History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 100
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY. for several years lie died, and the property now be-longs to his estate. In the same general inclosure with the Orinnell housestands, a little farther north, the former residence of the late Henry Holdredge, whose wife was a niece of Mr. Grinnell. The next place, called " The Homestead," extend-ing from the Croton Aqueduct on the west to Broad-way on the east, was the residence of the late Henry R. Worthington, and is still occupied by his family. The house was built in 183o by Benson Ferris, father of Benson Ferris, now president of the savings-bank, to provide for himself a home about the time he sold his place known as " Wolfert's Roost " to Washing-ton Irving. Lying contiguous to it on the north are the beauti-ful grounds of Mr. Roswell Skeel. The brick man-sion, situated on an eminence somewhat in from Broadway, commands a fine view of the Hudson