Obituary of Cornelius Winter Bolton Published on August 30, 1906
Cornelius Winter Bolton was a son of the Rev. Robert Bolton who founded Christ Church in Pelham Manor.
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Broadway Playwright George V. Hobart Lived in ‘Ruraldene’ at 219 Jackson Avenue
... was an acclaimed and successful Broadway playwright of the early 20th century. He lived in a lovely home in Pelham Manor known as "Ruraldene" that once was located in an area that includes today's 219 Jackson Avenue. Ruraldene no longer exists. The ...
Why is the Lovely Home at 467 Pelhamdale Avenue Only 18 Feet Wide on a 25-Foot-Wide Lot?
There is a lovely, and some might say unique, two-story home located at 467 Pelhamdale Avenue in the Village of Pelham Manor that is only eighteen feet wide. Moreover, it sits on a lot that is only twenty-five feet wide.
Woman Rescued From Roof Following Fierce Westchester House Fire
... floor, officials said. New Rochelle firefighters got an assist from crews in White Plains, Eastchester Yonkers, Pelham Manor, Eastchester and Greenville. It took upwards of 50 firefighters several hours to get the three-alarm fire under control. ...
Multiple Agencies Battle Three-Alarm New Rochelle House Fire
... Crews from New Rochelle got an assist battling the three-alarm blaze from departments from Pelham, Yonkers and Pelham Manor. It was not immediately clear if there if any residents or firefighters were injured.
As Occupants Prepare to Jump from Roof, Three Alarm Fire Rips Through …
... call came in about 7 p.m., soon expanding to a 2nd and then 3rd alarm as mutual aide calls went out to Yonkers, Pelham Manor and other area fire companies. When fire fighters arrived in the scene the occupants of the house at 201 Elm Street were on ...
Pelham Historic Marker Placed on Hutchinson River Parkway in 1927
On Tuesday, October 18, 1927, the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution unveiled a New York State historic marker on the Hutchinson River Parkway near the home known as "Pelhamdale," located at 45 Iden Avenue in Pelham Manor. The home is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Using a Massive Explosion to Market Pelham Manor Real Estate in 1876
An odd advertisement appeared in New York City's The Evening Telegraph on September 25, 1876. It advertised an upcoming auction sale of land and houses in Pelham Manor by the Pelham Manor & Huguenot Heights Association.
Pelhamville Citizens Petitioned to Establish a Fire District In Early 1893
In late 1892 and early 1893, before the incorporation of the Village of North Pelham and the adjacent Village of Pelham , residents of the area north of the newly-incorporated Village of Pelham Manor agitated to form a modern volunteer fire fighting unit to fight fires in Pelhamville and the area we know today as Pelham Heights. Under recently enacted New York State laws, the taxpayers of Pelhamville and Pelham Heights prepared a petition signed by more than half the resident taxpayers in that part of the town asking for the " authority to organize a fire department in that portion of said town lying north of the old Boston Post Road, and to be known as the Pelhamville fire department."
What Was Travers Island Like in 1888 Before the New York Athletic Club Built its First Clubhouse?
... a site for the club's second home. The committee settled on an idyllic and beautiful island off the shore of Pelham Manor that was, at the time, attached to the mainland only by a simple, narrow causeway. At the time, the island was most frequently ...
Pelham Country Club Controller Sentenced for Embezzlement
... January 1, 2010 through February 28, 2015, the defendant, who was the Controller of the Pelham Country Club in Pelham Manor, New York, systematically embezzled funds for over five years. She drew and negotiated checks from the bank account of Pelham ...
The Prevost Mansion Known as The Shrubbery, Once Owned by Aaron Burr, Burned December 31, 1880
A large home known as "The Shrubbery" once stood along Split Rock Road in Pelham Manor. The home once was owned briefly by Aaron Burr, Revolutionary War hero and third Vice President of the United States before he infamously shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel on July 11, 1804.
More on the 1873 Construction and Opening of the New Haven Branch Line Through Pelham
The origins of the Village of Pelham Manor can be traced back to March 2, 1866, when a newspaper notice announced an intent to incorporate the Harlem River and Portchester Railroad. The railroad was intended to run parallel to Long Island Sound to open up to development a vast section including the Pelham shoreline from Pelham Bridge to New Rochelle.
