{"nrhp_refnum":"74002263","name":"Untermyer Park","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"Warburton Ave. and N. Broadway S. of jct. with Odell Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Yonkers","county":"Westchester County","state":"NY","lat":40.96716555650005,"lon":-73.88745437180324,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-05-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Untermyer Park is a public park in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, made up of surviving formal gardens from the former Greystone estate of lawyer Samuel Untermyer, laid out on a hillside above the Hudson River.","why_significant":"The nomination describes it as a Beaux Arts garden in the Grecian style, and as a rare expression of the idealization common in the texts of its time. The surviving gardens still reflect the hand of Samuel Untermyer, a prominent corporate lawyer who designed them and had extensive botanical knowledge. It is noted for its architecture and landscape architecture.","narrative":"Untermyer Park in Yonkers preserves the remaining formal gardens of Greystone, the hillside estate of lawyer Samuel Untermyer, overlooking the Hudson and the Palisades. Its features include a walled Greek Garden with a cross-shaped pool, four octagonal brick towers, and a small Greek theatre with extensive mosaics and two columns topped with sphinxes by sculptor Paul Manship. A colonnade leads down a terraced vista to a columnar ruin, while a circular marble-columned Temple, a rock garden with a stone and wrought-iron gazebo, and a stone carriage house survive nearby. Untermyer, known for investigating and regulating large corporations, bought the property in 1899 and designed the gardens himself, drawing on his botanical knowledge. The estate once held thousands of tulips, rhododendrons and orchids. The mansion has been demolished and the grounds reduced in size. Yonkers acquired the land in 1946 and has kept it open as a public park, with restoration under way.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Designed by Samuel Untermyer; sphinx sculptures by Paul Manship","architectural_style":"Beaux Arts Garden in the Grecian Style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Owned by the City of Yonkers since 1946 and open to the public as a park; condition rated fair, with restoration under way and a deteriorating carriage house slated for rehabilitation. The original house has been demolished.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:39.55213-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/74002263.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74002263/229922cfbc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74002263/229922cfbc-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Ronala43","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Untermyer_Park_and_Gardens,_Yonkers,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ronala43</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Untermyer_Park_and_Gardens,_Yonkers,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75323277","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untermyer_Park_and_Gardens","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7897589"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/westchester-county/untermyer-park-74002263/"}