Around the Neighborhood – All Saints’ Episcopal Church, Briarcliff Manor, NY

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This pleasant old church stands about two blocks away from our house.

All Saints’ Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church in Briarcliff Manor, New York. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. John David Ogilby, whose summer estate and family home in Ireland were the namesakes of Briarcliff Manor, founded the church in 1854. The church was built on Ogilby’s summer estate in Briarcliff Manor.

Richard Upjohn designed the church building, which was constructed from 1848 to 1854 and expanded in 1911. The church has several memorial windows, including one by John LaFarge and a rose window by Frederick Wilson of Tiffany Studio.

The church’s opening service was held on December 13, 1854, and Ogilby donated the church’s current building and grounds in 1863. He gave the church its first name, “All Saints’ Church, Brier Cliff, Sing Sing, N. Y.”, naming his property Brier Cliff after his family home in Ireland. In 1910, the church building was enlarged to the present cruciform shape, and it was consecrated on November 1, 1911. In 1945, the church purchased property to the north and east of the building; a parish hall was built there in 1949 and dedicated on January 29, 1950.

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Notable rectors include Thomas Hazzard and John Adams Howell.) Hazzard was the founder of Hope Farm, and was a football player and coach, as well as a minister, dairy farmer, treasurer, and missionary in Liberia. John Adams Howell invented the Howell torpedo and other naval devices; he was also a rear admiral in the US Navy.

The church building was designed by architect Richard Upjohn and built between 1848 and 1854. The church was modeled on Saint Andrew’s in Bemerton, England, and it is an example of the modest English Gothic parish church popular in the region during the mid-19th century.

The building was originally designed with a simple rectangular nave with a high-pitched slate-covered gable roof and exterior walls of random-coursed granite ashlar in the Gothic Revival style. A transept and enlarged chancel were added in 1911. There is a metal steeple at the gable crossing. Memorial windows include one by John LaFarge (1889) and a rose window “Adoration of the Magi” (1911) by Frederick Wilson of Tiffany Studios. Also on the property is a Stick Style rectory dated to 1883 and an Arts and Crafts-style Old Parish Hall built in 1904. (Wikipedia).

Taken with a Panasonic Lumix GF1, Lumix G Vario 14-42 f3.5-4.6 II

Around the Neighborhood – Brick Pillars

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These brick pillars stand a few minutes walk away from our house. They form part of a brick wall, which completely enclosed the old Speyer mansion, Waldheim. Waldheim, the 130-acre country estate of New York banker James Speyer. Located in Scarborough, New York, the estate featured sprawling farm lands, a nine-hole golf course, gardens, and a lake. It was purchased in 1946 to be subdivided into residential lots. Our house is on one of these lots and so is inside the wall, portions of which have collapsed over time leaving these pillars to stand alone.

Taken with a Panasonic Lumix GF1, Lumix G Vario 14-42 f3.5-4.6 II

Around the Neighborhood – Festive Berries

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I came across these brightly colored berries while walking to dog. I liked the bright colors and the contrast between the red berries and the green leaves.

Luckily they were quite close to the house because I had to go back a few times. The first time I didn’t have a camera with me. The second I did have a camera, but with a wide angle lens. There was a lot of snow on the ground and I couldn’t get close enough. This is the third attempt.

Taken with a Panasonic Lumix GF1, Lumix G Vario 14-42 f3.5-4.6 II

Around the Neighborhood – Southbound Metro North Train

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I usually take pictures while walking the dog in the woods. However, of late I find the woods rather boring. There are only so many pictures of bare trees, dead trees, brown dead leaves, rock walls, boulders etc. that you can take.

So instead of the woods I decided to walk the dog around our neighborhood in Briarcliff Manor, NY. Although this post is the first in the series of pictures of areas I can walk to from the house, I’ve also decided to go back over old posts and, where appropriate assign them to the same “Around the Neighborhood’ category.

Southbound metro north train passing Scarborough Station. New Tappan Zee (Mario Cuomo) bridge in the background.

Taken with a Sony A6000 and 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 OSS kit lens.