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Untermyer Park and Gardens is a historic 43-acre (17 ha) city public park, located in Yonkers, New York in Westchester County, just north of New York City. The park is a remnant of Samuel Untermyer 's 150-acre (61 ha) estate "Greystone".
The garden is a municipal park owned by the City of Yonkers. The Untermyer Gardens Conservancy, in partnership with the city, works to restore and enhance the site and raise funds to support its ...
Samuel Untermyer (March 6, 1858 [a] – March 16, 1940) was a prominent American lawyer and civic leader. He is also remembered for bequeathing his Yonkers, New York estate, now known as Untermyer Park , to the people of New York State .
Samuel Untermyer in 1932. The Untermyer Fountain features a bronze cast of Walter Schott's Three Dancing Maidens, completed in Germany prior to 1910.Named after American lawyer and civic leader Samuel Untermyer, the fountain was donated to the park by his children, Irwin Untermyer, Alvin Untermyer, and Irene Richter, following his death in 1940.
The Untermyer Fountain is one of the full size casts which was donated to the park by the children of Samuel Untermyer in 1947, having originally stood at his Greystone estate in Yonkers, New York. [2] Mersereau made it his personal mission to find every copy of the sculpture that existed, travelling the globe to view each one.
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Yonkers, New York.The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below) may be seen in an online map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates".
Tilden retired in the early 1880s, living as a near-recluse at his 110-acre (0.45 km 2) estate, Greystone (now part of Untermyer Park and Gardens) in Yonkers, New York. He died a bachelor at Greystone on August 4, 1886, at the age of 72. [103] He is buried at Cemetery of the Evergreens in New Lebanon, Columbia County, New York. [104]
Untermyer or Untermaier may refer to: Untermyer Fountain, in Manhattan, New York; Untermyer Park and Gardens, in Yonkers, New York; People with the surname