National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Westchester County, New York facts for kids

Location of Westchester County in New York

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Westchester County, New York, excluding the city of Peekskill, which has its own list.

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the northern half of Westchester County, New York, United States. The following communities comprise this region:

• Bedford (including Bedford Corners, Bedford Hills etc.)
• Cortlandt (including the villages of Buchanan and Croton-on-Hudson).
• Lewisboro, including the hamlets of Cross River, Goldens Bridge, South Salem and Waccabuc.
• Mount Kisco
• Mount Pleasant (including the villages of Briarcliff Manor, Pleasantville, Sleepy Hollow and the hamlets of Hawthorne, Pocantico Hills and Thornwood).
• New Castle, including the hamlets of Chappaqua and Millwood
• North Castle, including the hamlet of Armonk
• North Salem, including the hamlets of Croton Falls and Purdys
• Ossining, including the eponymous village
• Pound Ridge
• Somers, including the hamlets of Amawalk, Baldwin Place (Westchester portion), Lincolndale and Whitehall Corners
• The village of Tarrytown
• Yorktown, including the hamlets of Jefferson Valley, Mohegan Lake, Shrub Oak and Yorktown Heights.

Entries for the city of Peekskill are listed separately.

Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map.

Of the 239 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, 98, including 12 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs), are on this list. Two, the Bronx River Parkway and Old Croton Aqueduct, the latter an NHL, are linear listings included on both this list and the southern Westchester list.

This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted March 31, 2017.

Contents: Counties in New York

Albany (Albany) – Allegany – Bronx – Broome – Cattaraugus – Cayuga – Chautauqua – Chemung – Chenango – Clinton – Columbia – Cortland – Delaware – Dutchess (Poughkeepsie, Rhinebeck) – Erie (Buffalo) – Essex – Franklin – Fulton – Genesee – Greene – Hamilton – Herkimer – Jefferson – Kings – Lewis – Livingston – Madison – Monroe (Rochester) – Montgomery – Nassau – New York (Below 14th Street, 14th to 59th Streets, 59th to 110th Streets, Above 110th Street, Islands) – Niagara – Oneida – Onondaga (Syracuse) – Ontario – Orange – Orleans – Oswego – Otsego – Putnam – Queens – Rensselaer – Richmond – Rockland – St. Lawrence – Saratoga – Schenectady – Schoharie – Schuyler – Seneca – Steuben – Suffolk – Sullivan – Tioga – Tompkins – Ulster – Warren – Washington – Wayne – Westchester (Northern, Southern, New Rochelle, Peekskill, Yonkers) – Wyoming – Yates

