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HomeMy WebLinkAbout07 Subdivisions pg 226-256 Entirely PCRUFSD 2026-06-01 ...1004AM 226 Chapter 07: Rye Brook subdivisions entirely within the PCRUFSD The following are residential subdivisions at the southern end of Village of Rye Brook, which are entirely within the Port Chester-Rye Union Free School District (“PCRUFSD”): The earliest subdivisions in what is now the 1982 Village of Rye Brook (formerly known as the unincorporated portion of the Town of Rye), were all situated along the eastside of Ridge Street, stretching one mile south from the 1889 Whittemore subdivision at the Hawthorne Avenue/ Irenhyl Avenue/ Ridge Street intersection to the 1904 Rye Village/ 1942 Rye City boundary at High Street by the St. Mary’s Cemetery. They included the following subdivisions: 1889 Whittemore, 1889-1890 Tingue Park, 1891 Washington Park, 1886 R.F. Brundage, 1907 Westland, 1926 Osborn Park, and 1929 B-C-K Realty Corporation, with plat maps shown in pages to follow. The westside of Ridge Street along that same one-mile southern section, with farms backing up to the Blind Brook as an invaluable irrigation source, remained as large tracts of farmland until re-developed as the following residential subdivisions: 1924 Chester Terrace, 1963 Rye Ridge Apartments and 1988 Brookridge ... and as well as the retail/ commercial zone created south of Westchester Avenue that started with: the 1955 Blonder’s Milk/ Dairylea (then Dellwood) dairy truck depot building converted into the 1959 Ridge Service Station (originally pumping Texaco gasoline) at 93 S. Ridge Street; the 1955 Ridge Bowl bowling alley at 207 S. Ridge Street (re-numbered as #200); the 1960 Rye Ridge Shopping Center; the 1965 Rye Ridge Professional Office Building at 111 S. Ridge Street; the 1965 Donald Art Company showroom building at 90 S. Ridge Street; to name a few of the pioneers. Whittemore (1889) Map of The Whittemore Subdivision, Port Chester, NY ... prepared May 1889 by surveyor J.A. Kirby and filed June 24, 1889 as Map 912 with the Westchester County Register’s Office (now known as the County Clerk). 227 Tingue Park (1889-1890) Above: Map of Tingue Park, Town of Rye, NY, prepared by surveyor J.A. Kirby and filed June 11, 1890, in Vol. 8 at Page 77 ...and supersedes the prior J.A. Kirby map filed January 23, 1889 in Vol. 8 at Page 11 with the Westchester County Register’s Office (now known as County Clerk). Tingue Park was the site of the residence of William J. Tingue (1837-1914 ... obituary below left) of Tingue, House & Co., the proprietors of the Hawthorne Woolen Mill (1875-1899) that later became American Felt Co. (1899-1968) and GAF (1968-1978) operations in Glenville, CT. Converted to The Mill Greenwich apartment building in 2021 at 10 Glenville Street. See pages 7-14 of this link for history: https://greenwichhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Glenville-Historic-District-NRHP.pdf ... and this link: https://greenwichhistory.org/glenville-historic-district/ and their photo below. 228 Washington Park (1891) Map of Washington Park, Running from Regent to Ridge Streets, Port Chester, NY, The Property of James S. Merritt & Purdy G. Sands ... prepared June 1891 by surveyor Purdy G. Sands and filed December 29, 1891, as Map 1500 with the Westchester County Register’s Office (now known as the County Clerk). 229 R.F. Brundage (1886) Map of Building Lots Belonging To R.F. Brundage, Esq., Port Chester, NY ... surveyed April 1886 by surveyor Purdy G. Sands and filed April 27, 1886, as Map Vol. 7 at Page 4 with the Westchester County Register’s Office (now known as the County Clerk). This 12-acre parcel conveyed by farmer Tommy Lyon’s daughter, Mary Willis Lyon Purdy to Robert F. Brundage in January 1886, was part of the 112-acre, Thomas Lyon Farm that Thomas Lyon inherited in 1850 along with 100 acres at the westside of Ridge Street from his father Samuel Lyon. These lots became the Franklin Street homes between South Ridge Street and South Regent Street. Westland (1907) Westland, Property of Peck Realty Company, Port Chester, NY, prepared by surveyor J.A. Kirby & Son and filed January 3, 1907, as Map 1691 with the Westchester County Register’s Office (now known as the County Clerk). The lots along Grant Street were condemned in the late 1950s for the Cross Westchester Expressway (I-287). 