Untermyer Park
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Untermyer Park
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| Location | 945 North Broadway Yonkers, New York |
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| Coordinates | 40°58′0″N 73°53′16″W / 40.96667°N 73.88778°WCoordinates: 40°58′0″N 73°53′16″W / 40.96667°N 73.88778°W |
| Area | 16 acres (6.5 ha) |
| Built | 1899 |
| Architect | William W. Bosworth and Charles Wellford Leavitt |
| Architectural style | Beaux Arts |
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| Added to NRHP | May 31, 1974 |
Untermyer Park (also known as Untermyer Gardens, previously part of an estate known as "Greystone") is a historic park of 43 acres, situated in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, just north of New York City. Untermyer Park is on a hillside above the Hudson River and features a "Grecian garden" (actually a Persian Paradise garden), a small Grecian-style amphitheater, a classical pavilion, pergola, statuary, a rock and water feature called the "Temple of Love" and a "Vista" staircase. To the West, the park has views of the Hudson River and the Palisades.
The gardens were developed during the first 40 years of the 20th century, when the area now enclosed by the park was less than a third of an 150-acre site that was the estate of the lawyer and civic leader Samuel Untermyer. The 150-acre estate was known as "Greystone".
"Greystone" was previously owned by the defeated Presidential candidate Samuel Tilden, winner of the popular vote in 1876. Untermyer purchased "Greystone" when Tilden died in 1899. When Untermyer himself died in 1940, he had hoped to donate the whole estate to the Nation, or the State of New York or at least to the City of Yonkers. Eventually the city of Yonkers agreed to accept part of the estate; this parcel of land, which was the core of the gardens, was renamed Untermyer Park in his honor. The Park was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
The land that is now known as Untermyer Park was originally part of a large (150 acre) estate known as "Greystone", which had first been set up in 1864 by John T. Waring, a hat manufacturer. In 1879 Waring sold the estate to Samuel J. Tilden (1814-1886). Tilden died at "Greystone" on August 4, 1886.
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