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HomeMy WebLinkAbout10 Subdivisions pg 292-318 Pine Ridge, Elm Hill, Brookside, Roselyn Park, Talcott, Westerleigh, Red Roof 2026-06-01 ... 1004AM 292 Chapter 10: Pine Ridge, Elm Hill, Brookside, Roselyn Park, Talcott Woods, Westerleigh Court, Red Roof Farm As of 1929, the five large estates of Sophie & George C. Clausen's homestead (1899-1946) later known as Red Roof Farm (22.5 acres), Katherine & Dunlevy & Milbank’s Ridgelands estate (66.3-acres ... less the 8 acres acquired via eminent domain in 1932 for Westchester County's extension of the Hutchinson River Parkway to meet Connecticut’s Merritt Parkway, leaving 58.3 acres), the John I. Downey estate (51.243 acres), James Talcott's Bramble Hill estate (24.75 acres) and Katherine & Edwin M. Allen's Elm Hill Farm (22 acres) ... aggregated 184.793 acres of land ... bounded to the south by the Edna & Everett Crawford estate (bequeathed to the Town of Rye as Crawford Park in 1973), to the west by Lincoln Avenue, to the north by the 112.1-acre Merritt Farm (until re-developed in 1950-1953 as the 67.5-acre Rye Acres subdivision ... the Winding Wood Road area) ... and to the east by Ridge Street. Today in 2026, there are 390 homes on these 184.55 acres ... when as of 1954-55, there were still only the five country estates of Milbank, Clausen, Downey, Allen and Talcott on the same land. Between 1956 and the mid-1960s, three (3) developers subdivided the Allen, Downey and Milbank estates aggregating 131.3 acres and built 269 new homes across: (i) two sections of Elm Hill; (ii) six sections of Pine Ridge; (iii) two sections of Roselyn Park [between former Milbank red brick mansion at 17 Berkley Drive and Ridge Street]; and (iv) the 1962 Brookside subdivision by the Pine Ridge developers George Newman and Meyer Zuckerman as six (6) lots at the westerly end of the Dunlevy Milbank estate at Lincoln Avenue abutting the Blind Brook with five of the six lots fronting onto the Brookside Way cul-de-sac, with Lot 6 at 109 Lincoln Avenue, opposite Westerleigh Road. Excerpt of 1929 G.M. Hopkins atlas, Plate 42, showing the following five estates converted into 390 homes between 1955-2024 on 184.793 acres: Katherine & Dunlevy Milbank at Ridge Street with Lincoln Avenue frontage too; Sophie & George C. Clausen at Ridge Street; Sarah & John I. Downey [all but ~4 acres having formerly been lands of Abraham Slater and heirs] with Ridge Street main entrance plus Lincoln Avenue frontage; Katherine & Edwin M. Allen’s Elm Hill Farm at Ridge Street; and James Talcott’s Bramble Hill at Lincoln Avenue. 293 1929 G.M. Hopkins atlas, Plate 42 in its entirety, which can be found as resource map online at the Westchester County Clerk’s land records website or in bound atlases of the Philadelphia, PA publisher. NOTE: Framed originals in full color of this G.M. Hopkins atlas Plate 42 as of both 1929 and 1942 updates, along with Plate 44, were donated by Dean P. Santon to the BBRUFSD in April 2024 for display on the walls of its district offices at BMPRSS. 294 1925 flyover survey #12841-268 by Underwood & Underwood from the Historical Aerial Photograph Collection -- Westchester County, shows the Ridge Street estates & farms: (L to R) part of Edgar Price’s vast Knollwood Farm bounded by Ridge Street/Westchester Avenue/ Lincoln Avenue; 36.7-acre Everett & Edna Crawford estate [now Crawford Park] extending to Lincoln Avenue; 22-acre Elm Hill Farm; 24.5-acre Lincoln Avenue vacant tract purchased by James Talcott in October 1926 [now Talcott Woods}; 51.243-acre John I. Downey estate extending to Lincoln Avenue; 22.483-acre homestead of George C. Clausen & Sophie Yuengling Clausen homestead; 66.3-acre Ridgelands estate of Katherine & Dunlevy Milbank extending to Lincoln Avenue; and part of the 112-acre Merritt Farm (siblings Daniel & Emma) at Ridge Street. 