![]() ![]() : 153 In 1892 Shepard ordered the construction of Scarborough's first dock (at the present Scarborough Park) to allow construction materials to be shipped to his property. Construction on the mansion began in 1892, and it was completed in 1895. Colonel Elliott Fitch Shepard came to the Briarcliff area in the early 1890s, : 158 and having purchased the house and its 500-acre (0.8 sq mi) property, ordered construction of the existing house and improvements to the grounds. : 161 The current property was originally made up of various farms. Wright's Victorian house, of painted brick with porches and a high tower on one end, : 158 was later renamed the Villa. Butler Wright (son of Benjamin Wright), who lived there and called it Woodlea it dates to around 1806. The mansion retained the name of a former house of J. Sleepy Hollow's clubhouse was once a private residence named Woodlea. Perkins, Moses Taylor, Oakleigh Thorne, and Frank Vanderlip : 59–60 notable current members include Bill Murray, James Patterson, and several members of the Rockefeller family. The clubhouse, which is open through every season of the year, sits on a wide central plateau. The club property surrounds Saint Mary's Episcopal Church on three sides and slopes upwards east from U.S. The club's gross revenue is $12 million of it, $2.5 million is from food and beverage sales. The stables have a tack room, fifty stalls, and two indoor arenas, and they host the Sleepy Hollow Stable and Riding Academy. The club currently has 570 members, and a staff consisting of 60 year-round employees and 200 during the height of the season. The clubhouse has three dining rooms, and altogether the club can hold 400 guests. ![]() Youth activities include golf, tennis, squash and riding. Facilities include the main clubhouse, a pool complex, ten Har-Tru tennis courts, four aluminum heated platform tennis courts, four squash courts, eighteen guest rooms, skeet and trap areas, a 45-horse boarding facility, twenty paddocks, a large indoor riding arena, pro shops for golf and paddle sports, a fitness complex, the golf course and practice range (non-contributing), outdoor riding rings, stables, and a carriage house. The club currently has 338 acres (0.5 sq mi) and a 27-hole golf course with tree-limb footbridges. ![]() The house has between 65,000 and 70,000 square feet (6,039 and 6,503 m 2) of interior space, making it one of the largest privately owned houses in the United States. The interior also has significant features, including marble fireplaces, coffered ceilings, and extensive carved wood and plaster detail. The main entrance is on the building's south, directly approached from the south drive. The house's west facade is the longest and most ornate, and has a view of the Hudson River from its west-facing windows and adjoining terrace. The south and west facades are symmetrical, but the overall plan of the house is not. The building's facades are composed primarily of buff-colored Italian brick. Woodlea's exterior was designed in an Italian Renaissance Revival style, incorporating Beaux-Arts details. It was built in 1892–95 at a cost of $2 million ($65.1 million in 2022 ) and was designed by the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White the estate became a contributing property to the Scarborough Historic District (on the National Register of Historic Places) in 1984. The club was founded in 1911, and its clubhouse was known as Woodlea, a 140-room Vanderbilt mansion owned by Colonel Elliott Fitch Shepard and his wife Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard. Sleepy Hollow Country Club is a historic country club in Scarborough-on-Hudson in Briarcliff Manor, New York. ![]() Scarborough Historic District ( ID84003433 ) ![]()
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