In 1SS2, boring blockhouse, to be used in case of an original buildthe of erection presumed two hundred years after the ing, the Manor House, renamed Manor Hall, after having been put inl state of permanent preservation, Avas formally dedicated to the uses of the City of Yonkers as a municipal building. built,1 Castle Philipse, on the Pocantico, was also very substantially and possessed a feature entirely lacking in the Manor House, being Its walls were pierced with carefully fortified to resist attack. in well known F. Minnerly, William .Mi Tarrytown as a builder, states that in 1864 he the in alterations some make to was Vmplovod One was in House. Manor old (Pocantico) was very which the chimney, Hkin* Lvn that a found he story second the In arge oom about four feet square had been built in for smoke-house a as used be to chimney he ■" n at The number of bricks in this mok been all had They marvel. a ;. , n U was , „m-ht from Holland, and landed on the north shore of the Pocantico, very near the old mill. objects on the manor. one of the prominent was The portion of the chimney taken down relaid with the bricks, Ave feet breast, sixteen

inches deep, to the same height as before, and a new partition built, fifteen feet long and nine feet high. The remainder of the bricks that came out of the chimney-tor. strange to say, there was a remainder, and a large one. and with them he Minnerly bought too-Mr. tilled in a new house, twenty-two feet front . bj feet deep and two stories high, twenty-eight for the purand found them amply sufficientthat when the pose. The bricks were so hard masons who did the work wished to cut them In size, liged to use a hatchet they wer each brick was an inch and a garter thicl. seven and wide, inches one-halt three and inches Iong.-ScMrf, n., o09.