This small Hudson River hillside cottage at the end of Cabrini Blvd used to be on a dirt road that led to the grand Tryon Hall estate of CKG Billings. Designed to be the gatekeeper’s cottage for Mr. Billings, it was finished in 1908 and since then, has housed gatekeepers and their families, park managers and is now the headquarters of the Fort Tryon Park Trust and NYC Parks-Northern Manhattan. Come see the log books; native cherry wood; the original 1935 map by the Olmsted Brothers of the park picnic plaza; and the basement door the gatekeeper would exit to open the gate on Riverside Park, where the pillars still stand. **Sunday Tours:** 12 & 1:15pm Capacity 20, first-come, first-served.
This small Hudson River hillside cottage at the end of Cabrini Blvd used to be on a dirt road that led to the grand Tryon Hall estate of CKG Billings. Designed to be the gatekeeper’s cottage for Mr. Billings, it was finished in 1908 and since then, has housed gatekeepers and their families, park managers and is now the headquarters of the Fort Tryon Park Trust and NYC Parks-Northern Manhattan. Come see the log books; native cherry wood; the original 1935 map by the Olmsted Brothers of the park picnic plaza; and the basement door the gatekeeper would exit to open the gate on Riverside Park, where the pillars still stand.
Sunday Tours: 12 & 1:15pm
Up to 20 people, first-come, first-served.
The cottage yard is wheelchair accessible but the cottage itself is not.
1908; Guy Lowell
741 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, NY 10040