Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site is proud to reprise our popular “Yonkers Waterfront Walking Tour”. This approximately 1-mile urban hike will take place on October 18, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. and departs from the museum at 29 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers, NY.
Featured on the tour will be the daylighted Saw Mill River, Yonkers Train Station, Yonkers Recreation Pier, the Enslaved African Rain Garden, and more, covering the city’s history from its early Indigenous origins to the present, with emphasis on the 18th and 19th centuries. If you’ve ever wondered how and why Yonkers developed, and what the downtown used to look like, this is the tour for you!
Tickets are $3 for seniors and students, $6 for adults, and tickets include museum admission. To register, call 914-965-4027 or email philipsemanorhall@parks.ny.gov.
About Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site
Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site, located at 29 Warburton Ave., Yonkers, NY, 10701, is open for tours Wednesdays through Sundays, 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Dating back to the 1680s, Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site sits near the confluence of the Nepperhan (Saw Mill) and Hudson Rivers, the site of a Munsee Lunaape village. Used by four generations of the Philipse family and worked by the people they enslaved as well as European tenant farmers, the Philipse Manor was once over 200,000 acres and helped make the Philipse family the richest in New York. Loyalists during the American Revolution, they fled to England and the Hall was owned by several individuals before becoming the Yonkers Village Hall and later Yonkers City Hall. When a new City Hall was built in the early 20th century, the house was preserved through the generosity of Eva Smith Cochran and donated to New York State to serve as a historic site. Today, Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site provides visitors with a balanced approach to interpreting the lives of Indigenous, European, and African people to understand the complex relationships that took place at the Manor from the earliest days of the Dutch Colony of New Netherland to the American Revolution and beyond. Learn more at Philipse Manor Hall’s Virtual Wing at www.philipsemanorhall.com.
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