295 Excerpt of the 1925 flyover survey #12841-268 by Underwood & Underwood from the Historical Aerial Photograph Collection -- Westchester County, to zoom in on the Ridge Street/ Lincoln Avenue estates & farms: (top to bottom): (A) Part of the 112-acre Merritt Farm (siblings Daniel & Emma); (B) 66-acre Ridgelands estate of Katherine & Dunlevy Milbank extending to Lincoln Avenue; (C) 22.483-acre homestead of George C. Clausen & Sophie Yuengling Clausen that became Red Roof Farm; (D) 51.243-acre John I. Downey estate extending to Lincoln Avenue; (E) 22-acre Elm Hill Farm at Ridge Street (right) ... 24.5-acre Lincoln Avenue vacant tract purchased by James Talcott in October 1926 [now Talcott Woods to the left]; (F) 36.7-acre Everett & Edna Crawford estate [now Crawford Park] extending to Lincoln Avenue; (G) Part of Edgar Price’s Knollwood Farm, with Ridge Street driveway to the mansion (now Rye Hills Park); 296 Elm Hill subdivision (1955-1957) S. Pierre Bonan and Martin W. Witte, Greenwich, CT residents and Manhattan-based developers, purchased the 22-acre, Elm Hill Farm on July 9, 1954, from the Estate of Katherine L. Allen and the 51.243-acre John I. Downey estate on February 2, 1955, aggregating 73 acres stretching west from Ridge Street to Lincoln Avenue. Bonan and Witte and their Elm Hill, Inc. entity only developed ~37% or 60 out of the 163 vacant lots shown in their circa-1955 marketing brochure’s site plan (shown below) within the ~73- acre Allen/ Downey tract for their Elm Hill subdivision, filed in 1955 and 1956 as two sections. Page 5 of the 1955 El Hill subdivision marketing brochure, with: site plan of proposed 163 new building lots; five lots with existing Elm Hill Farm (Allen) and Downey estate structures ... and two park parcels. As denoted by the ORANGE line mark-up, Elm Hill, Inc. only developed the 60 lots east of the line as shown in filed Elm Hill, Sections One and Two subdivision plats, All land (103 lots) west of the ORANGE line was sold by Elm Hill, Inc. to another developer, Lincoln-Rye Development Corp. for their Pine Ridge, Sections One, Two and Three, as shown on filed Pine Ridge subdivision plats with different lot and road configurations. In addition to the 60 vacant lots where Elm Hill, Inc. built new homes in 1955-1957, the developers sold off five (5) lots containing the existing Elm Hill Farm (Allen) / Downey estate structures to new residents, including: (a) the John I. Downey mansion at 11 Old Oak Road and barn/staff quarters at 5 Bonwit Road. (b) the Elm Hill Farm (Allen) mansion at 2 Elm Hill Drive, and farmhouses at 11 and 14 Elm Hill, which are depicted as parcels owned by “Gill” and “Klein” on filed Pine Ridge, Section Three subdivision map (see below on page 306). 297 The 1.5-acre vacant lot “reserved for park purposes” shown on the Elm Hill, Section Two map , known as Elm Hill Park, located behind 10 and 12 Elm Hill Drive, abutting Crawford Park (with 15’ wide strip for pedestrian access, between 6 Horseshoe Lane and 10 Elm Hill Drive), was deeded by Elm Hill, Inc, to the Town of Rye on March 3, 1958, which the Village of Rye Brook succeeded in taking ownership of after its July 1982 formation. The Elm Hill, Inc. entity flipped (sold off) the westerly two-thirds of their 73.243-acre Elm Hill Farm/ John I. Downey tract to Pine Ridge developers: Meyer Zuckerman and George Newman of Lincoln-Rye Development) Corp., on July 24, 1956, for their own development as the 105 houses they built in Pine Ridge subdivision Sections One, Two and Three. Page 2 from the 1955 Elm Hill subdivision brochure with aerial photo looking west from Ridge Street, plus photos of the John I. Downey mansion at 11 Old Oak Road and Elm Hill Farm (Allen) mansion at 2 Elm Hill Road. The two smaller Elm Hill Farm farmhouses at 11 Elm Hill Drive and 14 Elm Hill Drive are still in use as residences in 2024. So is the former John I. Downey mansion at 11 Old Oak Road with views of Long Island Sound in the distance. 