mary's Church, Scarborough, as a tribute from the men of the regiment to Captain Baldwin.

	It was a beautiful bright Sunday morning and the men of the various companies, clad in their Sunday best, made a splendid appearance. As each company arrived, it was formed along the side of the Albany Post Road facing the church, and at 11 o'clock, while the church bells rang a final call to worship, Sergt. Bugler Corrie and the headquarters field-music sounded church call. This was immediately followed by assembly, and then, headed by the field-music, the staff, non-commissioned staff, Headquarters Company, Supply Company and the company details of the two battalions marched up through the church grounds to the church itself. At the entrance the field-music swung out of line and played the remainder of the column into the church, where the organist took up the processional.		It was a beautiful bright Sunday morning and the men of the various companies, clad in their Sunday best, made a splendid appearance. As each company arrived, it was formed along the side of the Albany Post Road facing the church, and at 11 o'clock, while the church bells rang a final call to worship, Sergt. Bugler Corrie and the headquarters field-music sounded church call. This was immediately followed by assembly, and then, headed by the field-music, the staff, non-commissioned staff, Headquarters Company, Supply Company and the company details of the two battalions marched up through the church grounds to the church itself. At the entrance the field-music swung out of line and played the remainder of the column into the church, where the organist took up the processional.
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	With the entire church filled with soldiers, it was impossible to seat the civilian congregation and all of the detachments of the National League for Women's Service, the Motor Corps' of America and the Red Cross Motor Corps who marched in the column. Many found seats in the cloister, and others sat on chairs outside the doors of the church.\|T. R. Hutton, page 295<ref name="1919history"/>}}		With the entire church filled with soldiers, it was impossible to seat the civilian congregation and all of the detachments of the National League for Women's Service, the Motor Corps' of America and the Red Cross Motor Corps who marched in the column. Many found seats in the cloister, and others sat on chairs outside the doors of the church.\|T. R. Hutton, page 295<ref name="1919history"/>}}

	On July 5, 2015, Saint Mary's Episcopal Church closed after 175 years in operation.<ref name="StMary'sClosing">{{cite news\|last=Taliaferro\|first=Lanning\|title=St. Mary's Scarborough is Closing its Doors\|url=http://patch.com/new-york/pleasantville/st-marys-scarborough-closing-its-doors\|~~accessdate~~=June 29, 2015\|work=Pleasantville-Briarcliff Manor Patch\|date=June 21, 2015}}</ref>		On July 5, 2015, Saint Mary's Episcopal Church closed after 175 years in operation.<ref name="StMary'sClosing">{{cite news\|last=Taliaferro\|first=Lanning\|title=St. Mary's Scarborough is Closing its Doors\|url=http://patch.com/new-york/pleasantville/st-marys-scarborough-closing-its-doors\|access-date=June 29, 2015\|work=Pleasantville-Briarcliff Manor Patch\|date=June 21, 2015\|archive-date=March 4, 2016\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304073856/http://patch.com/new-york/pleasantville/st-marys-scarborough-closing-its-doors\|url-status=live}}</ref>

			], who lived nearby at ], was a regular attendee of the church in the last few years of his life.<ref name="NYT WAR">{{cite news\|title=Wm. Rockefeller Dies of Pneumonia\|newspaper=The New York Times\|page=14\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1922/06/25/archives/wm-rockefeller-dies-of-pneumonia-ill-only-a-week-a-founder-of.html\|date=June 25, 1922\|access-date=May 15, 2018\|archive-date=May 17, 2018\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180517083934/https://www.nytimes.com/1922/06/25/archives/wm-rockefeller-dies-of-pneumonia-ill-only-a-week-a-founder-of.html\|url-status=live}}</ref>

	==Scarborough Presbyterian Church==		==Scarborough Presbyterian Church==
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	The church has its origins with ] and his wife ] purchasing a ] on the Albany Post Road.<ref name="1952history"/>{{rp\|page=30}} In 1892, after enlarging and remodeling the store, adding diamond-paned windows and replacing the floors and porches, the building was first used as a church.<ref name="Landscape"/>{{rp\|page=50}} The church's organization meeting was held with nineteen charter members.<ref name="1952history"/>{{rp\|page=30}}		Scarborough Presbyterian Church is the third-oldest in Briarcliff Manor., and has a {{convert\|2.75\|acre\|adj=on}} property.<ref name="Ren"/> The church has its origins with ] and his wife ] purchasing a ] on the Albany Post Road.<ref name="1952history"/>{{rp\|page=30}} In 1892, after enlarging and remodeling the store, adding diamond-paned windows and replacing the floors and porches, the building was first used as a church.<ref name="Landscape"/>{{rp\|page=50}} The church's organization meeting was held with nineteen charter members.<ref name="1952history"/>{{rp\|page=30}}

