Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-11-10 | Page 13 | In New York

r I WORL r f J 08 n Jr J 1 l I I I l a a i. i J III I. I 1 Jr III V By RICHARD MASSOCK NEW YORK YORK YORK-On On a n. single acre of and nd In the suburban city of t Yonkers Yon Yon- her kers thirty minutes from Times Square SQ spreads s a two story Stone tone Building like a big whit box With bevelled edges around th tho top Compared the grand mansions mansions man sion's ions of ot movle magnates It Jt Is an ah unpretentious s structure yet et It 1 Is the tho only real manor house left In a a. a territory ry that h t nc nevertheless er abounds with countless manors J In the thc real re l estate developments ts It has b been en standing longer th titan than n any of Its neighbors neIghbor's and probably will occupy it Its cramped site longer loncer than tha any of 01 th the modern palaces that dot not the surrounding countryside for tho the historic landmark p Manor halo hall has hns be been n given n a ne new slate roof root expected to protect prote t It for tor another couple of LORDLY RELIC V X A A. A ward of ot tho tha American and Historic lr Preservation society the seventeenth century hall hail was givEn n. n to tho the state of New V. C York by William F. F Cochran of the late Alexandro Smith Cockran Cock Coch- ran rn Twice threatened with demolition de- de It It- finally was ius iu's bought by Mrs rs Cochran from th elt of t f Yon Yon- leers in 1907 and endowed by her hera a n a n. rello of ot colonial times V A As Its name namo indicates tl the i house was waa once th the thO country seat seat of a an Amerl American an aristocrat Frederick having haying become the wealthiest merchant In In J ew w wY Y York acquired tho landof dof two WO counties counties coun- coun ties tle on th thc b o of the hudson and be began In the the erection r o of oft a n home suitable to his we wealth and antipo po- po V Three o Tater his possessions w were r mado by royal toyal charter a al lord lord- nl pr manor of boro and V I V. V the first lor lord As Ai I descendants inherited his holdings they thoy enlarged tho original building Unfortunately for tor their landed se sec security se- se c the family adhered I It 16 to the British cause In tho the war o or of orIn In Independence and tho tim estate was Vas taken away avay from them sold and gradually broken up into smaller farms Bought by Yonkers Yonkers' s' s in lit 1868 as as' as a n city han hall and arid for tor Its 1 preservation r ser a tl tion n the tho building g. g was about b ut to be bo wrecked when Mrs Co Cochran Cohran hran Int Intervened rv Jh The tl family has run un out tho thelast the last direct descendant of oC Sir Frederick Miss Miss Miss' Catherine Wadsworth Wadsworth Wads Wads- worth Philipse dying at nt the tho age Of Cs 68 In at Greenwich Conn last Jast J January Sho left teft as realty only a a- afew few tract tracts of wild v ld mountain land which remained from the tho dis- dis dis dispersal dispersal of estate Tho The manor house however remains remain's romain's re- re mains main's t to tp perpetuate p to her ancestors ancestor's memory and to house the only completo completo com com- pleto collection of ot the tho portraits of of ot United States i presidents r outside of the tho national capitol The paintings were vero collected by Alexandcr t Smith Cochran and donat donated d by him to the V public V GODDESS SS IN STORAGE c a relic o of oX more recent times In lu New York k Is collecting dust duet dustIn In a Brooklyn warehouse whileS while alife a alife life Ute insurance company decides what p do with JUt it iL V VV V It Js ViS St. St t. t Gnu rather famous statue of oC Diana that adorned the Uie tower of old Madison Square Gard Gar Oar d len den n. n Th The Tho figure of h the h huntress poised on one foot Waa ai a memorable Fifth avenue avenue- sight Dt eS' eS When her hen grace was outlined against t a n full moon The Insurance company company acquired acquired It with the G Garden sit Kite on which a skyscraper now stands V VV V V V V V V