Yonkers”™ very own time machine opened again for business this month.
The 1740 Sherwood House on Tuckahoe Road beside the Sprain Brook Parkway is both a local and national treasure: owned and maintained by the Yonkers Historical Society and bearing the federal designation of cultural significance via the National Register of Historic Places.
The Sherwoods were Colonial revolutionaries, unlike their Tory landlords, the Philipse family, according to Mary Hoar, president of the Yonkers Historical Society. She called the house, which hosts about a thousand visitors per year, “Yonkers”™ greatest undiscovered treasure.”
The house”™s herb garden reflects the garden of Dr. John Ingersoll, Yonkers”™ first physician and owner of the house from 1801 to 1827. The garden has been restored three times previously ”“ by the Federated Garden Clubs of Yonkers, by the Luther Burbank Garden Club and by Bronxville Boy Scout Troop 1 ”“ and is currently under the care of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Westchester master gardeners.
The property”™s two outbuildings were built about 1850 by the Weed family, which owned the house for nearly a hundred years till 1923. Later, Con-Ed donated the house and land to Yonkers.
The house is open Sundays 2-4 p.m. through June 28 and by appointment. Admission is free; phone 961-8940.
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