			After Elliott Fitch Shepard's death in March 1893, Margaret donated the present church building and manse. The ]-style church was designed by Augustus Haydel (a nephew of ]) and August D. Shepard (a nephew of Elliott Shepard and of ]<ref name="Mead">{{Philadelphia Architects and Buildings \|ar=1173491 \|Shepard, August Dennis, Jr. (1868-1955)}}</ref>).<ref name="Vanderbilts"/> The two nephews later designed the 1899 Fabbri Mansion in ].<ref name="1952history"/> The church's cornerstone was laid on October 13, 1893.<ref name="Landscape"/>{{rp\|page=52}}<ref name="Vanderbilts"/>{{rp\|page=165}} During construction of the building's foundation, workers found quicksand, though Shepard was intent on constructing the church there and had the construction workers dig 30 feet into the ground to find firm ground for the foundation. European workers were brought to the site to aide in the building's construction. The Italian Renaissance Revival building was of limestone delivered from Indiana by railroad, requiring a special track laid at Scarborough to accommodate the delivery.<ref name="Ren"/> The completed church was dedicated on May 11, 1895, in memory of Elliott Fitch Shepard.<ref name="Landscape"/>{{rp\|page=52}}<ref name="Vanderbilts"/>{{rp\|page=165}} It was briefly known as Shepard Memorial Church.<ref name="ScPresbHistory"/> The dedication was attended by ], ], ], William Sloane of ], ], ], and ]<ref name="Dedication">{{cite news\|title=Memorial Church Dedicated\|newspaper=The New York Times\|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1895/05/15/106080442.pdf\|date=May 15, 1895\|access-date=December 9, 2016}}</ref>

		⚫	It was built of pink granite rubble with limestone trim, with a steeple supported by ]es. The interior has mosaic tile floors, fluted ]s with gilded capitals, a ] ceiling made of redwood, and stained-glass windows.<ref name="Vanderbilts"/>{{rp\|page=165}} The church's 1,498-pipe organ was constructed around 1894; it was the first all-electric action organ in the world.<ref name="Landscape"/>{{rp\|page=53}} The {{convert\|3\|acre\|ha\|adj=on}} church property also contains the church's carriage house, used for offices, and the parish house, designed by Augustus D. Shepard and completed in 1908.<ref name="NRHPnom"/><ref name="ScPresbHistory"/>

			From 1929 to 1974, the Scarborough Engine Company of the ] had its first firehouse in the church's garage building or barn,<ref name="BMFDhistory">{{cite book\|title=A Century of Volunteer Service: Briarcliff Manor Fire Department 1901–2001\|year=2001\|publisher=Briarcliff Manor Fire Department\|lccn=00093475\|oclc=48049424}}</ref><ref name="SEChistory">{{cite book\|title=A Short History of Scarborough Engine Company 1972-1992\|publisher=Scarborough Engine Company\|date=1992}}</ref>{{rp\|pages=1, 3, 9}} which is older than the church building itself.<ref name="Ren"/>