298 The former John I. Downey converted barn/ staff quarters at 5 Bonwit Road was re-purposed as a single-family residence for 58 years from July 1957 until demolished in October 2015, and replaced by a new house in 2016. RSS students John & Susan Badenhausen lived in that converted barn at 5 Bonwit Road from July 1957 to summer of 1964 when they moved to Rye. Simon Troller of the RSS Class of 1971 started 3rd grade at RSS in September 1964, with his family as the new residents of the 5 Bonwit Road converted barn/farmhouse. The Elm Hill Farm mansion was positioned by the Elm Hill developers at 2 Elm Hill Drive on 1.6 acres of the 22- acre farm, which had the following three families live there over 67 years from 1957 to 2022: Bertha & LeRoy Patchen (1955-1972); the Awanda & Stanley Carp family (1972-1982) and Harriet & Stanley Rothman family (1982- 2022) ... until sold in 2022 and demolished in January 2023 for a 3-lot subdivision with the three new homes built in 2023-2024 with street addresses of 4 Elm Hill Drive, 6 Elm Hill Drive and 345 Betsy Brown Road. Southerly façade of the mansion (now at 11 Old Oak Road) for the 51.243-acre, John I. Downey estate from page 81 of the 1917 Views of Rye book, self-published by prominent Rye realtor, Blakeman Quintard Meyer (1882- 1952). Meyer, B. Q. (Blakeman Quintard). Views of Rye / [Blakeman Quintard Meyer]. [New York]: B. Q. Meyer, 1917. The book is available in the Library of Congress online at: https://www.loc.gov/item/18001579/ 299 From Judge Nehemiah Brown family’s Colonial era homestead ... to Sophie & George C. Clausen (1905-1922) ... Marian Barker (1922-23) ... Elm Hill Farm (1923-1954) and beyond Ridge Street homestead of the late Judge Nehemiah Brown as occupied since his 1855 death by daughter Mary P. Brown Satterlee and her husband Samuel K. Satterlee. Illustration opposite page 703 of Scharf, J. Thomas. History of Westchester County, New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City ... Volume II. Philadelphia. L.E. Preston & Co. 1886. The Colonial-era Brown homestead included over 100 acres that became the estates of Edna & Everett Crawford, Katherine & Edwin Allen’s Elm Hill Farm, John Downey and Sophie & George Clausen. The above dwelling was one of two large dwellings on the tract that became the 22.5-acre Clausen Homestead. Itala Bianchi Schwarzenbach (wife of Alfred Friedrich Schwarzenbach) owned the tract in 1946-1956 and built a new $97,000 dwelling in 1949 to replace the old homestead structure, before she sold the property to Sol Kittay in June 1956 for his Red Roof Farm (1956-1983). 300 Photos from abutting Ridge Street estates from the 1917 Views of Rye book, self-published by prominent Rye realtor, Blakeman Quintard Meyer (1882-1952).Meyer, B. Q. (Blakeman Quintard). Views of Rye / [Blakeman Quintard Meyer]. [New York]: B. Q. Meyer, 1917. The book is available in the Library of Congress online at: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00142243969 . Upper Left & Upper Right photos were two large dwellings on the 22-acre property that became Red Roof Farm. Below Left: the John I. Downey mansion that still stands at 11 Old Oak Road in 2026, with modifications over the years. Below Right: the Edna & Everett L. Crawford mansion that remains at 122 N. Ridge Street in 2026 within Crawford Park established in 1974 pursuant to the Last Will & Testament of Edna Phelps Gregory Crawford, who bequeathed 35.7 acres of the 36.7-acre estate to the Town of Rye for park purposes. 