230 Chester Terrace (1924) ... and adjacent City of Rye’s Brookside (1982) John Dixon Minuse (1836-1887), born in New York City, was a carpenter with a business specializing in window blinds, sashes and doors, located in downtown Port Chester at the corner of Main and Adee Streets. In 1862, he married Port Chester native, Louisa M. [née Purdy] Minuse (1835-1905). In March 1869, Mr. Minuse purchased a 39.073-acre parcel at the westside of Ridge Street, abutting the Blind Brook ... just south of Old White Plains Road (now Bowman Avenue) from the Estate of George Wood, for $5,000. Above: The Port Chester Journal newspaper ads by John D. Minuse: (Left) September 25, 1873 & (Right) July 22, 1869. Below: Excerpt of 1867 F.W. Beers atlas Plate 29, showing location of the 39.073-acre, Minuse Farm of John Dixon Minuse and his wife Louisa M. [née Purdy] Minuse, from 1867-1899. Their dwelling was at 200 S. Ridge St. 231 The 39.073-acre Minuse Farm and adjacent 17.94-acre parcel at the beginning of Ridge Street had been part of an ~57-acre, Town of Rye parcel bounded by Ridge Street, Purchase Road (renamed as “Street”) and the Blind Brook, which had been part of the ~164+-acre Strang Farm that straddled both Purchase Street, as well as the Blind Brook boundary separating the Towns of Harrison and Rye, which the Allen P. Carpenter family owned from 1833-1849 before selling the 57 acres to Isaiah C. Whitmore in March 1849. Whitmore bought another 73 acres in Harrison from Joseph Carpenter in August 1849. 107 acres of the former Strang Farm situated west of Purchase Road (Street) and Highland Road was sold by Allen P. Carpenter to Charles Park in October 1868. In May 1887, wealthy businessman Charles A. Greer (1848-1922) and wife Clara Meyers Greer, acquired the 17.94- acre Rye parcel at the beginning of Ridge Street (corner of Purchase Street) and an abutting 78.116 acres on the west side of the Blind Brook in Harrison. Greer’s ~96-acre gentleman’s farm (see map below) known as Brookside Farm, with his circa-1910, 32-room, red brick Colonial mansion and farm outbuildings for his pigs, cows, sheep & horses, was sold 47 years later in December 1934 to Jean Louise Flagler Matthews (1910-1979), the granddaughter Henry M. Flagler (1830-1913), the industrialist, and founding partner in Standard Oil with John D. Rockefeller and Florida East Coast Railroad baron and developer of hotels/tourism that put Miami and Palm Beach on the map in the 1890s. Married four times, Jean retained the surname of her first husband, Mark Matthews, and maintained her Brookside estate with floral greenhouses for 43.25 years until her March 22, 1979 death, while vacationing in Maui. Excerpt of 1910 G.W. Bromley atlas Plate 37, showing the ~37-acre remainder of the 39.073-acre, Minuse Farm (1867- 1899) purchased in 1905 by John E. Wyman, which he sold in September 1919 to Thorvald Cappelen, and then became the 1924 Chester Terrace subdivision of local developer Irving M. Austin & Dixon W. Kitchen of Kentucky. NOTES: (1) In August 1885, John & Louisa Minuse conveyed a ~0.9-acre portion of the tract at 242 South Ridge Street to daughter Phebe Minuse Hains & husband, Lawrence L. Hains, to build their residence (see red ® above). (2) Eight months prior to John D. Minuse’s death at age 52 on September 30, 1887, he and wife Louisa Purdy Minuse sold a ~2.66-acre portion (see green ® above) of their farm, situated across from St. Mary’s Cemetery, containing the Minuse Cottage, to May T. Merritt in January 1887, for $1,600 for use by her husband Wyman A. Merritt’s business of the sale, breaking and training of young horses. This ~2.66-acre parcel with frontages at Ridge Street and the Blind Brook, was acquired 22.5 years later, on July 26, 1909, for $3,600 by florist Emil Leonhardt, who in turn sold it 12 years later to another florist, Carl Gustav Lundell, and wife Matilda, on September 2, 1921. Lundell’s Florist operated at 306 South Ridge Street for 65 years until December 31, 1986, when an expanded 4.8-acre site was sold to the developer of 46 Brookridge townhouses. 232 Known as the Minuse Farm for three decades from 1867-1899, widow Louisa Purdy Minuse sold the ~37-acre remainder of property for $10,500 in June 1899 to James S. Harris of Manhattan. Harris lost the property six years later in bankruptcy, whereby John E. Wyman of Rye purchased a ~36-acre portion of Minuse Farm for $22,100 in June 1905 and then acquired the ~0.9-acre parcel from Lawrence L. Hains & Phebe Minuse Hains in October 1905, to reunite it as part of the former Minuse Farm tract. Above: Excerpt of 1925 flyover survey #12841-248 by Underwood & Underwood from the Historical Aerial Photograph Collection -- Westchester County GIS, showing the South Ridge Street corridor, including: (i) the ~96-acre Charles A. Greer estate; (ii) the 2.66-acre Lundell’s Florist strip of land (formerly florist Emil Leonhard from 1909-1921); and (iii) the ~37-acre remainder of the Minuse Farm with outbuildings, being re- developed as the 1924 Chester Terrace subdivision. 