All Saints Church Briarcliff Manor: The Old Parish House.

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All Saints is quite close to my house. I was walking by and got talking to the sexton, Don. He told me he was going up to the Old Parish House to prepare it and the rectory for a new rector whose arrival was imminent. I told him I’d never seen the inside, and he invited me to go with him.

Around 1904 a small fieldstone parish house was built on a rocky rise behind the rectory. Designed in the Arts and Crafts style and completed in 1904, it was constructed almost entirely by parish women, an almost unheard-of thing at the time (see picture). The hall has walls of undressed fieldstone, a split entrance door in the Dutch manner and a fieldstone fireplace.
Thanks Don.

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Taken with an Apple iPhone SE II

Lucy’s Pizza

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They don’t make pizzerias like this anymore!

According to one of Ossining’s Museum in the Streets information boards:

The Union Hotel, built in 1800, once stood on this site. It was for many years the official Village “stage house” for the York and Albany turnpike Stage Company. Many important persons stopped at the hotel, including Emperor Napoleon III of France, who dined there serval times on visits to America. Next to the hotel was the J.E. Buckhout Blacksmith Shop, which took care of the needs of the stagecoaches and horses. In 1887 the property was purchased by Dr. Edward B. Sherwood, a dentist, who demolished the hotel and built his grand residence. Dr. Sherwood served the Village as its president, the predecessor to the office of mayor. The Cynthard Building, which presently occupies the site, was built in Renaissance Revival style in 1929.

Taken with a Sony RX100 VII

Ossining High School

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I’ve walked past Ossining High School many times, but I can’t recall having taken photographs of it.

Ossining High School was bult in 1929. It was designed by famed architect James Gamble Rogers. The tower, rising three stories above the main building, represented the highest point in the village when built, and was inspired by Roger’s Collegiate Goth buildings at Yale, Northwestern and Columbia universities. The entire building is faced with varied-color Connecticut brick. In 1930, Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt expressed his admiration of the school, “I have seen your new High School building. I think it is very beautiful, and you should be very proud of it.” Major additions and renovations were completed in 1957, 1985, 2002 & 2014. In 2012, Ossining’s High School received Intel Corporation’s Star Innovator Award as the top school for Science and Mathematics in the nation.

“Careswell,” built in 1835 in the Greek Revival style, was once home of General Aaaron Ward (1790 – 1867), a native of Sing Sing and alumnus of the local Mount Pleasant Military Academy. He fought in the War of 1812, served in the U.S. House of Representatives for multiple terms, and became the first president of Dale Cemetery. The sprawling estate was later acquired by local financier Henry J. Baker, builder of nearby Highland Cottage and benefactor of the United Methodist Church. The mansion, constructed from local Sing Sing marble, survived until circa 1955 when it was demolished to make way for the Junior High School addition to Ossining High School. A section of the old marble wall in front of the school is all that remains today of the mansion (the fourth photograph clearly shows the division between the new (farther away) and the old (closer to the camera) parts of the wall.

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The descriptions above are taken from two of the information boards erected as part of Ossining’s Museum in the Streets initiative, two examples of which can be seen below.

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Taken with a Sony RX100 VII