Current listings

	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Location	City or town	Description
1	All Saints Episcopal Church		May 2, 2002 (#02000449)	96 and 201 Scarborough Rd. 41°08′41″N 73°50′36″W	Briarcliff Manor	1854 stone English Gothic church.
2	Amawalk Friends Meeting House		November 16, 1989 (#89002004)	Quaker Church Rd. 41°17′32″N 73°46′18″W	Amawalk	Well-preserved 1831 Quaker meeting house is rare one built by Hicksites during schism. War photographer Robert Capa and many of his family buried in cemetery.
3	Asbury United Methodist Church and Bethel Chapel and Cemetery		March 31, 2000 (#00000310)	19 Old Post Rd. and Old Post Rd. S 41°12′26″N 73°52′50″W	Croton-on-Hudson
4	Richard Austin House		September 20, 1988 (#88001527)	196 Croton Ave. 41°10′00″N 73°50′46″W	Ossining	1878 Gothic revival house is one of few totally intact in Ossining from early era of suburbanization
5	Bear Mountain Bridge		November 23, 1982 (#82001266)	US 6/202 41°19′12″N 73°58′49″W	Cortlandt	First bridge across Hudson north of New York City. Part of the Hudson Highlands Multiple Resource Area (MRA). Extends into Rockland County
6	Bear Mountain Bridge Rd.		November 23, 1982 (#82001274)	NY 6/202, between Bear Mt. Bridge 41°19′12″N 73°58′47″W	Cortlandt	Private toll road built to access bridge in 1924; later turned over to state; part of the Hudson Highlands MRA
7	Bedford Road Historic District		November 21, 1985 (#85002903)	Bedford Rd. 41°07′31″N 73°42′45″W	Armonk	Small cluster of mid-19th century Federal and Greek Revival houses and church is rare remaining group of buildings in those styles in area, and beginning of settlement of Armonk.
8	Bedford Village Historic District		October 2, 1973 (#73001285)	Roughly bounded by Court, Seminary, Poundridge and Greenwich Rds. 41°12′14″N 73°38′22″W	Bedford
9	Brandreth Pill Factory		January 10, 1980 (#80002792)	Water St. 41°09′54″N 73°52′11″W	Ossining	Benjamin Brandreth's facility was beginning of Ossining's industrial development when built in the 1830s. Later modified and expanded; stayed in operation until the 1940s; largely demolished in 2015 after damage from Superstorm Sandy.
10	Bridge L-158		November 29, 1978 (#78001923)	West of Goldens Bridge at Croton River 41°17′47″N 73°40′59″W	Goldens Bridge	Only remaining double-intersection Whipple truss rail bridge in New York. Built in 1883 near Kingston and moved to this location in 1904. Out of service since 1960.
11	Bronx River Parkway Reservation		January 11, 1991 (#90002143)	Bronx River Pkwy. from jct. with Sprain Brook Rd. to and including Kensico Dam Plaza 41°04′04″N 73°46′10″W	Valhalla and Bronxville
12	Caramoor		May 25, 2001 (#01000548)	149-181 Girdle Ridge Rd. 41°14′19″N 73°38′48″W	Bedford	1930s Renaissance Revival estate now used as classical music venue
13	Carrie Chapman Catt House		May 4, 2006 (#06000336)	20 Ryder Rd. 41°10′35″N 73°48′55″W	Briarcliff Manor	Home of suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt at the time the 19th Amendment was ratified
14	Chappaqua Railroad Depot and Depot Plaza		April 19, 1979 (#79003210)	200 South Greeley Ave 41°09′28″N 73°46′31″W	Chappaqua	1902 station and park with war memorial and statue of Horace Greeley built on land donated by his daughter and son-in-law. Still used as waiting area.
15	Christ Episcopal Church		April 23, 1987 (#87000658)	Broadway and Elizabeth Sts. 41°04′30″N 73°51′35″W	Tarrytown	Washington Irving was member of this congregation, and his pew is still preserved. Built in 1837, this is the earliest Gothic Revival church in America