301 3-lot Subdivision of Elm Hill Farm mansion site at 2 Elm Hill Drive in 2023 Above: Subdivision Map Prepared for Alexander Zoldan, filed April 24, 2023 with the Westchester County Clerk’s Office as Map No. 29720 for the 3-lot subdivision of 1.6-acre, 2 Elm Hill Drive parcel with the Elm Hill Farm mansion, which parcel was lot 20A under the 1955 Elm Hill, Section One, Amended plat. Below: CAI AxisGIS tax mapping ( https://next.axisgis.com/Rye_TownNY/ ) mark-up, showing new lots with assigned addresses ... and the footprint of the Elm Hill Farm mansion at former 2 Elm Hill Drive parcel that was demolished in January 2023. 302 Elm Hill subdivision maps filed by developers Seon Pierre Bonan & Martin Witte with the Westchester County Clerk for Section One, Amended (above) filed November 10, 1955 as Map 10234 to supersede prior Section One Map 9938 filed June 2, 1955 by adding sewer easement at the John I. Downey mansion lot (11 Old Oak Road) and acreage notation at Elm Hill Farm [Edwin M. Allen] mansion lot (2 Elm Hill Drive) showing 40 lots including the two mansions and Section Two (below) filed February 14, 1956 as Map 10374, showing 22 vacant lots, plus the Downey estate’s barn lot at 5 Old Oak Road and the 1.5-acre Elm Hill Park. NOTE: Bonwit Road utilizes the first three letters the last names of developers Pierre Bonan & Martin Witte, as does their Bonwit Construction Company. 303 Pine Ridge subdivision (1957-1964) on portions of Downey, Allen and Milbank estates Developers Meyer Zuckerman & George Newman through their Lincoln-Rye Development Corp. entity, purchased part of the 22-acre, Elm Hill Farm and the 51.243-acre John I. Downey estate from Elm Hill developers Bonan and Witte on July 24, 1956, with frontage at Lincoln Avenue abutting the Blind Brook (the boundary shared with Harrison) ... plus the remaining 64.3-acre portion of 66.3-acre Dunlevy Milbank’s Ridgelands estate with main entrance driveway at Ridge Street (now the serpentine path of Berkley Drive) and frontage at Lincoln Avenue except for the 2.01 acres acquired by Westchester County in November 1932 for the Lincoln Avenue interchange and extension of the Hutchinson River Parkway. Zuckerman and Newman built 178 new homes in Pine Ridge Sections One through Six, sold off the circa-1915 Milbank mansion, garage/ barn and guest cottage (all red brick) as homes ... developed 5 of the 6 lots at Brookside abutting the Blind Brook ... and flipped the easterly portion of the Milbank estate to Fran Construction to build 24 new homes as the Roselyn Park subdivision in two sections. between the Milbank mansion at 17 Berkley Drive (BOCES offices since 1963) and Ridge Street, marked by the distinctive Milbank stone wall. Pine Ridge Section One subdivision plat filed by developers Meyer Zuckerman & George Newman with the Westchester County Clerk on April 8, 1957, as Map 10964 with 32 lots. NOTE: This author was the first occupant in late 1957 of the home on Lot 4 known as 1 Pine Ridge Road at the corner of Lincoln Avenue. The three (3) model homes were along Lincoln Avenue at: Lot 8 (39 Lincoln Avenue) with The Carlton; Lot 5 (45 Lincoln Avenue) with The Bristol; and Lot 3 (47 Lincoln Avenue) with The Avondale. 304 Half-page advertisement on page 21 of The Daily Item newspaper on December 14, 1956, announcing the Pine Ridge subdivision of Meyer Zuckerman and George Newman, Esq. The three (3) model homes were along Lincoln Avenue at: 39 Lincoln Avenue with The Carlton ... 45 Lincoln Avenue with The Bristol ... and Lot 47 Lincoln Avenue with The Avondale with single-car garage, which is the same model as my house under construction at 1 Pine Ridge Road, pictured below during July 1957 (my birth month). 305 Pine Ridge Section Two subdivision plat filed by developers Meyer Zuckerman & George Newman with the Westchester County Clerk filed November 15, 1957 as Map 11307 ... with another 32 lots plus the 2.15-acre initial portion of Pine Ridge Park. Another 2.85 acres of parkland would be added to Pine Ridge Park under the Pine Ridge, Section Five plat map in 1961. 