233 The John E. Wyman Company sold the ~37-acre, former Minuse Farm property on September 5, 1919, to Thorvald Cappelen and wife Astrid. On May 28, 1923, Cappelen sold the ~0.9-acre, 242 South Ridge Street parcel with the circa-1885, Lawrence Hains/ Phebe Minuse Hains dwelling on it, to their daughter Marion Hains Lyons Fourteen months later, on August 8, 1924, widower Thorvald Cappelen sold the ~36-acre balance to developers Dixon W. Kitchen of Kentucky and local partner Irving M. Austin of Austin & Merritt, who were amongst the preeminent Port Chester-based real estate brokers, auctioneers, developers and insurance agents of that era. Below is the Chester Terrace subdivision plat map they filed on August 5, 1924. A century later in 2025, after various re- subdivisions and the loss of lots from the late-1950s land acquisitions by the County of Westchester for the Cross Westchester Expressway (I-287) that cut a path through Chester Terrace, there are approximately 113 residential structures in this R2-F (2-family) zoned subdivision, with most being two dwelling units per structure. Map of Chester Terrace, Property of Dixon W. Kitchen in the Town of Rye, NY, prepared by surveyor J.A. Kirby Co. and filed August 5, 1924, as Map 2650 with the Westchester County Register’s Office (now known as the County Clerk) covering the former 1867-1899 Minuse Farm, excluding the ~0.9-acre, 242 South Ridge Street parcel *** NOTES: (a) Notice the footprint of the Minuse Farm’s large dwelling within the 2.4731-acre Lot 2 in Block “A” that the developers immediately sold to Moses Stern in August 1924, which structure continued in residential use until 1992. The Ridge Bowl bowling alley structures were built in 1956-1964 as additions to the residence. All remained until 1992 the site was cleared for the 200 South Ridge Street expansion of the 1961 Rye Ridge Shopping Center. (b) See the footprints of two stables and garage structures in Block “A” left over from the Minuse Farm (1867-1899) and subsequent owners that were demolished, to build Chester Terrace homes along Highview & Westview Avenues. *** The ~0.9-acre, parcel at [242 South Ridge Street] conveyed by John Dixon Minuse and his wife, Louisa, to their daughter Phebe Minuse Hains & husband Lawrence L. Hains in August 1885 to build a residence, was excluded from June 1899 sale of the remainder of Minuse Farm to James S. Harris, by widow Louisa Purdy Minuse and subsequent conveyance by Harris’ Bankruptcy Court to John E. Wyman in June 1905, but Wyman acquired the ~0.9-acre, 242 South Ridge Street parcel from Lawrence Hains & Phebe Minuse Hains in October 1905 such that Wyman’s 1919 sale to Thorvald Cappelen, included all Minuse Farm parcels. Cappelen then sold the Hains house lot at 242 South Ridge Street in May 1923 to their daughter, Marion Hains Lyon, prior to 1924 sale of tract to developers. 234 Tax Maps 141.035 (above) and 141.043 (below) dated June 1, 2023 via the Town of Rye Assessment Office, as maintained on its website by the CAI Technologies database, illustrates how the various 25’ wide Chester Terrace subdivision lots have been combined to build the various dwellings thereon. The Cross Westchester Expressway (I- 287) that opened in late December 1960, severed the 1924 Chester Terrace subdivision with land takings. Lundell’s Florist (1921-1986) acquired Chester Terrace, Block D lots 11-18 & 23 (~1.1 acres) in 1925 plus a separate 2.66-acre parcel in 1921, all south of Wyman Street. 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L E G E N DSPECIAL DISTRICTSREVISION TABLECHANGES OR ADDITIONSMADE BYDATECHANGES OR ADDITIONSREVISION TABLEDATEMADE BY MAP DATE1" = 50' 50050 SHEET INDEX GRAPHIC SCALE WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK TAX MAP THIS MAP WAS PREPARED FOR TAX PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT TO BEREPRODUCED OR USED FOR SURVEYING OR CONVEYANCINGMAP CONVERTED TO DIGITAL TAXMAP FORMAT AUGUST 2004 BY DATUM = STATE PLANE NAD83E IN FEET ROAD OR RAIL ROAD BNDY.PROPERTY LINE VILLAGE LINESECTION LINE/BLOCK LIMIT COUNTY LINETOWN LINE STREAM OR RIVER STATE LINE DENOTES COMMON OWNER COORDINATE LOCATORTAX MAP BLOCK No. RIGHT OF WAY 116.00-1-11TAX MAP PARCEL No. CALCULATED ACREAGEDEED ACREAGE SCALED DIMENSION DEED DIMENSION 7.5 AC.7.5 A300 S 301.5 5 SCHOOL: SEWER: WATER: FIRE: LIGHT: REFUSE:11 PLEASANT STREET, LITTLETON, NH 03561800.322.4540 - WWW.CAI-TECH.COM REVISED & REPRINTED BY ³TOWN OF RYE-VILLAGE OF RYE BROOK 141.035141.028141.027141.026 141.036 141.044141.043 141.035 1 JUNE, 2021 235 Ridge Bowl (1955-1992) ... Rye Ridge Shopping Center expands to 200 S. Ridge Street (1994) The 1924 Chester Terrace subdivision’s 2.4731-acre, Lot 2 in Block “A” containing the former Minuse Farm main dwelling, was converted into six apartments in 1945 by then-owner, Antoinetta Latella, who then sold the parcel in November 1954 to Paul Tartaglia, who added his Ridge Bowl cinder block, retail structure with 18 bowling lanes to the site in 1956. A series of 1958-1964 additions and alterations added: (a) the Ridge Bar & Lounge at the rear of the house in 1958; (b) eight additional bowling lanes in 1960; plus (c) a billiard parlor addition in 1963-64. The lower level with primary access at the rear of the expanded building, featured slot car racing. As kids growing up in the 1960s, we loved the Ridge Bowl and the slot