16	Church of Saint Mary the Virgin and Greeley Grove		April 19, 1979 (#79003213)	191 South Greeley Ave. 41°09′20″N 73°46′21″W	Chappaqua	Horace Greeley planted the grove as a windbreak and reforestation project in 1856. In 1904 his daughter and son-in-law built a private chapel modeled on a similarly-named church in England, which later donated one of its stained glass windows. It became an Episcopal parish in 1916.
17	Aaron Copland House		September 19, 2003 (#03000245)	1538 Washington St. 41°14′25″N 73°54′11″W	Cortlandt Manor	Home of composer for last 30 years of his life
18	Gerard Crane House		September 5, 1985 (#85001954)	Old Croton Falls Rd. 41°20′27″N 73°40′30″W	Somers	Sophisticated 1849 stone Greek Revival house
19	Old Croton Aqueduct		December 2, 1974 (#74001324)	Runs N from Yonkers to New Croton Dam 41°12′52″N 73°51′52″W	Various	First long-distance aqueduct built to provide water from upstate to New York City. An engineering marvel in its time now used as a linear park
20	Croton North Railroad Station		August 27, 1987 (#87001458)	Senasqua Rd. 41°12′25″N 73°53′40″W	Croton-on-Hudson	Intact 1890 station, now used as offices, exemplifies commuter rail stations of that era. Two former Erie Railroad cars on old siding included in listing.
21	Dale Cemetery		July 17, 2013 (#13000500)	104 Havell St. 41°10′16″N 73°51′22″W	Town of Ossining	1851 cemetery with graves of Thomas Allcock, Benjamin Brandreth and other local notables. Now owned by town.
22	Downtown Ossining Historic District		August 9, 1989 (#88001827)	Roughly along US 9, Main St., and Croton Ave. 41°09′38″N 73°51′42″W	Ossining	Core of village reflecting impact of construction of Old Croton Aqueduct and 1870s fires.
23	Dutch Reformed Church		October 15, 1966 (#66000581)	N edge of Tarrytown on U.S. 9 41°02′10″N 73°51′47″W	Sleepy Hollow	Surviving 1685 stone church built by Dutch is state's oldest church; figures prominently in Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
24	Elephant Hotel		August 7, 1974 (#74001323)	335 U.S. Route 202 41°19′43″N 73°41′09″W	Somers	Birthplace of the circus in America, when Zephaliah Bailey began charging visitors to see his elephant. Now used as a circus museum, offices of the Somers Historical Society and town hall.
25	First Baptist Church and Rectory		July 21, 1983 (#83001829)	56 S. Broadway 41°04′28″N 73°51′33″W	Tarrytown	Victorian Gothic 1876 church designed by Russell Sturgis and patronized by Rockefellers.
26	First Baptist Church of Ossining		January 12, 1973 (#73001288)	S. Highland Ave. and Main St. 41°09′41″N 73°51′43″W	Ossining	1874 church is most advanced application of Gothic Revival style in Ossining; church was founded by town's founder
27	Marmaduke Forster House		February 22, 2011 (#11000139)	413-415 Bedford Rd. 41°08′04″N 73°47′23″W	Pleasantville
28	Foster Memorial AME Zion Church		June 3, 1982 (#82003414)	90 Wildey St. 41°04′48″N 73°51′44″W	Tarrytown	Founded in 1860, this is the oldest black church in Westchester County and possibly one of the oldest in the state
29	Greeley House		April 19, 1979 (#79003212)	100 King St. 41°09′32″N 73°46′19″W	Chappaqua	Home of newspaper editor Horace Greeley, pioneering suburbanite, staunch abolitionist and 1872 presidential candidate. Much of today's downtown Chappaqua is built on land he farmed.
30	Hammond House		May 6, 1980 (#80002790)	South of Hawthorne on Grasslands Rd. 41°04′34″N 73°48′42″W	Hawthorne	1720 home, modified twice in 19th century, is one of only two original tenant houses from the Van Cortlandt Manor left. Owned by the county historical society since 1926.
31	Edward Harden Mansion		January 16, 2004 (#03001401)	200 North Broadway 41°04′58″N 73°51′28″W	Sleepy Hollow	1909 Colonial Revival house built for journalist and investor Edward Harden was later home to first U.S. Montessori school
32	John A. Hartford House		December 22, 1977 (#77000987)	Southwest of Valhalla on New York State Route 100 41°04′08″N 73°47′25″W	Valhalla	Home of founder of A & P; now part of Westchester Community College
