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YHS Administrative Office: Grinton I. Will Library 1500 Central Park Ave Yonkers, NY 10710 (914) 961-8940   Office hours: Mondays 1PM - 5PM or by appointment. Our Office is located on the First Floor of the Grinton Will Library 1500 Central Park Avenue Yonkers NY 10710   If we are not open, leave a message at 914-961-8940

Sherwood House, located 340 Tuckahoe Road (at the southbound entrance to the Sprain Brook Parkway) in Yonkers, is one of the few remaining pre-Revolutionary War tenant farmhouses in the New York Metropolitan area. It was built about 1740 by Thomas Sherwood on land leased from Frederick Philipse and was purchased in 1801 by Yonkers’ first physician, Doctor John Ingersoll. Historic Sherwood House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is owned and maintained by the Yonkers Historical Society and will open Sunday May 3rd  and will be open Sundays in May, June, September and October, 2009. Sherwood House is also open by appointment. For information, telephone the Yonkers Historical Society at 914-961-8940.

Upcoming Events:

Yonkers Historical Society Annual Dinner "Key to History" Awardee Jeff Williams, November 20th, 2008 at "The Social" at Dunwoodie Golf Course Shoprite Supermarkets: Beatriz Obregon, Damaris Rivas, Barbara Ankney, Tom Urtz, Robert Gillick, Michael Sisia, and Eddie Rios. YHS Trustee Steve Macknowski was honored on the 60th anniversary of his winning the gold medal in the Olympics in 1948. YHS President Mary Hoar presents the "Key to History" award to YHS President Emeritus Jeff Williams Guest Speaker: Eddie Dee, discussing his latest book "The Itch" _______________________________________________     Yonkers Historical Society author Eddie Dee signs copies of his latest book at reception at the Pier View Restaurant on November 15th, 2008   Yonkers Historical Society Annual Dinner "Key to History" Awardees in attendance November 7th, 2007, Riverview Key to History Award Winners: L-R: Betty Morgan, Hon. Kay Carsky, Jack Prill, John Favareau, Andrew Romano. Seated: Mary Madden, Richard Moore. Missing from photo: Terrence Price, Steve Byrns, Msgr. Corrigan, Tom Flynn, Michael Rebic, Nick Spano, Rev. S. Burtner Ulrich, Tom Cristiano, Alfred DelBello, Dean Granding, Jerry Jerome, Don Klein, Hon. Angelo Martinelli, George Rutledge and our current President Mary Hoar. _________________________________

"Yonkers Then and Now"

A joint photographic project between the Yonkers Historical Society
and Blue Door Art Association compared images of Yonkers from the past to the present. These images were published in a book called "Yonkers: Then and Now."

 For information on ordering the book from the Yonkers Historical Society, click here.
The photographs were on exhibit in the Yonkers Room at the Riverfront Library, One Larkin Center and at the Grinton I. Will Library, 1500 Central Avenue, Yonkers. A companion poster (below) was also produced and is available for sale through the YHS.

Order the "Yonkers Then and Now" Poster for your home or office...

Thanks to the efforts of State Senator Nicholas Spano, the Yonkers Historical Society will receive $50,000 in state funding towards improvement to the Society’s Sherwood House site, located on Tuckahoe Road at the Sprain Brook Parkway. Senator Spano was also instrumental in reaching out to Con Edison and Shop Rite Supermarkets and gaining their support to provide both long-term maintenance and capital improvements at the property, which was developed in 1740 as a tenant farm site for the Manor of Philipsburgh. We look forward to commencing with building projects after our completion of a master plan for the Sherwood House, its grounds and adjacent structures.

On April 21, 2006, NYS Senator Nick Spano, NYS Legislator Lou Mosiello, William McGrath of Con Edison and John Salcedo from Shoprite on Tuckahoe Road join YHS President Jeff Williams, trustees and docents Nancy Sarmast, Georgina Reynolds and Betty Morgan at Sherwood House as Sen. Spano announces a $50,000 grant to refurbish the house and grounds (see photo above).

2005 Annual Meeting at the Riverfront Library on April 23rd
presents two YHS book projects:
Yonkers in the 20th Century
and
Getty Square - The Village and Other Yonkers Memories  by Eddie Dee

YHS President Jeff Williams introduces Marilyn Weigold (below), editor of "Yonkers in the 20th Century"

President Williams presents plaque of appreciation to retiring YHS Trustee and
prolific contributor to Yonkers Historian Tom Flynn

Eddie Dee signed copies of his book Getty Square - The Village

Eddie beguiled the audience (below) with his reading of "Sunday Dinner at Aunt Petunia's"

Eddie's book was profiled in the April 25, 2005 Journal News (Page 1A)

Editor Marilyn Weigold is soliciting Yonkers photographs and oral histories for Yonkers in the 20th Century. If you have anything to contribute, please email her at mweigold@pace.edu or telephone her at 914-762-2149 or 631-765-3486.

Please call the Yonkers Historical Society at 914-961-8940 for more information.