car racing tracks downstairs. The bowling alley, using an address of 207 Ridge Street, closed in April 1992 after 35 ½ years in business ... to make way for the new retail/commercial structure, opening in 1994 as the renumbered 200 South Ridge Street expansion of the Rye Ridge Shopping Center, by the same developers, John Merritt & Warren Holby, who built the original shopping center next door that had opened on the evening of November 15, 1961. Westmore Realty (the entity of brothers Paul and Louis F. Tartaglia) sold the property in 1985 to John Merritt and Warren Holby, the owner/ developer of the 1961 Rye Ridge Shopping Center, but leased back the bowling alley until April 1994, when the lease ended and Village of Rye Brook approvals for the expansion of the shopping center came through. The 200 South Ridge Street upper section of the shopping center opened in 1994 with eight new retail stores facing Ridge Street, including Blockbuster VideoÔ and Lenny’s Bagels (the only original tenant still there in 2025) ... plus additional commercial office/ retail uses at the rear of the new 1994 building. The Daily Item newspaper excerpts dated November 13, 1956 (above left) with opening week advertisement and March 6, 1991 (above right) with photo thirteen months before the April 1992 closing of the Ridge Bowl. 236 Above: Survey of Part of Lot No. 2, Block A, Chester Terrace dated September 14, 1959, prepared by J.A. Kirby & Co., showing the Ridge Bowl structures on the 2.4731-acre lot at 200 South Ridge Street (then using a 207 Ridge Street address), purchased in November 1954 by Paul Tartaglia, who added the Ridge Bowl cinder block, retail structure with 18 bowling lanes to the former Minuse Farm dwelling in 1956 and the Ridge Bar & Lounge at the rear of the house in 1958 ... prior to other 1960-1964 additions. Below: Existing Conditions plan of 200 South Ridge Street, dated April 2, 1992, prepared by surveyor, Rocco V. D’Andrea, for Rye Ridge Shopping Center developers, Merritt & Holby. 237 242 South Ridge Street ... a remnant from 1885 and the Minuse Farm The 0.9-acre parcel at 242 South Ridge Street was re-subdivided in October 1967 into five (5) new lots at 242, 244 and 246 South Ridge Street and 20 & 22 Highview Avenue, while retaining the circa-1885, Phebe Louise Minuse Hains/ Lawrence Lincoln Hains dwelling in Lot 4 (0.21-acre), still using the 242 South Ridge Street address. FUN FACT: The original ~0.9-acre, 242 South Ridge Street parcel carved out in 1885 for daughter Phebe Minuse Hains, became the residence of Harriet Acker Smith (1885-1964) from 1926 to 1946. Harriet grew up 1.6 miles north on Ridge Street on the 54-acre, Acker Farm, as a daughter of Ward Haight Acker (1819-1908) and his wife, Letitia Schmaling Acker (1840-1906). Ward Acker, after whom, Acker Drive from the 1950 Rich Manor subdivision is named, owned over 120 acres along Ridge Street. 54 acres at the eastside of Ridge Street, became the 1950 Rich Manor subdivision. 66.31 acres at westside of Ridge Street, became Katherine & Dunlevy Milbank’s Ridgelands estate from 1912-1959 (Milbank mansion being B.O.C.E.S. offices at 17 Berkley Drive since 1963) ...then Pine Ridge subdivision, Sections 4, 5 & 6 filed in 1959, 1961 & 1962, respectively, and 1962 Roselyn Park subdivision. Above: Subdivision Map of a Parcel of Land Shown on Map of Chester Terrace, Property of Dixon W. Kitchen in the Town of Rye, NY, prepared by surveyor Sal Spinelli and filed November 27, 1967, as Map 15657 with the Westchester County Register’s Office (now known as the County Clerk). Below: Excerpt of June 1, 2023, Town of Rye tax map no. 141.035, maintained by CAI Technologies for the Town of Rye Assessment Office showing the structures built as the 5-lot, 1967 re-subdivision of the ~0.9-acre parcel carved out of the Minuse Farm in 1885 for daughter Phebe Minuse Hains and her husband Lawrence L. Hains. As of 2025, the 242 South Ridge Street lot, reduced to 0.21-acre under the 1967 re-subdivision, still contains the circa-1885, Phebe Louise Minuse Hains & Lawrence L. Hains house. 238 April 2009, Town of Rye Assessment Office photos (above and below) of 242 South Ridge Street via their website. The circa-1885 dwelling, originally sat on a ~0.9-acre parcel that was carved out of the 39-acre, Minuse Farm, and deeded in August 1885 by John D. Minuse and wife, Louisa Purdy Minuse, to their daughter Phebe Louise Minuse Hains (1863-1949) and her husband, Lawrence L. Hains (1863-1938), a professional violinist. In 1967, the ~0.9-acre parcel was re-subdivided into five (5) lots, with the Lot 4 (~0.21-acre) containing the 1885 Minuse/ Hains dwelling. 