History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 484
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] church in the place, this was intended to serve the double purpose of church and school-house. The house was removed to what is now called King Street Square, probably about the year 1810. The present house was built in 1S">3, remodeled and enlarged in 1867 and 1868. There was a school-house a few years since on Ban gent Street, where a small oilier now stands, not tar from the corner of Purchase Avenue. Here one Evans B. Hollis taught school some tifty years ago. He was an Englishman, and is said to have been an excellent teacher. He came to Rye from Sing Sing, and taught lirst for a while at the school near "Saw Pit." The school on Regent Street had existed long before Mr. Hollis' time. Shortly after the passage, in 1812, by the New York RYK <;<j:>