33	Highland Cottage		July 22, 1982 (#02001457)	36 S. Highland Ave. 41°09′35″N 73°51′41″W	Ossining	1872 reinforced-concrete Gothic Revival house
34	The Homestead		March 29, 2001 (#01000294)	36 Mead St. 41°16′59″N 73°35′44″W	Waccabuc
35	Washington Irving High School		April 26, 1984 (#84003437)	18 N. Broadway 41°03′32″N 73°51′28″W	Tarrytown
36	John Jay Homestead		July 24, 1972 (#72000918)	Jay St. 41°15′01″N 73°39′31″W	Katonah	Home of John Jay, major landowner in area, first Chief Justice of the United States and early state governor
37	John Jones Homestead		May 25, 1989 (#89000462)	Oregon Rd. and Durrin Ave. 41°18′58″N 73°54′00″W	Van Cortlandtville
38	Jug Tavern		June 7, 1976 (#76001293)	Revolutionary Rd. and Rockledge Ave. 41°08′41″N 73°51′52″W	Ossining	1760s stop on former Albany Post Road route remains intact
39	Katonah Village Historic District		September 15, 1983 (#83001830)	Parkway, Valleyedge, Edgemont and Bedford Rds. 41°15′20″N 73°41′02″W	Katonah
40	Lyndhurst		November 13, 1966 (#66000582)	635 S. Broadway 41°03′15″N 73°51′58″W	Tarrytown	Stone Gothic Revival mansion purchased and expanded by rail baron Jay Gould
41	Richard H. Mandel House		March 1, 1996 (#96000176)	323 Haines Rd. 41°14′40″N 73°43′33″W	Bedford Hills
42	Mead Memorial Chapel		November 30, 1999 (#99001443)	2 Chapel Rd. 41°17′47″N 73°35′59″W	Lewisboro
43	Merestead		September 27, 1984 (#84003431)	Byram Lake Rd. 41°10′31″N 73°42′19″W	Mount Kisco
44	Miller House		September 29, 1976 (#76001292)	Virginia Rd. 41°03′33″N 73°46′15″W	North White Plains
45	Mount Kisco Municipal Complex		March 9, 1997 (#97000116)	100-120 Main St. 41°12′09″N 73°43′37″W	Mount Kisco
46	Mt. Zion Methodist Church		May 10, 1990 (#90000692)	Primrose St. south of Reis Park 41°18′05″N 73°42′54″W	Somers	1794 church, remodeled in 1860, is early landmark in development of Methodism in New York
47	Music Hall		February 12, 1980 (#80002795)	11 Main St. 41°04′35″N 73°51′33″W	Tarrytown	1885 Queen Anne theater is one of the oldest in continuous use in the county
48	North Grove Street Historic District		March 13, 1979 (#79001650)	1, 2, 8, 15, and 19 Grove St. 41°04′33″N 73°51′27″W	Tarrytown	Five 1860s houses built by local well-to-do mostly intact
49	North Salem Town Hall		September 4, 1980 (#80002794)	Titicus Rd. 41°19′44″N 73°35′51″W	Salem Center
50	Old Chappaqua Historic District		July 15, 1974 (#74001319)	Quaker Rd. 41°10′16″N 73°46′42″W	Chappaqua	Farmhouses and other buildings clustered around 1753 Quaker meeting house that was the core of Chappaqua before the railroad.
51	Site of Old Croton Dam		June 19, 1973 (#73001289)	In the waters of the New Croton reservoir 41°13′39″N 73°51′10″W	Cortlandt
52	Old St. Peter's Church		March 7, 1973 (#73001292)	Oregon Rd. and Locust Ave. 41°18′49″N 73°54′04″W	Van Cortlandtville
53	Osborn-Bouton-Mead House		September 15, 2004 (#04000990)	399 Pound Ridge Rd. 41°15′57″N 73°33′59″W	South Salem
54	Palmer-Lewis Estate		August 6, 1998 (#98001008)	Black Brook Rd. 41°13′50″N 73°37′06″W	Bedford
55	Patriot's Park		June 14, 1982 (#82003415)	US 9 41°04′53″N 73°51′34″W	Sleepy Hollow and Tarrytown	1853 monument to 1780 capture of British Major John André, exposing Benedict Arnold's betrayal of the Continental Army, was one of earliest to a Revolutionary War event. Later the park was a Carrère and Hastings residential development and two girls' schools.
56	Philipsburg Manor House		October 15, 1966 (#66000584)	381 Bellwood Ave. 41°05′14″N 73°51′59″W	Sleepy Hollow	Intact colonial-era manor house
57	Philipse Manor Railroad Station		March 14, 1991 (#91000237)	Jct. of Riverside Dr. and Millard 41°05′40″N 73°52′12″W	Sleepy Hollow	Restored octagonal Tudorbethan station house, home today to local writers' group, is intact surviving example of early 20th-century commuter rail station
