The building was originally a station house for a small railway that used to travel up the very steep Park Hill.

The neighborhood boasts impressive vistas of the Hudson and large Tudor-style homes, these grandiose structures are now complimented by smaller ranches and colonials that have since been constructed in the neighborhood

The Park Hill section of Yonkers was developed in 1888 by the American Real Estate Company of Manhattan. It is one of the earliest examples of aa planned community in the New York metropolitan area, conceived as an upscale locale for money-minded New Yorkers to make their own outside of the city’s limits.

Atop the hill, the American Real Estate Company built large, European-esque structures meant to give the area an aristocratic flavor. These include the now demolished Hendric Hudson Hotel.