272 South Broadway
Park Hill (2002)
approx. pp. 742-755
Significance: Park Hill (2002), pp. 742-755, identifies this as the site of the demolished Park Hill Inn, one of the hotels built by the American Real Estate Company to serve the community.
Park Hill West (1994)
approx. pp. 48-58
Significance: Park Hill West (1994), pp. 48-58, also identifies 272 South Broadway as the site of the demolished Park Hill Inn next to the train station.
Potential deed matches (1905, 1905)
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Related source items (1907 to 1912)
Additional postcards and a 1909 advertisement show the Park Hill Inn as a rail-side hotel and entertainment destination, with landscaped entrances, rail approaches, outdoor dining, summer concerts, and views promoted as part of its appeal.
- 1907 A color postcard shows the landscaped entrance to the Park Hill Inn, with the building above a terraced approach, stairs, railings, planted beds, and figures near the lower entrance structure. Source: Yonkers Historical Society.
- 1909 A Herald Statesman advertisement promotes Saturday and Sunday evening concerts, terrace dining "200 feet above the Hudson," French ice and light refreshments, and the Park Hill Inn orchestra under M. Manfred Malken. Source: The Herald Statesman, June 25, 1909, p. 3, accessed through Newspapers.com.
- 1911 A postmarked postcard shows the inn from its formal entrance, with stone piers, stairways, railings, a "PARK HILL INN" sign, and the building set higher on the slope behind trees and plantings. Source: Yonkers Historical Society.
- 1912 A Yonkers Public Library postcard shows the inn from the side and front, with railroad tracks in the foreground, a path or drive between the tracks and the building, and the white inn set behind trees and plantings. Source: Yonkers Public Library.
- 1912 A Yonkers Public Library postcard shows the entrance approach from street level, with tracks across the foreground, stone piers framing the lower entry, and stairs rising toward the inn grounds. Source: Yonkers Public Library.