Scarborough Historic District

Scarborough Historic District covers 376 acres along Albany Post Road (Route 9) between North Tarrytown and Ossining, close to the Hudson River. The district is mostly rural and sparsely developed. It centers on three estates, a former school complex, a cemetery and two churches, with stone and brick walls lining the highway. Its best-known building is Woodlea, a buff-brick Renaissance Revival mansion built in 1892-95 for Colonel Elliot Shepard and designed by McKim, Mead and White. It later became the Sleepy Hollow Country Club, organized by banker Frank Vanderlip in 1911. The firm also designed the stable and gatehouses. Other landmarks include St. Mary's Church, begun in 1850-51, with stained glass by the Bolton family, and the Scarborough Presbyterian Church of 1895. Rosemont, an 1840s brick house with a colossal Ionic portico, now serves as offices. Together the buildings show how the area developed from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century.