58	Pound Ridge Historic District		December 30, 1985 (#85003196)	Roughly Pound Ridge, Old Stone Hill, and Salem Rds., Trinity Pass and Westchester Ave. 41°12′35″N 73°34′34″W	Pound Ridge
59	Joseph Purdy Homestead		January 25, 1973 (#73001290)	Jct. of NY 22 and 116 41°19′42″N 73°39′21″W	Purdys
60	Rehoboth		April 19, 1979 (#79003214)	33 Aldridge Rd. 41°09′22″N 73°46′10″W	Chappaqua	Horace Greeley built what may be the first known concrete building as a dairy barn in 1856; later remodeled into a neo-Gothic house for his daughter by Ralph Adams Cram
61	John D. Rockefeller Estate		May 11, 1976 (#76001290)	Pocantico Hills 41°05′23″N 73°50′40″W	Mt. Pleasant	Kykuit, the estate of oil magnate and American dynasty founder John D. Rockefeller; open to public tours that also pass by his grandson Nelson's extensive modern art collection.
62	St. Augustine's Episcopal Church Complex		July 26, 2006 (#06000648)	6 Old Post Rd. N 41°12′30″N 73°53′13″W	Croton-on-Hudson
63	St. George's Church		May 8, 2012 (#12000262)	1715 E. Main St. 41°19′28″N 73°51′05″W	Mohegan Lake
64	St. John's Episcopal Church		January 31, 2017 (#SG100000616)	8 Sunnyside Ave. 41°08′06″N 73°47′14″W	Pleasantville	1912 Late Gothic church with later parish hall and 1800s building used as rectory are prominent local landmarks
65	St. Luke's Episcopal Church		January 4, 2001 (#00001612)	68 Bedford Rd. 41°15′18″N 73°41′04″W	Katonah
66	St. Mark's Cemetery		June 23, 1988 (#88000918)	E. Main St., corner of St. Mark's Pl. 41°11′40″N 73°43′35″W	Mount Kisco
67	St. Mark's Episcopal Church		November 21, 1991 (#91001725)	Jct. of N. Bedford Rd. and E. Main St. 41°12′26″N 73°43′35″W	Mount Kisco
68	St. Paul's Episcopal Church and Rectory		December 6, 1978 (#78001925)	St. Paul's Pl. 41°09′35″N 73°51′53″W	Ossining	1834 Gothic Revival church of Sing Sing marble designed by Calvin Pollard is oldest church in Ossining. Now Calvary Baptist Church.
69	Sarles' Tavern		December 31, 1979 (#79001647)	NY 100 41°11′31″N 73°47′56″W	Millwood	Demolished after 1993 fire
70	Scarborough Historic District		September 7, 1984 (#84003433)	US 9 41°07′45″N 73°51′22″W	Briarcliff Manor	Seven sites dating to between the 18th and 20th centuries, with a wide variety of Revival architecture styles
71	Sleepy Hollow Cemetery		June 3, 2009 (#09000380)	540 N. Broadway 41°05′24″N 73°51′43″W	Sleepy Hollow	Setting in Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; his final resting place along with many other famous people.
72	Smith Tavern		September 15, 1983 (#83001833)	440 Bedford Rd. 41°07′35″N 73°41′40″W	Armonk	1770s tavern has played a variety of roles in the history of North Castle. Now used as local history museum.
73	Somers Hamlet Historic District		April 21, 2004 (#04000349)	US 202, New York 100, New York 116, Deans Bridge Rd. and The Lane 41°19′42″N 73°39′01″W	Somers	Core of village that arose in late 18th and early 19th centuries from junction of two widely used turnpikes; buildings show influence of both Hudson Valley and New England vernacular building traditions.
74	South Salem Presbyterian Church Cemetery		September 10, 2014 (#14000586)	111 Spring St. 41°16′25″N 73°33′24″W	South Salem	Veterans of the French and Indian War, Revolutionary War and War of 1812 among those buried here
75	Stepping Stones		July 16, 2004 (#04000705)	62 Oak Rd. 41°14′56″N 73°42′04″W	Katonah	Home of Alcoholics Anonymous cofounder Bill W. and his wife Lois in their later lives; AA's Big Book written here; National Historic Landmark designation October 16, 2012
76	Stonecrest		January 28, 2004 (#03001520)	703 Croton Lake Rd. 41°13′32″N 73°43′40″W	Bedford Corners
