New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-13
Purchase Price About ST.
100000, According to
Trustworthy Source.
NEW OWNERS
WESTCHESTER MEN
Robert E. Farley Organization
Takes Charge of Sale and De-
velopment of Property.

Gldiiy yeSbcIddJ tidL 4 hllipSt oAdHOAg u
superb residential section at larry
town, had been sold. As this is the
lsrgest suburban deal reported in many
month";. il aroused unusual interest in
brokerage and investment circles. The
manor property is IL 81 famous histori-
cal part OF the Hudson Valley region.
The properly had been purchased
from the Three Hundred and Three
Fifth Avenue Corporation Cam pbell
CaTriIgsou, pVssilert b. a syndicate
o. HeStehes.-r County men, who in
tuyr have retained the Robert Z. Far
ley Development CrgaUiz" ION TO taae
cEt.ra charge ~ the IJcure develop
uers O. .he properly. The farley or
ElEHatOU. uh.cn 5 .svorabiy known
for rs developments ia Hestcnester
County Scarsda.e Est.tes, Gedney
Fum, the Westohester Syndicate, Oak
l. q Beach and Nepperhan Hcights-is
withdrawing at the same time from
Haleste, its Long Island development
at huntington, in order to devote its
entire time to this new property. IL
maintains spacious headquarters in the
Country Life Permanent Exposition,
Grand Central Terminal. The sale was
brought about through the efforts Of
L. Fisher Company.
Philipse Manor originally was a tract
comprising $50 acres, opposite the Tap
pan Zee, along the eastern shore OF the
Hudson River, Boosting a waterfront Of
one mile. 1t is a portion Of the {
domain extending from Spuyten Duyvil
up the Hudson to Croton Point, which
Vredryk Flypse, one Of the first Dutch
settlers, acquired from the Wequae-
squeek Indians, having obtained in 1880
a royal grant from Charles II to pug
chase land. This Vredryk Flypse's pos
sessions included at that carly date the
old Colonial manor house and mill--up
to whose sides his ships approached
after their arrival from Holland. The
picturesque name of the manor house
! was Flypse-Hi s-Castle, and it was
erected in 1888 on the banks OF Pecan
tico Creek where it energies from
Sleepy Hollow and flows beneath the
Headiess HOrseman Bridge, immortal
lied by Irving with his Ichabod Crane.
/ To-day the dam and battered gates are
I intact.
Long after the period of the Dutch
and Indians came one DR.. Bell, with
| friends from England. He saw the
! great future advantages in this loea-
! ton, preferring it to any other along
the Hudson, and promptly acquired it
from John Brisben Walker, then the
owner and publisher of 1.-THE Cosmopol-
itan Magazine"
The modern Philipse Manor property
has been developed with unusual con-
scientiousness and care, five or six
years being put upon Improvements, at
y cost of $l,250,000. before individual
plots were offered for sale. The most
elaborate possible improvements, ex-
tensive and expensive, were installed.
Over five miles of sidewalks, five feet
wide, and roads macadamized from curb
to curb, are among the modern i'm
provements. The guiding principle III
the laying out of the property was TO
retain forever a view of the river for
each house. Ten avenues, sixty feet
in width, extend from Broadway on the
upper side down to the river. On these
! the houses front, and each is compelled
! 70 stand back a distance of fifty fee:
! from the road; therefore a clear vista
( of 100 feet is perpetually maintained,
with views of the rolling hills beyond
the Tappan Zee forever in evidence.
/ The heavy, macadam roadbed extends
/ over three and q half miles, and there
are five miles of granolithic sidewalks.
The present sellers acquired the
property direct from the English syn
dicate at a price not officially stated,
but which reliable authority gives as
approximately Sl,25O,000.
! The present owners are especially
( enthusiastic over the fact that Philipse
/ Manor is one of the finest and largest
waterfront properties in the suburban
/ zone of the Hudson Valley region.
The Philipse Manor House is now
P 4 t.,aaFt ssaS kaN
erected as the castle of Flypse" in the
early Colonial period, in the middle
, of the seventeenth century. 1t is, OF
/ course, a most interesting residence,
on account of it's historic associations.
The new management assures prog
ress and success on account of it's re-
markably brilliant achievements as i'm
provers and sellers of Westchester
properties in the last decade. Its
present exalted plane is justly deserved
and has merited the praise OF botn
experts and laymen. In less than ten
years one estate after another has
been added, each new property coming
90 the organization normally from out
of the successes of its predecessors.
/ Robert f. Farley, in speaking of this
/ brilliant addition, said: THE adding
of Philipse Manor TO our Westchester
County organization has rounded out
| our interests so that now we are able
| TO offer to prospective home buyers
something in almost every desirable
section of the county. Our Nepperhan
Heights property at Gonkers Is an
! excellent locality for the man Of mod
crate means, and even Philipse Manor
is by no means a rich mans colony.
, Homes can be had there from the mod.
est cottage Of seven or eight rooms,
| on a plot 5Ox150. up to shore place
of fifteen or twenty rooms, with sew
eral acres of ground"
L. Ward Prince, secretary OF the
Farley organization. added: Eve arc
very glad to be in a position TO OFFER
Philipse Manor to our clients. Its SUI
perb location and the high character
of its improvements, with its proxim-
ity TO New York City, make 1t espe-
eially desirable. We are sure that
there are many metropolitan people
who have been anxious to locate on
the Hudson River without the neees-
sity Of climbing steep hills, and this
Is the only high class residential de-
yelopment where the approach to tho
property is on the level. being imEle-
I diately at the station which the New
VorL Central has spent so much money