Larchmont Manor Walking Tour #1

This is a short walking tour exploring historical sites in the Village of Larchmont. The majority of the information in this tour is accredited to the Larchmont Historical Society.

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Larchmont Manor Walking Tour #1

Larchmont, New York 10538, United States

Created By: Mamaroneck Schools

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This tour brings you down from the Larchmont Library to the water at Manor Park, stopping at many historically significant sites along the way. This tour visits important sites in the History of Larchmont such as The Manor House, Fountain Square, The Manor Inn, and others. This tour will give you a great look into the history of some of the most important sites in Larchmont's history before ending on the water at the beautiful Manor Park.


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In 1922, Edward F. Albee, (grandfather of playwright Edward Albee, known for the play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf”), a prominent resident, theater owner, and producer, donated the land for the development of the Albee Court Apartm... Read more
At the end of the revolutionary war, Peter Jay Munro and his wife Margaret White began to acquire the property on the middle neck of Richbell's purchase formerly held by Samuel Palmer and his heirs. This Federal style country house was erec... Read more
The Larchmont Manor Company sold this property in 1885 to Katharine Adelaide Dana, widow of John, of Richfield Springs, New Jersey. On November 18, 1890, the Paragraph reported the destruction by fire of a house on this site, "the reside... Read more
The statue in the center of Fountain Square is called the Mermaid's Cradle. In the late 19th century, a Larchmont Resident named Elizabeth Flint visited Harriet Hosmer, a neoclassical sculptor who is largely regarded as the most distingui... Read more
One of four originally, the Belvedere was the final active residential hotel in Larchmont, later known as the Manor inn. Built in the spring of 1893 by Mr. and Mrs. George Chatterton, it took its name from the open porches (removed in 1956)... Read more
The earliest known settlers in what was to become Larchmont were the Siwanoy Indians, an Algonquin tribe.  In 1614, a Dutch sea captain discovered the Long Island Sound after passing through Hell’s Gate, a narrow tidal straight in the E... Read more

 

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