Sunnyside (Tarrytown, New York)
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Sunnyside
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| Location | West Sunnyside Lane Tarrytown, New York |
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| Nearest city | White Plains |
| Coordinates | 41°02′51.2″N 73°52′11.6″W / 41.047556°N 73.869889°WCoordinates: 41°02′51.2″N 73°52′11.6″W / 41.047556°N 73.869889°W |
| Area | 10 acres (4 ha) |
| Built | 1835 |
| Architect | George Harvey |
| Architectural style | Dutch Colonial Revival, Scottish Gothic, Tudor Revival, Romantic |
| NRHP Reference # | 66000583 |
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| Added to NRHP | October 15, 1966 |
| Designated NHL | December 29, 1962 |
Sunnyside (1835) is a historic house on 10 acres (4 ha) along the Hudson River in Tarrytown, New York. It was the home of the noted American author Washington Irving (1783–1859), best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820). It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1962.
This cottage-like estate shows Dutch Colonial Revival, Scottish Gothic and Tudor Revival influences, with its instantly recognizable wisteria-covered entrance and jagged crow-stepped gable.
In some sense, Sunnyside began almost 200 years before Irving with Wolfert Acker (sometimes spelled Wolfert Eckert), a Dutch-American inhabitant of the region. His property, "Wolfert's Roost", was part of the Manor of Philipsburg; among other buildings, it contained a simple two-room stone tenant farmhouse, built around 1690. The property came into the hands of the Van Tassel family who were married into the Eckert family and who owned it until 1802. That year, 150 acres (61 ha) were deeded to the family of Benson Ferris, one-time clerk of the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow, whose wife, Maria Acker, was a descendant of Wolfert Acker.
In 1832, Washington Irving visited his nephew Oscar Irving who lived near the old stone farmhouse. Irving had recently undertaken a substantial trip through the prairies of the Arkansas River and Mississippi River and the frontier lifestyle made him lament his lack of a home of his own. He was also frustrated because he had lived most of his adult life as a guest in other people's homes. As Irving wrote, he was eager for a home and was "willing to pay a little unreasonably for it". Irving finally purchased the property on June 7, 1835 for $1,800; he would later, through the years, add to the property to expand the estate.
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