306 Pine Ridge subdivision maps by developers Meyer Zuckerman & George Newman with the Westchester County Clerk for Section Three (above) filed June 26, 1957 as Map 111525 with 41 vacant lots plus the Elm Hill Farm farmhouse structures at 11 and 14 Elm Hill Drive and Section Four (below) filed November 24, 1959 as Map 12212 with 33 vacant lots ... and the two streets being named after Charles Yassky (RSS Class of 1967) and Mark Yassky (RSS Class of 1970), whose father, Harold Yassky, was part of the Pine Ridge development team. 307 Pine Ridge subdivision maps filed by developers Meyer Zuckerman & George Newman with the Westchester County Clerk for Section Five, Amended (above) filed July 9, 1962 as Map 13360 [supersedes Section Five filed February 27, 1961 as Map 12710] with 26 vacant lots, plus Milbank estate structures at Lots #52 and #70 and Lot #45 being the 2.85-acre northerly portion of Pine Ridge Park. NOTE: The red-brick converted stables at 8 Berkley Drive [Lot #70] has been used as a 2-family residence since the Milbank estate was sold in 1959 for re-development as Pine Ridge subdivision Sections Four, Five and Six and the Roselyn Park subdivision Sections One and Two. The former Milbank cottage at 5 Winthrop Drive (Lot #52) had additions erected in 1975 and 1985. Section Six (below) filed November 24, 1959 as Map 13359 with 12 vacant lots plus the 2.098-acre, Lot #59 being the circa-1915, red brick mansion at 17 Berkley Drive from the 66.3-acre, Dunlevy Milbank estate Ridgelands that has been the BOCES Southern Westchester offices since 1963. 308 Roselyn Park (1962-1963) Above: Roselyn Park, Section One, filed October 8, 1962 as Map 13464 with the Westchester County Clerk’s Office, consisting of Lots 6-12 and 14-21 (15 lots). Below: Roselyn Park, Section Two, filed April 10, 1963, as Map 13677, consisting of Lots 1-5 and 22-25 (9 lots). Developer: Fran Construction, Inc. (Irving Greenstein, President) 309 Brookside (1962) Brookside filed June 12, 1962, as Map 13337 by Pine Ridge developers Meyer Zuckerman & George Newman with the Westchester County Clerk. Lots 1-5 and half of Lot 6 (now 109-3 Lincoln Avenue) are at the westerly end of the former 66-acre Dunlevy Milbank estate with the southerly half of Lot 6 (now 109-1, 109-2 and 109-2 Lincoln Avenue) being part of the former 51.243-acre John I. Downey estate. Excerpt of November 1960 flyover survey #1960_389_219 by American Air Surveys, Inc. from the Historical Aerial Photograph Collection -- Westchester County GIS via the Westchester County Department of Planning website, showing: HRP interchange at Lincoln Avenue (photo upper left) with views to the southeast of: Pine Ridge, Section 4 construction underway; the completed Pine Ridge Sections 1-3 and Elm Hill Sections 1-2; the undeveloped balance of Dunlevy Milbank’s 64-acre, Ridgelands estate sold in 1959 (another 2 acres was condemned by the County in 1933 for HRP interchange at Lincoln Avenue); Sol Kittay’s 22.5-acre Red Roof Farm; James Talcott’s 24.5-acre Bramble Hill; and adjacent 36.7-acre Edna Crawford estate, which became Crawford Park in 1974, following her 1973 death. 310 It took two (2) decades for Lot 6 of the 1962 Brookside subdivision to get built. It was re-subdivided twice (see below) ... and was finally built after 1984 by developer Sanford J. Magid. The 2.58-acre, Lot 6 was on a steep hillside backing up to Pine Ridge, Section One homes at the Mohegan Lane cul-de-sac and overlooking the Blind Brook. It also had limited Lincoln Avenue frontage, across from the Westerleigh Road intersection. Resubdivision of Lot 6 of Brookside into 4 lots, filed August 8, 1975 as Map 18570 (above) by Brookside Land Corp. (Victor and Carl Borsari ... the original residents of the 8 Berkley Drive former Milbank red-brick, garage/ stables converted into a 2-family residence in 1959 after the sale of the Milbank estate to developers Meyer Zuckerman and George Newman) ... and Resubdivision of Lots 3 & 4 of Brookside Lot 6 map filed December 14, 1984 as Map 21791 (below) by developer Sanford J. Magid, reducing to a 3-lot subdivision. Both maps on file with the Westchester County Clerk. Lots “A”, “B”, and “C” are now known as 109-1, 109-2 and 109-3 Lincoln Avenue, respectively. 