		⚫	Since around 1995, the church has run the Scarborough Presbyterian Children's Center, a non-denominational preschool housed in a building next door to the church, with an outdoor playground nearby. The preschool serves families in Briarcliff Manor and Scarborough, Ossining, ], Sleepy Hollow, ], and ].<ref name="SPCC">{{cite news\|title=Scarborough Presbyterian Children's Center\|url=http://www.riverjournalonline.com/villages/briarcliff-manor/3721-scarborough-presbyterian-childrens-center.html\|access-date=May 6, 2015\|newspaper=River Journal\|volume=17\|number=4\|date=April 24, 2015\|page=5}}</ref>
⚫	After Elliott Fitch Shepard's death in March 1893, Margaret donated the present church building and manse. The ]-style church was designed by Augustus Haydel (a nephew of ]) and August D. Shepard (a nephew of Elliott Shepard and of ]).<ref name="Vanderbilts"/> The two nephews later designed the 1899 Fabbri Mansion in ].<ref name="1952history"/> The church's cornerstone was laid on October 13, 1893, and the completed church was dedicated on May 11, 1895 in memory of Elliott Fitch Shepard.<ref name="Landscape"/>{{rp\|page=52}}<ref name="Vanderbilts"/>{{rp\|page=165}} It was built of pink granite rubble with limestone trim, with a steeple supported by ]es. The interior has fluted ]s with gilded capitals, a ] ceiling made of redwood, and stained-glass windows.<ref name="Vanderbilts"/>{{rp\|page=165}} The church's 1,498-pipe organ was constructed around 1894; it was the first all-electric action organ in the world.<ref name="Landscape"/>{{rp\|page=53}} The {{convert\|3\|acre\|ha\|adj=on}} church property also contains the church's carriage house, used for offices, and the parish house, designed by Augustus D. Shepard and completed in 1908.<ref name="NRHPnom"/><ref name="ScPresbHistory"/>
			<!-- The building was designed in the shape of a cross, with the porte cochere as one arm and the pastor's study as the other. The church is made of granite with Indiana limestone trimmings. the tower's height is about 120 ft. The NYT described it as an "American interpretation of the Renaissance idea as it was in the time of Louis XIV". The granite was quarried from the nearby estate just south. The main hall is 42 x 80 ft, though the entire building, including its Sunday school annex towards the back is 168 ft. The roofs and cross on the observatory are copper. The three large windows on each side are 19-ft. high stained glass windows. The interior was classically designed, with carbed wood pews for 350, the Sunday school room for 150. The floors are mosaic and the ceiling is California redwood wood-paneled and secured to the entabulature by wooden corbals. Its side surfaces have 28 panels, each six square feet with carved wooden rosettes in their centers. The ceiling's center has a large redwood cross. The inner walls are a tinted cement. The choir dome over the pulpit has rosette panels and a large skylight. The building was built with electric lights, central heating, and ventilation on the walls. The organ is in the main tower and the keyboard is under the choir dome.http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9E00E3DD173CE433A25751C1A9639C94649ED7CF-->

			In 1995, some of the church was renovated; in 2002, the building was more fully renovated due to years of floodwater and runoff damage, including floods from ].<ref name="Ren">{{cite news\|last=Gannon\|first=Michael\|title=Historic Scarborough church to get renovation\|newspaper=The Journal News\|date=February 3, 2002\|id={{ProQuest\|896845607}}}}</ref>
⚫	Since around 1995, the church has run the Scarborough Presbyterian ~~Children’s~~ Center, a non-denominational preschool housed in a building next door to the church, with an outdoor playground nearby. The preschool serves families in Briarcliff Manor and Scarborough, Ossining, ], Sleepy Hollow, ], and ].<ref name="SPCC">{{cite news\|title=Scarborough Presbyterian Children's Center\|url=http://www.riverjournalonline.com/villages/briarcliff-manor/3721-scarborough-presbyterian-childrens-center.html\|~~accessdate~~=May 6, 2015\|newspaper=River Journal\|volume=17\|number=4\|date=April 24, 2015\|page=5}}</ref>

	==Sleepy Hollow Country Club==		==Sleepy Hollow Country Club==
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	{{main\|Sleepy Hollow Country Club}}		{{main\|Sleepy Hollow Country Club}}
	Sleepy Hollow Country Club was founded in 1911. The main building of Sleepy Hollow Country Club was known as Woodlea, the 140-room $2 million (${{Formatprice\|{{Inflation\|US\|2000000\|1890}}}} ~~today~~{{Inflation-fn\|US}}) mansion built in 1895 for Elliott Fitch Shepard and his family.<ref name="1952history"/> The building, with ] and ] features, was designed by ] and built from 1892 to 1895.<ref name="pamphlet"/><ref name="society"/> In 1910, Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard sold the estate to ] and ], who converted it into a country club. Current members include ], ], and several members of the ].<ref name="SHCCmembers"/>		Sleepy Hollow Country Club was founded in 1911. The main building of Sleepy Hollow Country Club was known as Woodlea, the 140-room $2 million (${{Formatprice\|{{Inflation\|US\|2000000\|1890}}}} in {{Inflation-year\|US}}{{Inflation-fn\|US}}) mansion built in 1895 for Elliott Fitch Shepard and his family.<ref name="1952history"/> The building, with ] and ] features, was designed by ] and built from 1892 to 1895.<ref name="pamphlet"/><ref name="society"/> In 1910, Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard sold the estate to ] and ], who converted it into a country club. Current members include ], ], and several members of the ].<ref name="SHCCmembers"/>

