[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] Philipse built of this house, as we now have it, only reached from the south front to the south side of the present east and west hall. Ex-amination of the framing beneath this hall gives in-dication that the space it occupies was, previous to the addition of 1745, taken up with an outside portico 1 Bolton has three passages on this subject : — In vol. i. pp. 510, 611, he says, " l"pon the east bank of the Pocantico Philipse built his first manorial residence, which, on account of its great strength and armament, was called Castle Philipse. There the first lord of the manor lived in rugged feudal style until the lower house was built at Yonkers." In vol. i. p. 531, speaking of f'astle Philipse, he says, — " The western end of the building is evidently the remains of a much older edifice, prob-ably coeval with the erection of a mill in 108:1." In vol. ii. p. 032, speaking of our Yonkers manor-house, he says, — " The present front was erected in 1745. The rear is reported to have been built soon after the Philipse family purchased here in 1682, although the favorite residence at first appears to have been Castle Philipse, in Sleepy Hollow." All these passages answer themselves. 1. They assume that the first lord lived at Tarrytown first and at Yon-kers later. The contrary is known to have been the fact.