Glenview Mansion

Glenview Mansion, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the John Bond Trevor House, is a stone house on Warburton Avenue in Yonkers, New York, finished in 1877 to a design by the architect Charles W. Clinton. The financier John Bond Trevor built it as a small country estate close enough to Manhattan to let him commute by rail. Its load-bearing walls are rough-hewn local greystone with Ohio sandstone ornamentation, and an 84-foot tower with a belvedere rises on the south front. Newspapers of the day could not agree on its style, one calling it old English and another French chateau, and the design is described as eclectic Late Victorian. Inside, the Eastlake woodwork by the Philadelphia cabinetmaker Daniel Pabst is considered among the finest interiors in that style in an American building open to the public. The city of Yonkers bought the house in 1922, and it now forms part of the Hudson River Museum complex, whose brutalist 1969 building encloses it within a courtyard.