Philipsburg Manor House

Coordinates: 41°05′18.7″N 73°51′49″W / 41.088528°N 73.86361°W / 41.088528; -73.86361
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This article is about the manor house in the village of Sleepy Hollow. For the English land grant, see
Philipse Manor Hall
.

Philipsburg Manor
The manor
Map
Interactive map showing the location of Phillipsburg Manor House
LocationSleepy Hollow, New York
Nearest cityWhite Plains
Coordinates41°05′18.7″N 73°51′49″W / 41.088528°N 73.86361°W / 41.088528; -73.86361
Built1693
NRHP reference No.66000584
NYSRHP No.11960.000094
Significant dates
Added to NRHPOctober 15, 1966[2]
Designated NHLNovember 5, 1961 [1]
Designated NYSRHPJune 23, 1980

Philipsburg Manor House is a historic house in the Upper Mills section of the former sprawling Colonial-era estate known as Philipsburg Manor. Together with a water mill and trading site the house is operated as a non-profit museum by Historic Hudson Valley. It is located on US 9 in the village of Sleepy Hollow, New York.

Although an English-deeded tract, it is listed by some sources with the

patroonships of New Netherland since it incorporated part of that previously owned by Dutch Jonkheer Adriaen van der Donck
.

History

The main house.
Phillipseburg Manor appears on this 1814 map as Philipsburg.

The manor dates from 1693, when wealthy

Margaret, and later his son Adolph shipped hundreds of African men, women, and children as slaves across the Atlantic.[3]

By the mid 18th century, the Philipse family had one of the largest slave-holdings in the colonial North.

Philipse Manor Hall
in Yonkers

The manor was tenanted by farmers of various European backgrounds, and operated by enslaved Africans.[5] (In 1750, twenty-three enslaved men, women, and children lived and worked at the manor.)[citation needed]

At the outbreak of the

Sir Henry Clinton during military activities in 1779. It was there that he wrote what is now known as the Philipsburg Proclamation, which declared all Patriot-owned slaves to be free, and that blacks taken prisoner while serving in Patriot forces would be sold into slavery.[7]

Named a National Historic Landmark in 1961,[1][6][8] the farm features a stone manor house filled with a collection of 17th- and 18th-century period furnishings, a working water-powered grist mill and millpond, an 18th-century barn, a slave garden,[9] and a reconstructed tenant farm house. Costumed interpreters re-enact life in pre-Revolutionary times, doing chores, milking the cows, and grinding grain in the grist mill. In 2016, historic restoration work sponsored by the New York State Council on the Arts was completed on the grist mill to rebuild the entire wooden waterwheel and flume.[10]

Further reading

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Philipsburg Manor". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. September 18, 2007. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011.
  2. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  3. ISBN 978-0-300-11990-9
    .
  4. ^ "Local History: Colonial Yonkers," http://www.enslavedafricansraingarden.org/history.shtml
  5. ^ "Philipsburg Manor, The Early Years," http://www.hudsonvalley.org/education/philipsburg-manor/early-years
  6. ^ a b ""Philipsburg Manor", January 1975, by James Dillon". National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination. National Park Service. January 1975.
  7. ISBN 978-0-19-518135-7
    .
  8. ^ "Philipsburg Manor--Accompanying 5 photos, exterior, from 1967 and 1974". National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Photos. National Park Service. January 1975.
  9. ^ "Enslaved Africans' Rain Garden," http://www.enslavedafricansraingarden.org/index.shtml
  10. ^ Historic Hudson Valley, "Work Begins on Large Restoration Project at Philipsburg Manor", 10-14-2016.

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