	==Sparta Cemetery==		==Sparta Cemetery==
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	===Gallery===		===Gallery===
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	File:SpartaCemetery2.tif~~\|Entrance from Revolutionary Rd.~~\|alt=Stone steps up to a cemetery on a hill		File:SpartaCemetery2.tif\|alt=Stone steps up to a cemetery on a hill\|Entrance from Revolutionary Rd.
	File:SpartaCemetery3.tif\|The Ledew gravestone was stolen before 2009; a plaque remains to describe the event~~\|alt=Cemetery plot with gravestone visibly missing~~		File:SpartaCemetery3.tif\|alt=Cemetery plot with gravestone visibly missing\|The Ledew gravestone was stolen before 2009; a plaque remains to describe the event
	File:SpartaCemetery4.tif~~\|Gravestone of the ]~~\|alt=A rock with a metal plaque attached, reading "THE LEATHERMAN"		File:SpartaCemetery4.tif\|alt=A rock with a metal plaque attached, reading "THE LEATHERMAN"\|Gravestone of the ]
	File:SpartaCemetery5.tif~~\|Entrance from US Route 9~~\|alt=A wooden sign "Welcome to Ossining" and a metal sign for Sparta Cemetery		File:SpartaCemetery5.tif\|alt=A wooden sign "Welcome to Ossining" and a metal sign for Sparta Cemetery\|Entrance from US Route 9
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	==See also==		==See also==
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	==References==		==References==
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	<ref name="nris">{{NRISref\|version=2009a}}</ref>		<ref name="nris">{{NRISref\|version=2009a}}</ref>
	<ref name="WCHS">{{cite web\|title=Historic Properties Listing\|url=http://www.westchesterhistory.com/index.php/preservation/display?town=ossining\|publisher=Westchester County Historical Society\|~~accessdate~~=August 15, 2014}}</ref>		<ref name="WCHS">{{cite web\|title=Historic Properties Listing\|url=http://www.westchesterhistory.com/index.php/preservation/display?town=ossining\|publisher=Westchester County Historical Society\|access-date=August 15, 2014\|archive-date=January 10, 2015\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150110191700/http://www.westchesterhistory.com/index.php/preservation/display?town=ossining\|url-status=dead}}</ref>
	<ref name="NRHPnom">{{cite web\|last=O'Brien\|first=Austin\|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination form - Scarborough Historic District\|work=]\|publisher=]\|url=https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=32257\|date=August 6, 1984\|~~accessdate~~=August 4, 2015}} ''See also:'' {{cite web\|url=https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=32255\|title=Accompanying photographs}}</ref>		<ref name="NRHPnom">{{cite web\|last=O'Brien\|first=Austin\|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination form - Scarborough Historic District\|work=]\|publisher=]\|url=https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=32257\|date=August 6, 1984\|access-date=August 4, 2015\|archive-date=February 16, 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216212633/https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=32257\|url-status=live}} ''See also:'' {{cite web\|url=https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=32255\|title=Accompanying photographs\|access-date=August 4, 2015\|archive-date=February 16, 2017\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216220732/https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=32255\|url-status=live}}</ref>
	<ref name="Landscape">{{cite book\|last=Cheever\|first=Mary\|title=The Changing Landscape: A History of Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough\|year=1990\|publisher=Phoenix Publishing\|location=West Kennebunk, Maine\|isbn=0-914659-49-9\|oclc=22274920\|lccn=90045613\|ol=1884671M}}</ref>		<ref name="Landscape">{{cite book\|last=Cheever\|first=Mary\|title=The Changing Landscape: A History of Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough\|year=1990\|publisher=Phoenix Publishing\|location=West Kennebunk, Maine\|isbn=0-914659-49-9\|oclc=22274920\|lccn=90045613\|ol=1884671M}}</ref>
	<ref name="Rosemont">{{cite news\|last=Bryant\|first=Nelson\|title=Outdoors; Worth the Work\|url=~~http~~://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/09/sports/outdoors-worth-the-work.html\|~~accessdate~~=July 18, 2014\|newspaper=The New York Times\|date=June 9, 1985}}</ref>		<ref name="Rosemont">{{cite news\|last=Bryant\|first=Nelson\|title=Outdoors; Worth the Work\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/09/sports/outdoors-worth-the-work.html\|access-date=July 18, 2014\|newspaper=The New York Times\|date=June 9, 1985\|archive-date=July 26, 2014\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140726120326/http://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/09/sports/outdoors-worth-the-work.html\|url-status=live}}</ref>
	<ref name="WestNRHP">{{cite book\|last=Williams\|first=Gray\|title=Picturing Our Past: National Register Sites in Westchester County\|publisher=Westchester County Historical Society\|location=Elmsford, New York\|isbn=0-915585-14-6\|oclc=53180357\|year=2003}}</ref>		<ref name="WestNRHP">{{cite book\|last=Williams\|first=Gray\|title=Picturing Our Past: National Register Sites in Westchester County\|publisher=Westchester County Historical Society\|location=Elmsford, New York\|isbn=0-915585-14-6\|oclc=53180357\|year=2003}}</ref>
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	<ref name="Savages2">{{cite news\|last=Madsen\|first=Krista\|title=Movies Made Here: Recapping the Reviews of 2011\|url=http://tarrytown.patch.com/groups/opinion/p/movies-made-here-recapping-the-review-of-2011\|~~accessdate~~=July 14, 2014\|newspaper=Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow Patch\|date=February 19, 2014}}</ref>		<ref name="Savages2">{{cite news\|last=Madsen\|first=Krista\|title=Movies Made Here: Recapping the Reviews of 2011\|url=http://tarrytown.patch.com/groups/opinion/p/movies-made-here-recapping-the-review-of-2011\|access-date=July 14, 2014\|newspaper=Tarrytown-Sleepy Hollow Patch\|date=February 19, 2014\|archive-date=February 27, 2014\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227210419/http://tarrytown.patch.com/groups/opinion/p/movies-made-here-recapping-the-review-of-2011\|url-status=live}}</ref>
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Historic district in New York, United States