77	Sunnyside		October 15, 1966 (#66000583)	Sunnyside Lane 41°02′57″N 73°52′11″W	Tarrytown	Riverside estate of Washington Irving
78	Taconic State Parkway		December 8, 2005 (#05001398)	Linear north from North White Plains to Putnam County line 41°19′47″N 73°49′06″W	Mount Pleasant, Ossining, New Castle, Yorktown	Scenic divided highway planned by Franklin D. Roosevelt for state park access. Built between the 1920s and early 1960s, epitomizing peak period of parkway design.
79	Tarrytown Lighthouse		May 29, 1979 (#79001649)	Spans Hudson River 41°05′02″N 73°52′27″W	Sleepy Hollow	1883 lighthouse originally stood further offshore, until shore got closer. Only one on Hudson in Westchester and only conical steel lighthouse on Hudson to have family living quarters. Part of the Hudson River Lighthouses TR
80	The Woodpile		February 10, 1992 (#92000030)	Jct. of Croton Lake and Wood Rds. 41°13′42″N 73°43′46″W	Bedford
81	Union Church of Pocantico Hills		May 6, 2002 (#02000447)	555-559 Bedford Rd. 41°05′44″N 73°49′58″W	Pocantico Hills
82	Union Hall		August 28, 1986 (#86001978)	NY 116 and Keeler Ln. 41°20′07″N 73°34′15″W	North Salem
83	United Methodist Church and Parsonage		November 4, 1982 (#82001278)	300 E. Main and 31 Smith Ave. 41°12′00″N 73°43′35″W	Mount Kisco	A Carpenter Gothic church built in 1868, and its parsonage
84	Usonia Historic District		September 5, 2012 (#12000600)	Usonia & Rocky Vale Rds., Laurel Hill & Orchard Brook Drs. 41°07′42″N 73°44′56″W	Pleasantville	Community of houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
85	Van Cortlandt Manor		October 15, 1966 (#66000579)	U.S. 9, north of the junction with U.S. 9A 41°11′46″N 73°52′37″W	Croton-on-Hudson	Intact Georgian-style colonial manor house, located much further north than that style is usually found
86	Van Cortlandtville School		April 7, 1989 (#89000285)	297 Locust Ave. 41°18′45″N 73°54′01″W	Van Cortlandtville
87	Waccabuc Historic District		July 28, 2015 (#15000236)	Mead St. & portions of Tarry-A-Bit Dr., Post Office & Chapel Rds. 41°17′26″N 73°35′43″W	Waccabuc	The district's 524 acres (212 ha) are the core of the Mead family landholdings around which the small hamlet of Waccabuc began developing in 1780, with many buildings from that and subsequent eras.
88	Washington School		February 12, 1987 (#87000080)	83 Croton Ave. 41°09′56″N 73°51′30″W	Ossining	1907 school was first modern school in growing village. Monumentality achieved despite small size by Beaux-Arts style and placement on rise.
89	West Somers Methodist Episcopal Church and Cemetery		October 25, 2011 (#11000755)	199 Tomahawk St. 41°19′51″N 73°45′04″W	Somers	1837 chapel-style Greek Revival church with nearby graves of settlers from that era, one of the few remnants of when West Somers was a thriving community. Maintains historical integrity despite extensive renovations.
90	Williams–DuBois House		May 25, 1989 (#89000463)	Grace Ln. and Pinesbridge Rd. 41°11′06″N 73°49′41″W	New Castle	1780 house is only known one from that era in town with gambrel roof
91	Witthoefft House		February 22, 2011 (#11000039)	11 Tallwood Rd. 41°07′48″N 73°44′13″W	Armonk
92	Yorktown Heights Railroad Station		March 19, 1981 (#81000419)	Commerce St. 41°16′16″N 73°46′49″W	Yorktown Heights	1877 station is one of only three New York and Putnam Railroad stations remaining in county, and one of only two of this size.
93	Isaac Young House		August 20, 2004 (#04000876)	114 Pinesbridge Rd. 41°11′43″N 73°49′00″W	New Castle	1872 Second Empire house built over earlier farmhouse in rural area, unusual for that style. Maintains high level of integrity.

Former listing

	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Date removed	Location	City or town	Summary
1	George Rohr Saloon and Boardinghouse		December 1, 1978 (#78001924)	Unknown	1-3 Highland Ave.	Ossining