Wayside Cottage
Encyclopedia
Wayside Cottage is a historic home located at Scarsdale
, Westchester County, New York
. The earliest part of the house was built about 1720 and is the four-bay-wide, two-bay-deep, -story south section. It sits on a fieldstone
foundation and has a gable roof and verandah
with Doric order
piers. The center section of the house was built in 1828 and it is a -story, three-bay-wide structure with a gable roof and sheathed in clapboard. A third section is known as the "caretaker's quarters" and was built in the late 19th century. It is two stories high, three bays wide, and two bays deep. A wing was added to this section in 1928. The house underwent a major restoration in 1953–1954. Since 1919, it has been owned by the Junior League of Central Westchester.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
in 1981.
Scarsdale, New York
Scarsdale is a coterminous town and village in Westchester County, New York, United States, in the northern suburbs of New York City. The Town of Scarsdale is coextensive with the Village of Scarsdale, but the community has opted to operate solely with a village government, one of several villages...
, Westchester County, New York
Westchester County, New York
Westchester County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. Westchester covers an area of and has a population of 949,113 according to the 2010 Census, residing in 45 municipalities...
. The earliest part of the house was built about 1720 and is the four-bay-wide, two-bay-deep, -story south section. It sits on a fieldstone
Fieldstone
Fieldstone is a building construction material. Strictly speaking, it is stone collected from the surface of fields where it occurs naturally...
foundation and has a gable roof and verandah
Verandah
A veranda or verandah is a roofed opened gallery or porch. It is also described as an open pillared gallery, generally roofed, built around a central structure...
with Doric order
Doric order
The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of ancient Greek or classical architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian.-History:...
piers. The center section of the house was built in 1828 and it is a -story, three-bay-wide structure with a gable roof and sheathed in clapboard. A third section is known as the "caretaker's quarters" and was built in the late 19th century. It is two stories high, three bays wide, and two bays deep. A wing was added to this section in 1928. The house underwent a major restoration in 1953–1954. Since 1919, it has been owned by the Junior League of Central Westchester.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1981.
External links
- Wayside Inn, Post Road & Wayside Lane, Scarsdale, Westchester, NY: 6 drawings, 4 photos, 7 data pages, and supplemental material at Historic American Building Survey
- Junior League of Central Westchester website