United States historic place


Scarborough Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Woodlea at Sleepy Hollow Country Club
Map of the Scarborough Historic District
Location	U.S. Route 9, Briarcliff Manor, New York
Coordinates	41°7′45″N 73°51′22″W / 41.12917°N 73.85611°W / 41.12917; -73.85611
Area	376 acres (152 ha)
Built	1770
Architect	Multiple; McKim, Mead & White
Architectural style	Mid-19th Century Revival, Late Victorian
NRHP reference No.	84003433
Added to NRHP	September 7, 1984

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. Most of the properties are domestic, or used for education or religion. The most common architectural styles within the district are Mid-19th Century Revival and Late Victorian.

Profile

An old street and property map — 1914 map of all district properties or their present locations except Sparta Cemetery

The 376-acre (152 ha) district contains 26 contributing buildings, two contributing sites, and one contributing structure. They are associated with three estates: Beechwood, Rosemont, and Woodlea (now Sleepy Hollow Country Club); The Clear View School, a school complex; two religious properties: Saint Mary's Episcopal Church and Scarborough Presbyterian Church; and Sparta Cemetery, which dates back to before the Revolutionary War. All properties stand in much the same condition as when first nominated, except Rosemont, which was demolished in the mid- to late-1980s.

Several properties within the district exemplify Mid-19th Century Revival architectures, including Greek, Gothic, Renaissance, and Neoclassical styles; their formal landscaping exemplifies estate landscaping at the turn of the 19th century. Most of the properties were established by wealthy landowners, ranging from the late 18th century to the early 20th century. The district, which remains generally rural and sparsely developed, borders the Hudson River and lies within the towns of Ossining and Mount Pleasant, between the villages of Ossining and Sleepy Hollow.

Most of the district's buildings are set on large parcels of land, and many are clearly visible from U.S. Route 9 (the former Albany Post Road), the district's major thoroughfare. Stone and brick walls line Route 9 within the boundaries of the district. The district achieved State Register status on August 6, 1984, National Register district status on September 7, 1984, and local landmark status on January 5, 1988.

Beechwood

Main article: Beechwood (Vanderlip mansion)

Beechwood is an estate built in 1780; it was most notably the home of National City Bank president Frank A. Vanderlip and his family. The mansion has gone through a number of expansions and renovations; the most recent involved dividing the mansion into three segments for use as condominiums. Beechwood was a filming location of the 1970 film House of Dark Shadows, and a filming location and the primary setting of Savages, a 1972 Merchant Ivory film.