239 Ridge Street Golf Range ... Nicholas De Mane’s Ridge Street Golf Range (1940-1958) The Ridge Street Golf Range was located on 10.195 acres at the southwest corner of Ridge Street and Bowman Avenue for 17 years, until closed in 1958 when developers John C. Merritt and Warren B. Holby purchased the 10.195-acre golf range site plus an abutting ~2.1-acre, northerly portion of the Chester Terrace subdivision where they built The Rye Ridge Shopping Center that opened in its place in November 1961. Nicholas De Mane (1887-1973), a PGA golf pro was the head pro at The Blind Brook Club at Anderson Hill Road, until his retirement the in 1957, owned and operated the golf driving range with the assistance of family members for the 17 years, except for the 22-month period of December 30, 1949 to October 15, 1951 when Alfred Messinger had purchased the property from De Mane, before selling it back to De Mane.. Above: December 19, 1940 flyover survey #1940-099-2-064 by Aero Service Corp. from the Historical Aerial Photograph Collection -- Westchester County GIS, showing: (1) Nicholas De Mane's 10.195-acre Ridge Range golf driving range at southwest corner of Ridge Street & Bowman Avenue; and (2) adjacent 4.509-acre parcel between the two merging Blind Brook branches. De Mane acquired both parcels in June 1940 from Estate of Edgar F. Price. Below: April 19, 1954 flyover survey #1954_800-049 by Photogrammetic Engineers, Inc. from the Historical Aerial Photograph Collection -- Westchester County GIS, showing Nicholas De Mane’s Ridge Range golf driving range ... and activity at 4.509-acre, quarry site at westside of Bowman Avenue, sold in November 1948 by Gertrude De Mane to Barber & Coccola, Inc.. Note the size of upper pond behind the Bowman Avenue Dam on site owned by City of Rye in below 1954 photo ... as compared to narrow Blind Brook channel in above December 1940 photo. 240 June 28, 1940, page 14, advertisement in The Daily Item newspaper (top) and business card image (bottom) from DeManeGolf.com website, relating to the golf driving range operated for by Nicholas De Mane at the southwest corner of Ridge Street and Bowman Avenue for 17 years from 1940 to 1958, except for 22 months in 1950-1951 when Alfred Messinger purchased the site before selling it back to De Mane. 241 Rye Ridge Shopping Center (1960) Local developers John C. Merritt and Warren B. Holby of Merritt & Holby, through their Hillandale Construction Corporation entity, acquired ~12.35 acres at the southwest corner of Ridge Street and Bowman Avenue from Nicholas and Gertrude De Mane of 34 Rockinghorse Trail, for development of the Rye Ridge Shopping Center that opened on November 15, 1961. The ~12.3 acres was the northern ~2.15-acre portion of the 1924 Chester Terrace subdivision plus 10.195-acres of the former Thomas Lyon Farm (1850-1920) that was then part of Edgar F. Price’s 256-acre farm (1920-1940) at the southwest corner of Ridge Street and Bowman Avenue, which had most recently been the Ridge Range golf driving range from 1940 to 1958. Merritt & Holby had just developed the 1953 Burdsall Estates subdivision (89 lots on 26 acres within Port Chester NY and Greenwich CT) and the 1956 Tower Hill subdivision (109 lots in Port Chester) ... both being residential subdivisions located at eastside of King Street, north and south of the Betsy Brown Road intersection. November 1960 flyover survey #389-217 by American Air Surveys, Inc. from the Historical Aerial Photograph Collection -- Westchester County GIS that shows the Rye Ridge Shopping Center initial site work and adjacent Barber & Coccola, Inc. 4.509-acre, quarry site . The newly constructed Cross Westchester Expressway (I-287) that severed the 1924 Chester Terrace subdivision, opened to traffic in mid-December 1960 with 12/28/60 ribbon cutting by Governor Nelson Rockefeller in White Plains. 242 Map of Rye Ridge Shopping Center, Town of Rye, NY, prepared by surveyor Russell Munson and filed August 16, 1960, as Map 12511 with the Westchester County Clerk’s Office on behalf of developers John C. Merritt and Warren B. Holby. Initial retail tenants included: (A) County Trust drive-in bank ... Debonaire Cleaners ... Rye Ridge Launderette; (FN) Finast supermarket [First National Stores]; (B) Rebhan bake shop ... Gristede’s food market ... Big Top stationers ... Finch’s drugstore ... Ridge Barber Shop (Dino Coletti) ... Surrey restaurant ; (C) Montgomery Ward catalogue store; (D) Perri Hairdressers; (W) F.W. Woolworth five-and-dime store; (E) ____; and (F) Rye Ridge Theater opened at Bowman Avenue corner building on February 26, 1964. 243 June 1, 2023, Town of Rye tax map no. 141.027, maintained by CAI Technologies for the Town of Rye Assessment Office, showing the three (3) lots comprising: (a) the L-shaped, Rye Ridge Shopping Center on ~9.01 acres that opened in November 1961; (b) the Rye Ridge Professional Office Building on ~3.34 acres, later known as the Rye Ridge Plaza building was built in 1965 for professional and medical office uses, and expanded over the years, with conversions to additional retail uses; and (c) the 200 South Ridge Street structure that opened in 1994 with eight retail stores facing Ridge Street plus space at the rear, lower level of the building for offices and other retail), on the ~2.43-acre lot that was the site of the Ridge Bowl bowling alley from November 1956 until its closing in April 1992. 