There are Cape Cods built in the 1940s and ’50s and ranch-style homes from the ’50s and ’60s.īut the historic designation, which is subject to approval by the town board, after public hearings, is less about architecture and more about the rich history of the neighborhood. Parks’s, are circa 1929 Tudor-style cottages. The top and bottom of the neighborhood are bounded by North and South Roads, with Hillside Avenue on the west and Lincoln Place on the east. The neighborhood is located just north of White Plains to the west of the Bronx River Parkway. They were seeking opportunity for home ownership.” “In Harlem, all these people were living in apartment buildings. “One came out and another followed, then another and another,” he said. Cort, president of the civic association, attributed the growth of the community to a black architect who was doing construction in the area and who went to Harlem to draw apartment dwellers to Greenburgh. Parkway Gardens became an enclave for blacks at a time when other parts of the county were not as accessible.
“There are all kinds of areas, little snapshots of our history, that are worthy of being preserved.” “It’s not just Kykuit and Lyndhurst that are worthy of preservation,” Kate Hite, executive director of the Westchester County Historical Society, said of two historic estates in the county.
Brown, the commerce secretary who was killed in a plane crash in 1996 and a host of others. Such a designation is also being sought for the entire Parkway Gardens neighborhood, which was a haven for other black celebrities, including the jazz singer and band leader Cab Calloway the comedian Moms Mabley Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the Harlem congressman, and his second wife, Hazel Scott, the jazz singer and pianist, who was the first black woman to have her own television show Ronald H. Parks’s presence is once again being embraced, this time by Greenburgh’s fledgling historic and landmarks preservation board, which last month passed a resolution making his home its first landmark designation.
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