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John Bond Trevor House, also known as "Glenview," is a historic home located at Yonkers

Yonkers, New York

Yonkers is the fourth most populous city in the state of New York , and the most populous city in Westchester County, with a population of 195,976...

, 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...

. It was designed in 1876 by the noted architect Charles W. Clinton

Charles W. Clinton

Charles William Clinton was an American architect. From 1894 until his death, Clinton was a partner of the prominent firm of Clinton and Russell, but from 1858 through 1894 he conducted his own significant career....

(1838-1910) and built for John Bond Trevor

John Bond Trevor

John Bond Trevor was an American financier and Wall Street pioneer. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , he moved to New York City in 1849. In 1850 he became a member of the New York Stock Exchange and entered into brokerage with the firm of Carpenter, Van Dyke & Trevor. That venture was dissolved...

(1822-1890) in an eclectic Late Victorian

Victorian architecture

The term Victorian architecture refers collectively to several architectural styles employed predominantly during the middle and late 19th century. The period that it indicates may slightly overlap the actual reign, 20 June 1837 – 22 January 1901, of Queen Victoria. This represents the British and...

style. It is a -story building with an 84 foot tower topped by a steep pyramidal roof. It is built of locally quarried gray stone with Ohio sandstone

Sandstone

Sandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized minerals or rock grains.Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust. Like sand, sandstone may be any colour, but the most common colours are tan, brown, yellow,...

ornamentation. It has a steep-sided hipped roof with 10 dormer

Dormer

A dormer is a structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface. Dormers are used, either in original construction or as later additions, to create usable space in the roof of a building by adding headroom and usually also by enabling addition of windows.Often...

s. The interior features Eastlake

Eastlake Movement

The Eastlake Movement was a nineteenth century architectural and household design reform movement started by architect and writer Charles Eastlake . The movement is generally considered part of the late Victorian period in terms of broad antique furniture designations...

style woodwork by Daniel Pabst

Daniel Pabst

A virtuoso cabinetmaker of the Victorian Era, Daniel Pabst created some of the most extraordinary hand-carved furniture in America. Sometimes working in collaboration with architect Frank Furness , he crafted pieces in the Neo-Grec, Renaissance Revival, Modern Gothic, and Colonial Revival styles...

(1826-1910) of Philadelphia. The house is part of the Hudson River Museum

Hudson River Museum

The Hudson River Museum, located in Trevor Park in Yonkers, New York, is the largest museum in Westchester County. The Yonkers Museum, founded in 1919 at City Hall, became the Hudson River Museum in 1948...

and served as the home of the museum for 45 years from 1929.

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 1972.

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