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Sherwood House

Yonkers, US

Sherwood House

Sherwood House is a historic home located at Yonkers, Westchester County, New York. The house sits on a 2.2-acre plot and is known as one of the few remaining pre-Revolutionary War tenant farmhouses in the New York metropolitan area. Its simple, practical design is probably of Dutch origin. Also on

the property is a 1+1⁄2-story frame caretaker's cottage and a barn. Both were built about 1840. The house was built in 1740 near an old Native American trail by Thomas Sherwood, who leased a 25-acre farm on Philipsburg Manor. It is a three-story frame structure on an exposed basement built into a hillside. It features a two-story porch spanning the entire facade and two Dutch doors. In 1776, General George Washington widened the trail adjacent to Sherwood House to accommodate the passage of the Continental Army. It is likely that Thomas, who supported the revolutionary cause, assisted with the process, especially as it went right past the house, and the wider road would be beneficial to the farm. Washington personally inspected the road, passing by the Sherwood Farm. (This trail would eventually become the present-day Tuckahoe Road between the city of Yonkers and the village of Tuckahoe...

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