In the 1890s, Henry Walter Webb substantially added to the estate from numerous properties, including an earlier estate named Beechwood. Webb also renovated and expanded the mansion, hiring R. H. Robertson to double the size of the house. Robertson designed the expansion in the Colonial Revival style, to be compatible with the neoclassical Federal style of the original but more ornate.

The Clear View School

A two-story white Neoclassical school building — Vanderlip Hall of The Clear View School

Main article: Scarborough Day School

The Clear View School was built in 1917 by Frank Vanderlip on his Beechwood property as the Scarborough School, the first Montessori school in the United States. In 1978, the school closed; The Clear View School purchased the property in 1980 and opened in 1981. It runs a day treatment program for 83 students with mental disorders.

Rosemont

Rosemont, also known by the names Scarborough House and Hillside, was a Greek Revival mansion built around 1840. The house was near the birthplace of Rear Admiral John Lorimer Worden (1818-1897). It became headquarters to Stein and Day in 1973, and was known at that time as Scarborough House. The house was demolished in February 1990. The area was developed in the late 1990s with five up-scale homes on a cul-de-sac called Admiral Wordens Lane

The mansion was used by Frank Vanderlip as a dormitory for Scarborough School boarding students. Rosemont stood opposite Vanderlip's Beechwood, at the corner of Route 9 and Scarborough Road.

Saint Mary's Episcopal Church

Saint Mary's Episcopal Church, founded in 1839 by William Creighton and incorporated in 1883 as Saint Mary's Church, Beechwood, is Briarcliff Manor's oldest church; it was reincorporated in 1945 as Saint Mary's Church of Scarborough. Its first service was in 1839 in a small schoolhouse on an acre of Creighton's Beechwood property, at the corner of Albany Post and Sleepy Hollow Roads. The service was led by Creighton's son-in-law Reverend Edward Nathaniel Meade.

The granite church was built in 1850 by local stonemasons and paid for primarily by Creighton and Meade, but also by Creighton's wealthy neighbors, including US Navy Commodore Matthew C. Perry, James Watson Webb, William Aspinwall, and Ambrose Kingsland. The first services there were held on September 21, 1851. The church is in near-original condition, with a design based on the 14th-century Gothic St. Mary's parish church in Scarborough, England and is the only church with a complete set of John Bolton (brother of William Jay Bolton) stained-glass windows.

The church's rectory was built in 1931 as a memorial to its first two rectors Creighton and Meade. Notable parishioners included Commodore Matthew Perry, Viola Allen, and Washington Irving. Irving, the author of "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", brought and planted the ivy surrounding the church. He had received it from Walter Scott, from Abbotsford. The ivy of the parish house was brought from the Argonne battlefield, after World War I, by Narcissa Vanderlip. The 200-acre-plus (81 ha) Sleepy Hollow Country Club surrounds the church grounds on three sides.

During World War I, the New York Guard's First Provisional Regiment was stationed at the former Holbrook Military Academy, guarding the Croton Aqueduct. The regiment held a service at Saint Mary's in 1918, as described in a contemporary regimental history:

On Sept. 29th, Supply Company trucks, sector cars, and auxiliary motor service brought from every unit of the regiment on the east side of the Hudson River details to the stated regimental service held at St. Mary's Church, Scarborough, as a tribute from the men of the regiment to Captain Baldwin.
It was a beautiful bright Sunday morning and the men of the various companies, clad in their Sunday best, made a splendid appearance. As each company arrived, it was formed along the side of the Albany Post Road facing the church, and at 11 o'clock, while the church bells rang a final call to worship, Sergt. Bugler Corrie and the headquarters field-music sounded church call. This was immediately followed by assembly, and then, headed by the field-music, the staff, non-commissioned staff, Headquarters Company, Supply Company and the company details of the two battalions marched up through the church grounds to the church itself. At the entrance the field-music swung out of line and played the remainder of the column into the church, where the organist took up the processional.
With the entire church filled with soldiers, it was impossible to seat the civilian congregation and all of the detachments of the National League for Women's Service, the Motor Corps' of America and the Red Cross Motor Corps who marched in the column. Many found seats in the cloister, and others sat on chairs outside the doors of the church.
— T. R. Hutton, page 295

On July 5, 2015, Saint Mary's Episcopal Church closed after 175 years in operation.

