A Walk around Tarrytown – Red telephone box

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I conclude this series of posts on my short walk in Tarrytown with this picture of something, which was once common in my homeland (UK) but now I imagine (I can only imagine as I haven’t been there for years) is much less so: the classic British bright red phone box.

However, there’s something not quite right about this one. It looks a little off. I’m hardly an expert on British phone boxes, but I suspect this is probably an imitation.

I’m not sure why it is where it is. It stands outside what appears to be a private house, but may be connected the neighboring Allan M. Block insurance agency.

Pity it isn’t one of the blue police phone boxes of Doctor Who fame. Below the door to the men’s room at Pandorica, a Doctor Who themed restaurant in Beacon, NY masquerading as the TARDIS.

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Taken with a Sony A7IV and Sony FE 28-75 f3.5-5.6 OSS.

A Walk around Tarrytown – Christ Episcopal Church

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“Christ Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 43 South Broadway (US 9) in Tarrytown, New York. Topped by a modest tower, the ivy-covered red brick church was built in 1837 and maintains an active congregation to the present day. The church also includes the San Marcos Mission, a Spanish-language ministry.

It was recognized as a landmark by the New York Department of Education in 1935. In 1987 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places for both its association with early American author Washington Irving, who served as a vestryman, and its distinctive early Gothic Revival architecture. It has undergone several extensive renovations since its construction, and has had two outbuildings added, but maintains its historic character.” (Wikipedia)

You can just make a blue historic marker at the bottom of the picture. It reads: “Christ Church. Erected in 1837. For many years Washington Irving was vestryman and warden. Ivy is from cuttings from vine on his home Sunnyside”

Taken with a Sony A7IV and Sony FE 28-75 f3.5-5.6 OSS.

A Walk around Tarrytown – Washington Irving High School

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The Washington Irving High School at 18 North Broadway in Tarrytown, New York was built c. 1897. In the 1920s, the new building was constructed for the school about a half mile south on Broadway, and the old school later become the Frank R. Pierson School. After the school closed, the building was derelict for many years, until being converted to condominiums.

The site of the school is considered to be one possibility – of many – for the location of the Elizabeth Van Tassel house, a Revolutionary War-era tavern mentioned by Washington Irving in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”.

The building was entered on the National Register of Historic Places on April 26, 1984.

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Plaque below a tree on the property. In case it’s difficult to make out it reads “This tree presented to the Washington Irving High School by the senior class 1940”

Taken with a Sony A7IV and Sony FE 28-75 f3.5-5.6 OSS.

A Walk around Tarrytown – First Baptist Church

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“The First Baptist Church of Tarrytown is located on South Broadway (U.S. Route 9) in Tarrytown, New York, United States. It is a stone building in the Victorian Gothic architectural style dating to the 1870s. In 1983 it and its rectory were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Congregants first met in the 1840s. The first church on the present site was erected in 1847. A quarter-century later Russell Sturgis was commissioned to design the present structure, which took five years to complete, including a detailed Gothic interior. It signaled Tarrytown’s development as a suburb, especially after John D. Rockefeller and members of his family moved to the village and joined the church. They made possible some of its later enhancements, such as its landscaping and rectory, both added later.” (Wikipedia)

Taken with a Sony A7IV and Sony FE 28-75 f3.5-5.6 OSS.