12 Overcliff Street
Park Hill (2002)
approx. p. 379
"Falconhurst,” 2 1/2-story and basement rectilinear house; rubblestone base; shingle above; complex massing; porch with rubblestone end posts and paired bulbous colonettes on rubblestone bases; central entrance with windows to right; gable on porch with diamond-cut shingles; round tower at corner with ornate frieze; rounded corner to south; oriels; varied roof slopes; bracketed cornice; diamond-cut shingles at top of main gable.
Park Hill West (1994)
approx. p. 30
Falconhurst, Francis B. Chedsey House; two-and-one half story, multiple bay, Shingle Style residence; rectangular plan; high coursed stone foundation; full-width entrance porch with cross-gable supported on columns; six-over-one double hung sash windows; numerous porches; corner tower with decorative frieze; bay and oriel windows; cross-gambreled roofs with returns and exposed rafters.
Park Hill (1984)
approx. pp. 108-109
This is a 2 1/2 story Shingle Style house with a rounded hip roof and multiple cross gables with hipped roofs. There are numerous porches and a side tower with a conical roof.
Alterations: Aluminum siding; detail stripped
Significance: Park Hill (1984), pp. 424-435, identifies this as the Francis B. Chedsey residence (1892), one of the original fourteen houses built in the initial Park Hill subdivision.
Surveyor: Diane Lutters · Builder: American Real Estate Company
Yonkers Illustrated (1901)
approx. p. 120
The illustrated view shows Falconhurst, a large multi-story house with a corner tower, expansive porch, stone foundation, and trees.
Related source item (1900)
A turn-of-the-century image records Falconhurst as a named Park Hill residence associated with Francis B. Chedsey.
- 1900 A VictorianSource.com image captioned "Falconhurst, Park Hill, Residence of Francis B. Chedsey" shows the house framed by trees, with its stone base, rounded corner tower, projecting porch, balcony or porch rail, and decorative upper gable. The image is credited to A. V. Card. Source: VictorianSource.com.