William Rockefeller, who lived nearby at Rockwood Hall, was a regular attendee of the church in the last few years of his life.

Scarborough Presbyterian Church

Scarborough Presbyterian Church is the third-oldest in Briarcliff Manor., and has a 2.75-acre (1.11 ha) property. The church has its origins with Elliott Fitch Shepard and his wife Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard purchasing a roadhouse on the Albany Post Road. In 1892, after enlarging and remodeling the store, adding diamond-paned windows and replacing the floors and porches, the building was first used as a church. The church's organization meeting was held with nineteen charter members.

After Elliott Fitch Shepard's death in March 1893, Margaret donated the present church building and manse. The Spanish Renaissance-style church was designed by Augustus Haydel (a nephew of Stanford White) and August D. Shepard (a nephew of Elliott Shepard and of William Rutherford Mead). The two nephews later designed the 1899 Fabbri Mansion in Manhattan. The church's cornerstone was laid on October 13, 1893. During construction of the building's foundation, workers found quicksand, though Shepard was intent on constructing the church there and had the construction workers dig 30 feet into the ground to find firm ground for the foundation. European workers were brought to the site to aide in the building's construction. The Italian Renaissance Revival building was of limestone delivered from Indiana by railroad, requiring a special track laid at Scarborough to accommodate the delivery. The completed church was dedicated on May 11, 1895, in memory of Elliott Fitch Shepard. It was briefly known as Shepard Memorial Church. The dedication was attended by Cornelius Vanderbilt II, Frederick W. Vanderbilt, Chauncey Depew, William Sloane of W. & J. Sloane, William Seward Webb, H. Walter Webb, and James A. Burden Jr.

It was built of pink granite rubble with limestone trim, with a steeple supported by flying buttresses. The interior has mosaic tile floors, fluted pilasters with gilded capitals, a coffered ceiling made of redwood, and stained-glass windows. The church's 1,498-pipe organ was constructed around 1894; it was the first all-electric action organ in the world. The 3-acre (1.2 ha) church property also contains the church's carriage house, used for offices, and the parish house, designed by Augustus D. Shepard and completed in 1908.

From 1929 to 1974, the Scarborough Engine Company of the Briarcliff Manor Fire Department had its first firehouse in the church's garage building or barn, which is older than the church building itself.

Since around 1995, the church has run the Scarborough Presbyterian Children's Center, a non-denominational preschool housed in a building next door to the church, with an outdoor playground nearby. The preschool serves families in Briarcliff Manor and Scarborough, Ossining, Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Pocantico Hills, and Pleasantville.

In 1995, some of the church was renovated; in 2002, the building was more fully renovated due to years of floodwater and runoff damage, including floods from Hurricane Floyd.

Sleepy Hollow Country Club

Main article: Sleepy Hollow Country Club

Sleepy Hollow Country Club was founded in 1911. The main building of Sleepy Hollow Country Club was known as Woodlea, the 140-room $2 million ($67.8 million in 2023) mansion built in 1895 for Elliott Fitch Shepard and his family. The building, with Beaux-Arts and Georgian Revival features, was designed by McKim, Mead & White and built from 1892 to 1895. In 1910, Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard sold the estate to Frank A. Vanderlip and William Rockefeller, who converted it into a country club. Current members include Bill Murray, James Patterson, and several members of the Rockefeller family.

Sparta Cemetery

Sparta Cemetery, or the Presbyterian Burying Ground at Sparta, is a two-acre (0.81 ha) burying ground dating to 1764, making it the oldest cemetery in Westchester County. It is the only contributing property outside Briarcliff Manor; the Ossining Historical Society has maintained the cemetery since 1984. As of 1984, the cemetery is still owned by the First Presbyterian Church of Ossining; its original church building was built c. 1768 and was moved towards the center of Ossining in 1800. The grounds hold 34 known Revolutionary War veterans. Many of the area's earliest residents are buried in the cemetery.

In September 1780, HMS Vulture fired a cannonball into the gravestone of Abraham Ladew, Jr., who died in 1774, at the age of 7 years. The Vulture was traveling south from Croton Point to pick up Major John André, a rendezvous that never occurred; Andre was captured in Tarrytown on his way to the vessel.

Gallery

Entrance from Revolutionary Rd.
The Ledew gravestone was stolen before 2009; a plaque remains to describe the event
Gravestone of the Leatherman
Entrance from US Route 9

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