244 The Daily Item December 7, 1961 ad (above) for Santa arriving Saturday, December 9, 1961 at the 3-week old, Rye Ridge Shopping Center in a helicopter; and the December 11, 1961 photos (above right & below) of the event. 245 Mrs. Rosalie Osborn ... Brooklyn to Portugal to Bowman Avenue As her April 16, 1858, deed reveals, Mrs. Rosalie Osborn, “widow of the late Robert Osborn of the City of Brooklyn ... NY” purchased from prominent Town of Rye residents and landowners Samuel Ketchum Satterlee (1818-1905) and his wife, Mary Pamela Brown Satterlee (1826-1912), a 5.5-acre parcel for $4,000 at the southeast corner of “Hog Pen Ridge Road” (Ridge Street) and the “road leading from Sawpitt to Harrison” (later known as Old White Plains Road ... and re-named as Bowman Avenue in July 1923). Rosalie and her eight children lived in a large house at the corner ... where TD Bank (101 South Ridge Street) and Miller’s Cleaners (107 South Ridge Street) are in 2026. The aforementioned Mary & Samuel K. Satterlee lived a mile north on Ridge Street, at Hog Pen Ridge, on the former 94.664-acre, Judge Nehemiah Brown homestead, which dates back to 1680 and a ~115-acre tract, as reported in The Port Chester Journal newspaper on May 26, 1904 ... land that is now Crawford Park, and the Elm Hill, Pine Ridge, Red Roof Farm and Roselyn Park subdivisions. Both Mary and her father, Westchester County Judge Brown, grew up there. Sold in 1904 and 1905 by widow Mary P. Brown Satterlee, this is now the 36.707-acre Crawford Park, the 24.6-acre Talcott Woods subdivision, the 22-acre Elm Hill farm and 11.357 acres of the John I. Downey estate that became southerly portions of the Elm Hill and Pine Ridge subdivisions in 1954-1958. 48 years later to the day from her April 16, 1858 purchase, Mrs. Rosalie Minns Osborn (1822-1913), carved out three, side-by-side lots, each averaging ~0.46-acre (~71.5’ wide x ~280.2’ deep) at the center of her 5.5-acre, Old White Plains Road (Bowman Avenue) tract, which she conveyed under separate April 16, 1906 deeds to her three unmarried daughters: one daughter, also named Rosalie (1851-1935), Jessie (1853-1941) and Kate L. (1848-1950). Architecturally similar dwellings were built on the lots at 62 Bowman Avenue (daughter Kate L. Osborn aka Miss Kitty parcel) and 66 Bowman (daughter Rosalie Osborn’s parcel), with a shared driveway in between the two homes. Excerpt of 1910 G.W. Bromley atlas, Plate 36 shows the 5.5-acre tract that Mrs. Rosalie Osborn acquired in April 1858. When the Village of Port Chester incorporated a decade later in 1868, its western boundary ran through her land. She lived in the large house at the southeast corner of Ridge Street & Bowman Avenue with her eight children. After deeding three center lots (shown above) to her daughters Jessie, Rosalie and Kate L. aka Miss Kitty in 1905, houses were built by Miss Rosalie in ___ at 66 Bowman Avenue and by Miss Kitty at 62 Bowman Avenue in 1914. 246 1925 flyover survey #12841-248 by Underwood & Underwood from the Historical Aerial Photograph Collection -- Westchester County GIS that shows Ridge Street curving north from Purchase Street in Rye, past: (a) St. Mary’s Cemetery from High Street to Wyman Street; (b) the 39-acre Minuse Farm [1867-1899], intact for re-development as the 1924 Chester Terrace subdivision; (c) 4.509-acres of former 40-acre John A. Park family farm with Park’s Mill operation at the Bowman Avenue Dam; (d) 10.2-acre and 47.4-acre Bowman Avenue parcels of former Thomas Lyon Farm sold in 1920 to Edgar F. Price; (e) 5.5-acre estate that widow Mrs. Rosalie Osborn acquired in 1858 at Ridge Street/Bowman Avenue southeast corner, transitioning for re-development by developer David J. Albrecht’s 13-lot, 1926 Osborn Park on 1 acre and in September 1928 as B.C.K. Realty Corporation’s 15-lot subdivision, including the large house at Ridge Street corner where widow Osborn raised her eight children ... leaving the ~71’ wide x 282’ deep lots at 62 & 66 Bowman Avenue with shared driveway to remain as the residences of the 3 elderly, unmarried Osborn daughters; (f) Westchester Avenue laid out in 1868 as Westchester Path, running east from top right of photo, past Ridge Street and then curving at intersection with Bowman Avenue opposite the 1-acre eastern portion of Mrs. Osborn’s estate 247 Osborn Park (1926) On July 16, 1925, local developer David J. Albrecht, purchased the eastern 0.95-acre portion of the former 5.5.