Has One of the Most Enduring Pelham History Mysteries Been Solved? The Mystery of Charles A. Voight
... little trolley shuttled back and forth, at that time, between the Pelham Station on the New Haven Line and the Pelham Manor Station on the New Haven Branch Line. In 1909, the rattletrap trolley click-clacked along tracks laid on Wolfs Lane to ...
Fulton Avenue Drawbridge Once Again Closed Indefinitely
With the holiday season coming to a close, DPW crews are gearing up to kick off long-awaited rehabilitation efforts at the Fulton Avenue Drawbridge along the Mount Vernon and Pelham Manor border. Beginning on Wednesday, Jan. 4, the bridge will be closed to motorists and pedestrians between Secor Lane and Edison Avenue.
Former Iona Prep Football Player Ryan Coleman, 24, Of Pelham
Born the eldest child to Greg and Adrienne Coleman of Pelham Manor, Coleman attended Prospect Hill Elementary School in Pelham Manor, and Iona Grammar and Iona Preparatory High School in New Rochelle. He played football for Iona Prep and with his team, won a State Championship.
Violin Virtuoso Toscha Seidel, And Famed Dog Hector, Lived in Pelham
... As if such claims to fame were not enough, Toscha and Estelle Seidel of Stellar Avenue in the Village of Pelham Manor were famous throughout Pelham for one additional reason. They were the owners of "Hector," a monumentally-large Great Dane that ...
Westchester Exceeds HUD Mandate With 790th Affordable Housing Unit
... recommendation that it sue seven communities in Westchester County: Croton-on-Hudson, Harrison, Lewisboro, Pelham Manor, Larchmont, North Castle and Rye Brook. Borgia added that the Democratic Caucus has added funds to conduct a comprehensive ...
Westchester Meets HUD Mandate With 750th Affordable Housing Unit
... on's recommendation that it sue seven communities in Westchester County: Croton-on-Hudson, Harrison, Lewisboro, Pelham Manor, Larchmont, North Castle and Rye Brook.
Stage Coach Days In Old Pelham
... in the Town of Pelham . Mon., Apr. 12, 2010: New York Athletic Club Stage Coach Accident Leads to Death of Pelham Manor Man . Wed., Mar. 03, 2010: 1879 Advertisement for Robert J. Vickery's City Island Stage Line, A Predecessor to the City Island ...
The Fire that Destroyed the Miners’ Powder Company of Pelhamville in 1878
... As fate would have it, Pelhamville nearly suffered exactly the same fate. During the 1870s, famed engineer and Pelham Manor resident George Huntington Reynolds founded a company name Miners' Powder Company and established a dynamite manufacturing ...
History of the World Record Pelham Manor Model Railroad of the Westchester Model Club
For a number of years after the New Haven Branch Line stopped running passenger service in December, 1937 at the beautiful little Pelham Manor Depot designed by noted architect Cass Gilbert, a model railroad club was permitted to use the empty station. The Westchester Model Club, Inc. built a massive model railroad that even included a tiny replica of the very Pelham Manor Depot within which the model railroad sat.
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Pelham Manor Sided With the Anti-Automobilists in 1902
The year was 1902. The new-fangled contraption known by some as the horseless carriage and by others as the automobile was beginning to crowd local roadways in Pelham Manor, particularly Boston Post Road, Pelhamdale Avenue, and Shore Road.
Trial to be held 10 years after Connecticut parkway deaths
... accident. Their sons were 7 and 9 at the time and now live with family in the Hartford area. Relatives of the Pelham Manor, New York, couple asked the state claims commissioner in 2008 for permission to sue the state, as required by law. Their ...
Paul Revere Galloped Through Pelham and the Bronx Many Times
... yet exist. (It was created by New York State statute in 1788.) The area was known as the Manor of Pelham (or "Pelham Manor" for short). The brief stretch of the Old Boston Post Road that ran through Pelham ran from the border with Eastchester ...
Alfred J. Del Re, 46, of Northborough
He leaves his devoted wife of 22 years, Jodi C. Del Re; his loving children, Maggie Del Re and Ray Del Re, both of Northborough; his parents, AJ Del Re Jr. and his wife Jenny of Pelham Manor, N.Y., and Don and Angela Smith of Naples, Fla.; his mother-in-law, Nancy Kraus of Northborough; his siblings, Jonathan Del Re, Brian Del Re; Max Del Re, Alex Del Re, Jeff Smith, Stacy Smith and Darby Smith; many nieces, nephews; and his aunt. Born in New Rochelle, N.Y., Al was raised and educated in Barrington Hills, Ill.
