Residence Park, New Rochelle

Residence Park is a community located within the borders of The City of New Rochelle in Westchester County, New York. The area was one of the first planned communities in the country, created by Adrian Iselin, a prominent New York City financier and businessman. One of the fundamental goals was to create an area that blended in with the natural topagraphy, designed around large, common garden areas, landscaped islands and traffic medians and winding streets. [http://www.palmhaven.info/Data/Docs/Article-20070507-PHInfo-TheResidencePark-Cont.htm] The residential architecture reflects several distinct styles popular around the turn of the twentieth century such as Queen Anne Style, Colonial Revival and Tudor. Its boundaries are the Boston Post Road and the Downtown area on the north and Pelham Road and Long Island Sound on the south.

There are a number of historically significant structures including the country home of the American patriot and Huguenot Lewis Pintard. Louis Pintard was a member of the Committee of One Hundred in New York before the Revolution. He founded the Chamber of Commerce of New York. As a New York merchant, Pintard served General Washington as Commissary for the prisoners in New York City. His son, adopted from his deceased brother, founded the New York Historical Society, served as secretary of the New York Chamber of Commerce, and was elected first Sagamore of the Tammany Society. The First Presbyterian Church of New Rochelle (Pintard Church) was built next to the Pintard House, which has been incorporated into the church property as the priory. The house and the church are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Other notable structures include the home of Lou Gehrig located on Meadow Lane; the College of New Rochelle, and the former summer estate of Simeon Leland, "Castleview", also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Geographic location

*Geolinks-US-cityscale| 40.9012106 | -73.7834660
*Gnis|962405|Residence Park

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