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The Bartow–Pell Mansion is a historic house museum at 895 Shore Road in the northern section of Pelham Bay Park, within the New York City borough of the Bronx.The two-story building, designed in the mid-19th century by an unknown architect, has a Greek Revival facade and federal interiors and is the last surviving manor house in the Pelham Bay Park area.
For many years after 1916, Pelham was the headquarters of the Sanborn Map Company, which produced Sanborn maps. The Pelham Picture House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2010. [7] The book, The Haunted History of Pelham, New York, documents the history of Pelham and the region, including ghost stories. [8]
View of Long Island Sound, near Pelham Manor, by Edward Gay.. Upon the death of his uncle in 1669, who died without male heir, John inherited the whole of his estate, becoming the 2nd Lord of Pelham Manor, and sailed to New York, arriving in 1670, [6] with a letter proving his claim from Lord Brereton to Governor John Winthrop of Connecticut.
The Village of North Pelham was incorporated on August 29, 1896. Its boundaries were the New Haven Railroad to the south, New Rochelle to the east and northeast, and the Hutchinson River to the west and northwest. By 1940, the Village of Pelham's population was 1,918 and the Village of North Pelham had a population of 5,046.
Pelham Road, known as Shore Road within the Bronx, is a historic 4.1-mile (6.6 km) north–south road that runs along the Long Island Sound shoreline from Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx through the southern Westchester County, New York communities of New Rochelle and Pelham Manor.
Manor Club is a historic clubhouse located at Pelham Manor, Westchester County, New York. It was built in 1921–1922, and is a Tudor Revival style L-shaped building consisting of a one-story sunroom, two-story main clubhouse, and three-story theater. The stuccoed building features half-timbering, bracketed timber entrances, and a large hipped ...
Thomas Pell, 1st Lord of Pelham Manor (1608 – September 21, 1669) [1] was an English-born physician who bought the area known as Pelham, New York, as well as land that now includes the eastern Bronx and southern Westchester County, New York, and founded the town of Westchester at the head of navigation on Westchester Creek in 1654.
The islands were acquired by the government of New York City on April 29, 1939, and are now part of Pelham Bay Park. [1] City Island - originally known as “Great Minnefords”, the 235 acre island is the largest of the group. Before the Revolutionary War, Benjamin Palmer renamed it "City Island" as part of his plans to create a great port city.