Photographs of the Old Hunter House on Travers Island Before it Burned in 1889
... devoted to the history of the Town and the surrounding region. One of those local historians, Mark Gaffney of Pelham Manor, is a member of the New York Athletic Club and magnanimously has provided two images of the Old Hunter House published in the ...
Report on the Previous 25 Years of Progress in Pelham Published in 1913
... Towns, and Cities. They were proud of their three "artistic" railroad stations: the Pelham Station, the Pelham Manor Station, and the Fifth Avenue Station of the New York, Boston and Westchester Railway. Pelham also was proud of its new high school, ...
More on the 1889 Fire that Destroyed the Hunter House on Travers Island
When the New York Athletic Club of New York City bought the island it renamed "Travers Island" in Pelham Manor, there stood on the island a beautiful old home known as the "Old Hunter House." Named after John Hunter of Hunter's Island who had remodeled and improved the home during the mid-19th century, the main portion of the home was said to have been built in 1812 for Temple Emmett, a member of the Emmett Family that long resided in the area.
James Montgomery Flagg, Who Created the Iconic ‘I Want You’ Uncle Sam, Was Born in Pelham
... in 1868, shows the location of the home in 1868. Although numerous sources indicate Flagg was born in "Pelham Manor, New York" it is debatable whether the Split Rock Road location where he was born is properly labeled "Pelham Manor." The Village of ...
John Robert Beecroft and the Beecroft Family of Pelham Manor
... five years. Beecroft became an active member of the community that, in 1891, incorporated as the Village of Pelham Manor. According to the minutes of the Pelham Manor Protect Club, a predecessor to village government, Beecroft was elected a member ...
Reminiscences of One of Pelham’s Oldest Residents Regarding “Old…
... in a number of previous postings. See , e.g. : Fri., Sep. 09, 2005: Reminiscences of Lockwood Barr of Pelham Manor Published in 1940 . Tue., Sep. 27, 2005: I. C. Hill's Reminiscences of Early Public Schools in Pelham . Tue., Mar. 28, 2006: More ...
The Suicidal Specter of Manger Circle
There once stood a magnificent elm that towered above the Manger Circle neighborhood in the Village of Pelham Manor. It stood on the property known today as 5 Manger Circle.
Fears in 1934 and 1935 that the Historic Home Known as Pelhamdale Would Be Razed
One of the two oldest homes in the Town of Pelham is the beautiful historic home known as "Pelhamdale." The address of that home today is 45 Iden Avenue in the Village of Pelham Manor.
Sketches of Pelham in 1935 By Artist Vernon Howe Bailey
... artistically delightful from an artist's viewpoint is the William L. Curtin residence at 35 Beech Tree Lane, Pelham Manor. The Country Club, Bolton Priory, the High School facade, and our own chief joy, the Westchester & Boston R.R. arch over Fifth ...
Stamford police: Fleeing drug dealer causes multiple accidents
... New York border. Westchester County police were notified, but the Acura crashed while exiting the highway in Pelham Manor, N.Y., Conklin said. The driver, Eric Henry , 29, of Mount Vernon, N.Y., was charged by New York police with criminal ...
Merrell H. Hambleton, fundraiser who helped run Phoenix Theatre, dies
Merrell H. Hambleton, a fundraiser who assisted her husband legendary producer T. Edward Hambleton in the operation of his Phoenix Theater in New York, died Saturday at her home in the Broadmead retirement community in Cockeysville from complications of a fall. The daughter of Albert Hopkins, an insurance executive, and Nettie Beall, a homemaker, Merrell Hopkins was born in New Rochelle, N.Y., and raised in Pelham Manor, N.Y. She was a graduate of Warrenton Country School, in Warrenton, Va., and spent summers at the Perry Mansfield Camp in Steamboat Springs, Colo., where her mother ran an adult camp and made costumes for the theater school.
Images of the Pelham Countryside Published in 1901
... England Thruway obliterated much of the ancient roadway between Split Rock and the New York City border with Pelham Manor where a portion of Split Rock Road remains today, lined with lovely residential homes. A portion of Split Rock Road that can be ...
The Union Sabbath School Society of Pelhamville Used the Pelhamville…
... for the youngsters. It arranged for revolving appearances of local church ministers from Mount Vernon and Pelham Manor to deliver sermons to the congregation. Early services and Sunday School gatherings were held in the parlor of the home of Mr. ...