Ingleside is an American country house overlooking the

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. It is one of only three survivors of the

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"Hudson River castles" built in the mid-nineteenth century, in the now "heavily suburbanized strip" between Riverdale, north of

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, and North Tarrytown. There were at least eighteen villas with picturesque "

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" details on this reach of the Hudson, as well as two full-blown

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x: Strawberry Hill, Irvington (c. 1855) and Glenview, Yonkers (considerably altered, now the

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). Ingleside was built in 1854-57 for the English immigrant Edwin B. Strange, a silk importer in

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,Edwin Strange, owner of 23, Park Place, and his immediate neighbor in New York, Dr Valentine Mott, threw their properties together to construct 23-25 Park Place, with a cast-iron storefront under an Italianate palazzo façade seven bays wide on Park Place and five bays wide on Murray Street, designed by Samuel Adams Warner, 1856-57; the structure is a designated Historical Landmark
Landmarks Preservation Commission: 25 Park place
. who commissioned its design from

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, the pre-eminent American architect of

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villas with

detailing. Much of the original

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s have been removed over the years, but the stuccoed villa still stands, housing St. Christopher's School,

Notes

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