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A History of the County of Westchester, Vol. I — Passage 91

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[Robert Bolton, Jr. (1848)] » Downing's Rural Architecture, 335. 192 HISTORY OF THE Above the peaked turret of the portal, pttters a horse in full gallop, once the weathercock of the great Van der Hydeii palace at Albany; the other upon the eastern gable formerly surmount-ed the Stadt House of New Amsterdam. The interior is in perfect harmony with the exterior design of this quaint and venerable edifice. In the. library are preserved the elbow chair and writing desk of Diedrich Knickerbocker. ?unny Side, the residence of the Eon. Washington Irving. " Van Tassel House" occupies the site of " Wolfert's Roost," which was built by Wolfert Ecker, an ancient Dutch burgher of this town.

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