311 Talcott Woods (1976) Starting in July 1975, developer Robert A. Freeman, the father of our classmate, John Freeman of the RSS Class of 1972 and Mamaroneck High School ("MHS") Class of 1975, and his Cawley Capital Ltd., developed the 68-unit Talcott Woods subdivision on the former 24.75-acre, Talcott property with frontage at both Lincoln Avenue & the beginning of Mohegan Lane, just south of Bonwit Road. Fun Fact: Another of our RSS Class of 1972/ MHS Class of 1975 classmates, Angelo Ortelli, and his family resided with Mary & James Talcott during our 1962-1972 (K-9) tenure at RSS and our 1972-1975 (grades 10-12) years at Mamaroneck High School. I have many fond memories of playing in those woods about 500 feet from my childhood home at the corner of Pine Ridge Road and Lincoln Avenue ... except when I and two Pine Ridge girls (all of us under age 10) literally stepped on a ground level hornet’s nest, burrowed in the thick brush of Talcott’s aptly named Bramble Hill estate in the mid-1960s. We ran home screaming as we were getting repeatedly stung by the hornets that got underneath our clothes. Classic! Talcott Woods subdivision plat filed October 15, 1976, with the Westchester County Clerk’s Office as Map No. 18972 for 68 townhouses in a densely wooded, 24.75-acre Conservation Subdivision adjacent to a Blind Brook tributary. 312 Westerleigh Court (1986) Westerleigh Court subdivision plat of Westerleigh Development Corp. (E. Vincent Iorio, President), filed September 4, 1986, with the Westchester County Clerk’s Office as Map No. 22427 for five (5) single-family lots at Westerleigh Road/ Lincoln Avenue corner adjacent to the Blind Brook. 313 Red Roof Farm (1998) Itala Bianchi Schwarzenbach purchased the 22.483-acre Clausen homestead in June 1946 from George Clausen’s widow, Sophie Y. Clausen. Schwarzenbach built a $97,000 dwelling in 1949 to replace the former Clausen/ Brown homestead, and sold the property in June 1956 to Sol Kittay (the apparel executive who acquired the B.V.D. underwear company in 1951, which BVD® brand was acquired by Fruit of the Loom, Inc. in 1976). Under Kittay, the property became known as Red Roof Farm. Sol Kittay died in 1982, and his widow Freida Kittay sold the property in 1983 to real estate investors. 15 years later in 1998, the Red Roof Farm subdivision was advanced for 40 new homes, while adding 2.291 acres of donated parkland (standard 10% planning approval concession) to expand Rye Brook’s 5-acre Pine Ridge Park campus to 7.291 acres with the addition of the Red Roof Farm baseball field. Those of us who grew up during the 1960s & 1970s, will fondly recall playing tennis, basketball and baseball in Pine Ridge Park, while Sol Kittay’s flock of sheep grazed and bleated in the meadow (now the Red Roof Ballfield) abutting the park’s tennis courts. The sheep were housed in a concrete building where the 3 Birch Lane house is now. Above Left: Subdivision Plat, Red Roof Farm prepared by Kenneth B. Salzman, LLS, filed November 25, 1998 as Map No. 26266 with the Westchester County Clerk’s Office. Below Left & Center: Red Roof Farm cast iron sign (black with red flower accent) from the former estate’s Ridge Street entrance, is now mounted on a tall post near the Red Roof baseball field. It was retrieved before demolition in 1998 by my RSS Class of 1972 classmate Kip Konigsberg, in the mid-1990s when he was attorney for the owners at that time. Kip gave it to me in 1998, and I passed it on to the Village of Rye Brook in 2012 to install at the Red Roof Farm parkland. Below Right: June 12, 1982, The Daily Item obituary for Sol Kittay, the garment center executive who owned BVD® underwear in 1951-1966, and March 20, 1972 The Daily Item article about nine sheep killed in the meadow & barn at Red Roof Farm. 314 51-acre John I. Downey estate ........ 