-acre Bowman Avenue estate of the heirs of the late Mrs. Rosalie Osborn, six of her eight children: three married sons (Charles R. Osborn, Alfred F. Osborn & Robert Osborn) and three unmarried daughters, then in their seventies and affectionately known as Miss Rosalie, Miss Jessie and Miss Kitty [Kate L.], living together at the center of the estate in a house built in 1914 on a ~0.47-acre lot at 62 Bowman Avenue, created by their mother Mrs. Rosalie Osborn, when she conveyed ~71.2’ x 255’ lots under three (3) April 16, 1905 deeds. Map of Osborn Park, in the Town of Rye, NY, prepared by surveyor J.A. Kirby Co. and filed July 9, 1926, in Volume 62 at Page 17 with the Westchester County Register’s Office (now known as the County Clerk). 1923 was the year when Old White Plains Road was re-named Bowman Avenue and land takings commenced to widen the roadway to its present width and introduce sidewalks. This 13-lot subdivision includes what became homes at 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 Osborn Place (named after the Mrs. Rosalie Osborn family who owned land at the south side of Old White Plains Road (Bowman Avenue) between Ridge Street and the current one-story, Biltmore Shopping Center strip of retail stores at corner where Bowman Avenue intersects with Westchester Avenue at Merritt Street. 248 FUN FACT: In 1940, the developer of the above Osborn Park at Bowman Avenue, David J. Albrecht, built a 2- story, white, Colonial, house at 41 Hillandale Road in the 1906 Byram Ridge subdivision and resided there for eight years until his family relocated down the street to a one-story ranch house he built in 1948 at 27 Hillandale Road. As of 2026, the 27 Hillandale Road ranch home David J. Albrecht built in 1948 is still in the family and was altered in 2014 to transform the one-story ranch into an expanded 2-story home. Regina and David Albrecht’s Colonial home at 41 Hillandale Road from 1940-1948 was demolished in 2006 at 66 years of age, when the property’s third owner replaced it with a much larger, modern stucco house on the 1.23-acre parcel. This author lived next door at 39 Hillandale Road from 1998-2012, in a 4,300 sf, 1931 center-hall Colonial with 5BR, 3.5 bath, and 3 fireplaces on 1.79 acres, until its 6th owner demolished the 82-year-old, grand dame in 2013, in favor of a new 2015 house, three times its size at ~13,000 sf. Photos of these three Hillandale Road homes, built in 1931, 1940 and 1948, respectively, are shown below, prior to the demolition of the older two houses at 39 and 41 Hillandale Road in 2013 and 2006, respectively Photo of 39 Hillandale Road home (owned by this author in 1998-2012), from cover of the 2011 Julia B. Fee/ Sotheby’s sale brochure. Built in 1931 by Dr. Herbert F. Wilshusen, where he and wife Mildred lived until December 1944. FUN FACT: After selling 39 Hillandale Road and adjacent vacant lot at 37 Hillandale Road (a combined 3.5 acres) to Sidney Harris in 1944, Dr. Herbert Wilshusen later sold the vacant lot at 27 Hillandale Road in July 1948 to Regina & David Albrecht, which Dr. Wilshusen had acquired a decade earlier in April 1938 via a mortgage loan that he had foreclosed on. 249 Above: 41 Hillandale Road, built 1940 on 1.23 acres and Below: 27 Hillandale Road, built 1948 on 0.62-acre, are the Hillandale Road homes that local developer (e.g. Osborn Park at Bowman Avenue) Daniel J. Albrecht built in the 1940s for his own residence, as they appear in March 10, 2003 Town of Rye Assessment Office photos at the Rye Town Assessor’s website under the SDG Imagemate Online software. 250 B-C-K Realty Corporation (1929) Subdivision Map of Property Belonging To B-C-K Realty Corporation in the Town of Rye, NY, prepared by surveyor John A. Ehler and filed September 11, 1929, in Volume 71 at Page 36 with the Westchester County Register’s Office (now known as the County Clerk). The 2-story house at Ridge Street on proposed subdivision Lot 2, is the house that widow, Mrs. Robert (nèe Rosalie Minns) Osborn lived in from 1858 onward with her children. 251 Above: Excerpt of 1929 G.M. Hopkins atlas, Plate 39, shows Old White Plains Road (re-named as Bowman Avenue in 1923) and parcels of Mrs. Rosalie Osborn conveyed in: (a) 1905 for the 62 & 66 Bowman Avenue residences of daughters Kate and Rosalie; (b) 1926 for 13-lot Osborn Park subdivision with T-shaped Osborn Place; and (c) 1929 for 15-lot B.C.K. Realty Corporation subdivision with Barber Place, which was subsequently connected to Franklin Street, when Lot 4 of adjacent 1886 R.F. Brundage/1887 Robert Hume subdivision was not built, but instead added to the Barber Place roadway. Below Left: 2009 Town of Rye, Assessment Office photo under SDG Imagemate Online software of 62 Bowman Avenue (left) and 66 Bowman Avenue (right), with a shared driveway. Below Right: Excerpt of 1925 flyover survey #12841-248 by Underwood & Underwood from the Historical Aerial Photograph Collection -- Westchester County GIS, showing 5.5-acre Osborn tract along Bowman Avenue, including Ridge Street corner house, 62 & 66 Bowman Avenue with shared white driveway, double-loop layout at rear yards. 