Ingleside, Dobbs Ferry

Ingleside, Dobbs Ferry, New York, is an American country house overlooking the Hudson River, one of only three survivors of the Gothic Revival "Hudson River castles" built in the mid-nineteenth century, in the now "heavily suburbanized strip" between Riverdale, north of Manhattan, and North Tarrytown, where once there were at least eighteen villas with picturesque "manor house" details— as well as two full-blown châteaux: Strawberry Hill, Irvington (c. 1855) and Glenview, Yonkers (considerably altered, now the Hudson River Museum). [John Zukowsky, "Castles on the Hudson" "Winterthur Portfolio" 14.1 (Spring 1979:73-92) p 78ff notes the other two survivors: Lyndhurst, Tarrytown, and Greyston, Riverdale. ] Ingleside was built in 1854-57 for the English immigrant Edwin B. Strange, [Susan Strange, "A social history of two immigrants Edwin Bruton and Albert Bruton strange, originals owners of 'Ingleside"", "Westchester Historian" 74.1 (Winter 1998:3-10) and .2 (Spring 1998:38-44).] a silk importer in New York City, [Edwin Strange, owner of 23, Park Place, and his immediate neighbor in New York, Dr Valentine Mott, threw their properties together to construct 23-25 Park Place, with a cast-iron storefront under an Italianate palazzo façade seven bays wide on Park Place and five bays wide on Murray Street, designed by Samuel Adams Warner, 1856-57; the structure is a designated Historical Landmark ( [http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/pdf/govpub/287925parkplace.pdf Landmarks Preservation Commission: 25 Park place] ).] who commissioned its design from Alexander Jackson Davis, the pre-eminent American architect of picturesque villas with Gothic Revival detailing. Much of the original crenellations have been removed over the years, but the stuccoed villa still stands, housing St. Christopher's School, Dobbs Ferry.

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