22-acre Elm Hill Farm (Katherine & Edwin Allen) .....1954 Red Roof Farm Excerpt of 1929 G.M. Hopkins atlas, Plate 42 surrounded by 4 photos from 1917 Views of Rye self-published book by Rye realtor Blakeman Quintard Meyer; 1955 Elm Hill sales marketing brochure photo; and excerpt of April 19, 1954 flyover survey #1954_800_049 by Photogrammetic Engineers, Inc. from the Historical Aerial Photograph Collection -- Westchester County GIS via the Westchester County Department of Planning website showing Itala Schwarzenbach’s $97,000 dwelling built in 1949, to replace the Clausen Homestead (the former Brown Homestead). 315 Above: Photo from 1917 Views of Rye book by Rye realtor Blakeman Quintard Meyer, of the mansion at Ridge Street that Edna Phelps Gregory Crawford (1880-1973) and Everett Lake Crawford (1879-1960) built in 1905 on their 36.7- acre Shanarock Farm, which was part of the former ~115-acre Brown Homestead dating back to 1680, as reported in the May 26, 1904 The Port Chester Journal (see article on the next page). Under Mrs. Crawford’s Last Will & Testament, 35.7 acres was bequeathed and transferred to the Town of Rye under a July 2, 1974 deed. The remaining 1-acre parcel with gate lodge at the 120 N. Ridge Street entrance was bequeathed/ deeded on July 2, 1974 to one of the Crawford daughters, Evna Crawford Allen. Under an Eminent Domain proceeding, he Town of Rye paid $750,000 in December 2004 to the Rye Brook New York Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses, who purchased the 1- acre parcel on April 2, 2003 from Evna Crawford Allen’s heirs, for $475,000. 316 May 26, 1904, The Port Chester Journal article about the initial purchase by Everett Lake Crawford of 30 acres in May 1904 from Mary P. Brown Satterlee (part of the Colonial-era, Brown homestead. Crawford then purchased another 6.707 acres in March 1905 from Sophie Clausen, who had acquired 64.664 acres in March 1905 from Mary P. Brown Satterlee, which included what became the future 22-acre Elm Hill Farm and 24-acre Talcott estate and part of the 51-acre John I. Downey estate. The Colonial-era Brown homestead included over 100 acres that became the estates of Everett Crawford, Katherine & Edwin Allen’s Elm Hill Farm, John Downey and Sophie & George Clausen. The homestead dwelling was one of two large dwellings on the elevated tract that became the 22.5-acre Clausen Homestead containing the Brown Homestead dwelling ... followed by Itala Bianchi Schwarzenback in 1946-1956 (who built a new, $97,000 dwelling in 1949) ... and Sol Kittay’s Red Roof Farm from 1956-1983. 317 Above Left: October 19, 1973, The Daily Item. page 8 article about the future Crawford Park after the bequest of 35.7 acres of the 36.7-acre acres Crawford property to the Town of Rye under the Last Will & Testament of Edna Phelps Gregory Crawford, who died of October 2, 1973 at age 92. Above Right: May 2, 1960, The New York Times obituary for Everett Lake Crawford ... a nephew of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Published: May 2, 1960 Copyright © The New York Times 318 Excerpt of 2009 Rye Brook Zoning Map/ Official Map showing the 390 house lots (predominantly 1/3-acre lots) on the former Milbank, Clausen, Downey, Allen (Elm Hill Farm) and Talcott estates on 184.793 acres of elevated farmland that were re-developed in 1955-1966 as the Elm Hill, Pine Ridge, Brookside, Roselyn Park subdivisions ... and then Talcott Woods (1976), Westerleigh Court (1986) and Red Roof Farm (1998). The red arrows highlight the R-15, Rye Acres subdivision (Winding Wood Road area) built in 1949-1953 as 151 house lots on 67.2 acres.