252 The July 16, 1940, The Daily Item newspaper had an article ‘Miss Kitty’ Osborn Approaches 93 With A Twinkle In Her Eye (see below), published the day after one of Mrs. Rosalie Osborn’s daughters, Kate L. Osborn (1848-1950, known as “Miss Kitty,” celebrated her 92nd birthday. The article offers a snapshot of the experiences of the Osborn family, living in the rural Town of Rye since 1858, when they were surrounded by farmland such as the vast Thomas Lyon Farm, that passed from Samuel Lyon to his son, farmer Thomas “Tommy” Lyon (1792-1873) in 1850, and then upon Thomas Lyon’s death in 1873, to his daughter Mary Willis Lyon Purdy, and her husband Thomas Hart Purdy II, the founder of Purdy’s Station in the Town of North Salem. July 16, 1940 (page 7) article in The Daily Item (Port Chester) newspaper, published the day after Kate L. Osborn (1848-1950) of 62 Bowman Avenue, known as “Miss Kitty,” celebrated her 92nd birthday. 253 Above: Obituaries for the three, never-married, Osborn sisters ... longtime residents of Bowman Avenue, as published in The Daily Item newspaper dated: November 8, 1935 (left); January 16, 1941 (middle); and June 13, 1950 (right). The sisters: Rosalie Osborn (1851-1935), Jessie Osborn (1846-1941) and Kate L. Osborn aka Miss Kitty (1848- 1950, moved to the Ridge Street/Bowman Avenue estate in 1858 with five other siblings and their widowed mother, Mrs. Robert (Rosalie Minns) Osborn ... living there most of their 84, 87 and one month shy of 102 years, respectively. Below: Monday, July 18, 1938, The Daily Item article’s staff photo of Miss Jessie Osborn, 85 (left), and her sister, Miss Kitty (Kate L.) Osborn, who turned 90 on Friday, July 15, 1938, as they celebrated at Saturday party at their 62 Bowman Avenue home attended by fifty relatives, friends and Daily Item reporter. As explained in the 7/18/1935 article, of the eight Osborn children (5 sons & 3 daughters), 4 were born in Brooklyn, NY and 4 were born in Oporto, Portugal where parents Rosalie Minns Osborn (1822-1913) and Robert Osborn (1811-1857) “commuted” between Brooklyn and Oporto, Portugal for Robert’s wine importing business. Born in Oporto, Portugal: Miss Jessie (1846); Miss Kitty (1848); and brothers Alfred Frederick (__) and Henry (___). Born in Brooklyn, NY: sister Rosalie (1851) and brothers, Robert (___), Duncan Pell (1842-1915) and Charles Redpath Osborn (1843). 254 Rye Ridge Apartments (1963) ... converted to Rye Ridge Condominium (1975) Above: Map Showing Private Road Belonging to Rye Ridge Apartments ... Town of Rye, NY, filed August 9, 1963, as Map 13764; and Below: Condominium Map of Rye Ridge Condominium, Prepared for The Baker-Firestone Corporation, Town of Rye, NY, filed January 6, 1975 as Map No. 18426 ... both filed with the Westchester County Clerk’s Office. Eleven (11), 2-story buildings along the Avon Circle private roadway at the northwest corner of Ridge Street and Westchester Avenue, containing 168 garden apartments, converted from rentals to condominiums in 1975. 255 Brookridge (1988) The 1988 Brookridge subdivision of 46 attached townhouses, clustered into thirteen (13) buildings by developer Rye Brook Associates (Frank Mercede, Jr.) of Stamford CT on the 4.8-acre site of Lundell’s Florist that was purchased for $2,060,000 on December 31, 1986. Lundell’s Florist with their greenhouses, spanned 3 generations and 65 years, from 1921 -1986. Carl Gustav Lundell and his wife Matilda purchased the initial 2.66-acres across Ridge Street from St. Mary’s Cemetery, from another florist, Emil Leonhard in September 1921. As depicted below, it was a rectangular parcel with 156 feet of frontage at South Ridge Street and an average depth of ~763 feet and 147 feet of frontage at the Blind Brook). 3½ years later in March 1925, Lundell expanded by acquiring lots 19-23 in Block D of the adjacent Chester Terrace subdivision. Above: Excerpt of 1910 G.W. Bromley atlas Plate 37, showing the 2.66-acre parcel of florist Emil Leonhard, acquired in September 1921 by fellow florist, Carl Lundell. Below: Excerpt of Map of Chester Terrace, Property of Dixon W. Kitchen in the Town of Rye, NY, prepared by surveyor J.A. Kirby Co. and filed August 5, 1924, as Map 2650 with the Westchester County Register’s Office (now known as the County Clerk) showing lots 19-22 (now 300 S. Ridge Street) & lot 23 in Block D, acquired by Matilda & Carl Lundell in March 1925 from Chester Terrace developer, Irving Austin 256 Above: Subdivision Map of Brookridge, Village of Rye Brook, NY, prepared by surveyors Chas. H. Sells, Inc. and filed March 21, 1988, as Map 23154 with Westchester County Clerk’s Office. 46 units of single-family, attached housing in 13 buildings. Below: Amended Subdivision Map of Brookridge, Village of Rye Brook, NY, prepared by surveyors Chas.H. Sells, Inc. and filed 14 months later on May 15, 1989, as Map 23701 with Westchester County Clerk’s Office. Same 46 units of single-family, attached housing in 13 buildings, but unit numbers have been added on plat map.