Lyndhurst
Lyndhurst, also known as the Jay Gould estate, is a Gothic Revival country house that sits in its own 67-acre (27 ha) park beside the Hudson River in Tarrytown, New York, about a half mile south of the Tappan Zee Bridge on US 9.
Lyndhurst, also known as the Jay Gould estate, is a Gothic Revival country house that sits in its own 67-acre (27 ha) park beside the Hudson River in Tarrytown, New York, about a half mile south of the Tappan Zee Bridge on US 9. The estate was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966. One of the best-preserved examples of 19th-century American decorative arts, architecture, and landscaping, it is part of Westchester County's historical Millionaires' Row.
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Worth seeing in and around Lyndhurst
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Armour-Stiner House
The Armour–Stiner House is an octagon-shaped and domed Victorian-style house located at 45 West Clinton Avenue in Irvington, in Westchester County, New York. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
2.6 km · historic house in Irvington, New York, United States · Wikipedia - 02Sunnyside
Sunnyside is a historic house built in 1835 on 10 acres along the Hudson River, in Tarrytown, New York. It was the home of the American author Washington Irving, best known for his short stories, such as "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".
700 m · historic house in Tarrytown, New York, United States · Wikipedia - 03Mercy University
Mercy University, previously known as Mercy College, is a private research university in Dobbs Ferry, New York, United States, with additional locations in Manhattan and the Bronx. It is a federally-designated minority-serving institution and the largest private Hispanic-Serving Institution in the state of New York.
3.6 km · university in Dobbs Ferry, USA · Wikipedia - 04Tarrytown Light
Tarrytown Light, also known as Kingsland Point Light and Sleepy Hollow Light, is a sparkplug lighthouse on the east side of the Hudson River in Sleepy Hollow, New York, United States. It a conical steel structure erected in the 1880s.
3.4 km · lighthouse in New York, United States · Wikipedia - 05Christ Episcopal Church
Christ Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 43 South Broadway in Tarrytown, New York. Topped by a modest tower, the ivy-covered red brick church was built in 1837 and maintains an active congregation to the present day.
2.4 km · church building in Tarrytown, New York, United States · Wikipedia - 06Philipsburg Manor House
Philipsburg Manor House is a historic site in the Upper Mills section of the former sprawling Colonial-era estate known as Philipsburg Manor. Together with a water mill and trading site, the house is operated as a non-profit museum by Historic Hudson Valley.
3.8 km · historic house in New York, United States · Wikipedia - 07McVickar House
The McVickar House is located at 131 Main Street in Irvington, New York, United States. It is a wooden frame house built in the middle of the 19th century in the Greek Revival architectural style with some Picturesque decorative touches added later.
1.7 km · historic house in New York, United States · Wikipedia - 08Church of St. Barnabas
The Church of St. Barnabas is an Episcopal house of worship in Irvington, New York, United States.
1.6 km · church in Irvington, New York · Wikipedia - 09First Baptist Church of Tarrytown
The First Baptist Church of Tarrytown is located on South Broadway in Tarrytown, New York, United States. It is a stone building in the Victorian Gothic architectural style dating to the 1870s.
2.4 km · church building in Tarrytown, United States of America · Wikipedia - 10Lord & Burnham Building
The Lord & Burnham Building, located at the corner of Main and Astor Streets in Irvington, New York, United States, is a brick building in the Queen Anne architectural style built in the 1880s. In 1999 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and was added as a contributing property to the Irvington Historic District in 2014.
1.7 km · building in Irvington, New York, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to Lyndhurst
- Airports
- LaGuardia (LGA), 31 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 47 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 48 km
- Stations
- Ardsley-on-Hudson, 3.1 km
- New York → Lyndhurst15 km · quickest by road, 42 min · $2–2.5
- Newark → Lyndhurst9 km · quickest by road, 21 min · $1
- Hartford → Lyndhurst160 km · quickest by road, 3h 22m · $15–21
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Lyndhurst
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Lyndhurst. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe village is the meeting point of the A35, which runs NE to SW between Southampton and Bournemouth, and the A337 which runs north to south between Cadnam on the M27, and Lymington, a ferry port for the Isle of Wight on the south coast.
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Next door to Lyndhurst
Lyndhurst is 23 km from The Bronx, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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