Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site: 1

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1 - West Parlor

Original part of the house built C. 1682, originally used by Frederick Philipse I and his wife Margaret Hardenbroeck as a place of convenience near their mill. Later Philipse family generations used this room as a secondary parlor/office. Through the years, this room has also been used as an rental office for engineer Thomas Cornell, who helped establish the train system in Yonkers in the mid-19th century; a rental office for the Town of Yonkers under the owenership of Yonkers Village Hall; and the Yonkers City Hall Receiver of Taxes Office.

The cabinets date from the 18th century. The wide pine floorboards are original, and probably milled locally.

A - Dutch-tiled fireplace

The fireplace is surrounded with Delft tiles. "Some brown Dutch tiles with quaint figures representing cavaliers in armor, and women, with strange, horn-like head-dresses, holding birds perched on their hands" were found under layers of material when the house under went restoration in 1911. Matching tiles (a "conventional pattern, matching in color") were imported from the Netherlands to fill in for missing tiles (pp. 215-217, Hall, 1925).