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.
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.
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."
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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.
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.
... 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 ...
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.
... 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 ...
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.
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.
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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, ...
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.
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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.
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.
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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. ...
... of course, is a good thing. At about the same time, members of the Bolton Family who lived in the Priory at Pelham Manor and who had built Christ Church there were vying for the souls of City Islanders as well. Beginning in about 1849, Adele Bolton, ...
... did little to hamper our major transportation arteries. . . . One such accident occurred on Boston Post Road in Pelham Manor on the evening of Wednesday, June 20, 1906. The accident occurred on the roadway roughly where today's Our Lady of Perpetual ...
Today there is a very short stretch of roadway at the end of Pelhamdale Avenue parallel to Long Island Sound that runs a few hundred yards within Pelham Manor known as Shore Road. Shore Road continues into Pelham Bay Park, once part of the Town of Pelham, to Pelham Bridge and beyond.
In the early years after the founding of the New York Athletic Club facility on Travers Island in 1888, whenever a major event was held on the island all of Pelham buzzed with activity. Trains rolled into and out of the Pelhamville station on the New Haven Main Line and the Pelham Manor depot on the Branch Line.
... tried to be first to reach the designated suburban destination. It was time for a change. It turns out that the Pelham Manor area and Pelham Bay Park played a role in that change. In October, 1901, the chairman of the Runs and Tours Committee, Mr. ...
... Haven Branch Line railroad overpass where a few homes stood on Manor Circle adjacent to the railroad tracks and Pelham Manor Depot. Old growth woods lined both sides of the roadway. With no streetlights, the towering trees made the roadway ...
... of the proposal in the late 1920s to construct the world's largest airport across the Hutchinson River from Pelham Manor and to build an associated dirigibles landing field on sixty acres of Pelham Manor land to be annexed by New York City. See ...
... Court on the Same Site Overlooking Pelham Country Club . In 1925, more construction occurred on the Village of Pelham Manor than ever before in its history. Planned construction of the Hutchinson River Parkway was well underway. Developments along ...
When most think of the inventor of the telephone and the phono graph, most think of Thomas Alva Edison. Pelhamites, however, think of Pelham Manor resident Ezra Torrence Gilliland who actually assisted Edison in the creation and improvement of both inventions.
... occasions. For a few examples, see : Thu., Apr. 21, 2016: St. Louis Newspaper Described the "Exclusivity" of Pelham Manor in 1892 . Fri., Nov. 27, 2015: Detailed and Fascinating Description of the Village of Pelham Manor in 1892 . Tue., Apr. 28, ...
... that such a system would not suffice. Moreover, other nearby communities including the settlements known as Pelham Manor and Pelhamville were also beginning to look for a larger, more-reliable water source. To make matters worse, in 1886 the area ...
... all of Pelham grew increasingly concerned with the quality of the water sourced from Pelham Reservoir. As Pelham Manor, Pelham, and North Pelham worked on finding alternative water sources, construction began on the new Hutchinson River Parkway that ...
... Turnpike and Post Road, otherwise known as the section of today's Boston Post Road that passes through Pelham Manor, was a toll road. Other bridges and highways in the county required tolls as well. The people of Westchester were not happy about it. ...
Recently I wrote about a pair of lawsuits brought by George H. Reynolds, President and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Pelham Manor Protective Club, in 1883 against Town of Pelham Supervisor James Hyatt and the Westchester County Board of Supervisors to stop a tax levy against Town of Pelham residents to fund construction of a new City Island Bridge. See Mon., Jun. 05, 2017: For Once, Pelham Manor Mainlanders Told City Islanders "No" in 1883 .
... the side of the roadway away from Long Island Sound. The hill is just past the low spot on Shore Road near the Pelham Manor boundary at the small cove often referenced as "Plum Cove" where a small creek sometimes called "Roosevelt Creek" still ...