Philipse
Manor Hall State Historic Site is
a historic house museum located in
Yonkers, New York. It is Westchester
County’s oldest standing building,
and is currently owned and operated
by the New York State Office of Parks,
Recreation and Historic Preservation.
The southwest corner, the oldest part
of the structure, was built around
1682 by Dutch-born carpenter and trader
Frederick Philipse, a son-in-law of
Stephanus Van Cortlandt, who by the
time of his death had amassed a 52,000-acre
(208 km²) estate that encompassed
the entire modern city of Yonkers,
as well as several other Hudson River
towns.
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