Park Hill Yonkers

253 Van Cortlandt Park Avenue

Also listed as 2 Glenbrook Avenue

Park Hill (2002)

approx. p. 209

Block
223
Lot
1
Date
c. 1965
Contributing
No
Architect
Left blank
Style
Left blank
Garage
Left blank
Shed
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Park Hill Racquet Club, on the former Park Hill Country Club site; one-story brick building with outlying tennis courts.

Significance: Park Hill (2002), p. 11 and pp. 742-755, identifies the Park Hill Racquet Club as one of the large residential parcels whose protection was an explicit preservation concern and describes the earlier Park Hill Country Club as a key community amenity; the former country club site is now the Park Hill Racquet Club.

Park Hill West (1994)

approx. pp. 48-58

Record type
Significance note

Significance: Park Hill West (1994), pp. 48-58, repeats the country-club context as part of Park Hill's planned-community amenities.

Park Hill (1984)

approx. pp. 424-435

Record type
Significance note

Significance: Park Hill (1984), pp. 424-435, describes Park Hill's country club as one of the community amenities created by the American Real Estate Company and notes its prominence in upper New York.

Yonkers Illustrated (1901)

approx. p. 110 and pp. 114-115

Caption
Park Hill Country Club; The lake; The lake, in winter
Photographer
A. V. Card (lake view)
Credit
Blackburn & Soetemon (winter lake view)

The illustrated views show the Park Hill Country Club as both building and grounds: a large clubhouse with a broad porch and columns, seen across a reflective pond; a wooded lake edged by dense trees and foliage; and a winter scene with people skating and walking on the frozen lake, with houses or club buildings visible beyond the trees.

Significance: Yonkers Illustrated (1901), pp. 98-109, presents the Park Hill Country Club as a central social amenity in the growing Park Hill community, noting its summer outdoor sports and winter program of bowling, dramatic entertainment, cards, dancing, lectures, and music.

Park Hill on the Hudson (1892)

approx. p. 17 and p. 44

Caption
The Lake, East Park

The 1892 publication illustrates the East Park lake in summer and winter. Its planning text presents the lake as one of the shared East Park amenities, alongside the children's playground, gymnasium, club stable, tennis fields, and archery range.

Related source items (before 1892 to 1913)

Additional postcards, illustrations, and clippings show the Park Hill Country Club and the pond within its grounds as a social and recreational center of early Park Hill.

  • pre-1892 A photograph records a wooded pond scene associated with the country club landscape. Source: Yonkers Historical Society.
  • pre-1892 A photograph shows the pond in a leafless wooded setting, with reflections and uneven natural banks. Source: Yonkers Historical Society.
  • pre-1892 A photograph shows boys gathered at the pond edge near a fenced bank. Source: Yonkers Historical Society.
  • 1892 A newspaper clipping reports that construction had begun on the clubhouse and describes its planned assembly room, veranda, bowling alleys, materials, and architect William L. Thorne. Source: Yonkers Statesman, October 11, 1892, p. 3, accessed through Newspapers.com.
  • 1895 An illustrated page shows the clubhouse and notes the club's incorporation, early membership, officers, and 1895 roll of 130 names. Source: Yonkers Historical Society.
  • 1907 A postcard shows the clubhouse from across the pond, emphasizing the relationship between the building, water, and landscaped setting. Source: Yonkers Historical Society.
  • 1913 A postcard shows the clubhouse facade, broad porch, trees, flags, and open foreground. Source: Yonkers Historical Society.
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