Philipse Manor Hall building

Programs and Events

Historical Games

October 4, 2025 12:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us for an afternoon of family-friendly programs, free for everyone!

Morning Hatha Yoga

October 5, 2025 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us in the beautiful Gothic Chamber for morning mat yoga with instructor Berto.

Exhibit: Takings: A History of Land Disputes Along the Croton Aqueduct

October 8, 2025 10:00 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

This exhibit, based on new research, examines the role of eminent domain and landowner rights in the construction of the original Croton Aqueduct.

Lecture: Clearing Iroquoia

October 8, 2025 7:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us for this special talk with the authors of the new book, "Clearing Iroquoia: New York's Land Grab in the 1779 Campaigns of the American Revolution." 

Revolutionary Yonkers Walking Tour

October 11, 2025 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us for this special 2.5 mile walking tour which explores the Revolutionary War connections to downtown Yonkers.

Morning Hatha Yoga

October 12, 2025 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us in the beautiful Gothic Chamber for morning mat yoga with instructor Berto.

Friends of Philipse Manor Hall Annual Meeting

October 16, 2025 6:30 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join the Friends of Philipse Manor Hall as they look ahead to 2026. With vocal performance by Mikhail Svetlov.

Yonkers Tea Party

October 18, 2025 12:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join Revolutionary Yonkers 250 at Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site for this special program around the tea parties of New York and Westchester County during the American Revolution.

Morning Hatha Yoga

October 19, 2025 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us in the beautiful Gothic Chamber for morning mat yoga with instructor Berto.

Library Lecture: "She-Merchants, Sachems, and Slaves: Women in Colonial New York"

October 21, 2025 6:30 PM
Boardman Road Branch, Poughkeepsie Public Library, 141 Boardman Road Poughkeepsie, NY 12603

Join us at the Boardman Road Branch of the Poughkeepsie Public Library for this special in-person with PMH's own Sarah Wassberg Johnson.

Family Halloween Day

October 25, 2025 10:00 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Get spooky with the whole family! Come to Philipse Manor Hall in your costume to trick-or-treat at the front desk, then go upstairs to the Gothic Chamber for historical Halloween crafts and watch Disney’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (1949) cartoon.

Historian & a Movie: Sleepy Hollow (1999)

October 25, 2025 2:30 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us for a spooky Hollywood take on Washington Irving's Sleepy Hollow, with historian commentary.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Lecture: Clearing Iroquoia

October 8, 2025 7:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us for this special talk with the authors of the new book, "Clearing Iroquoia: New York's Land Grab in the 1779 Campaigns of the American Revolution." 

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Lecture: Aspects of Emancipation: Quakers, War, and Runaways in Westchester County

November 12, 2025 7:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Historian Peter Bunten examines three iterations of the effort by enslaved people to gain their freedom in 1700s Westchester County.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Virtual Library Lecture: Spilling the Tea

November 13, 2025 6:30 PM

Join us online with the Poughkeepsie Public Library for "Spilling the Tea" with PMH's own Sarah Wassberg Johnson.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Historical Games

October 4, 2025 12:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us for an afternoon of family-friendly programs, free for everyone!

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Morning Hatha Yoga

October 5, 2025 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us in the beautiful Gothic Chamber for morning mat yoga with instructor Berto.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Exhibit: Takings: A History of Land Disputes Along the Croton Aqueduct

October 8, 2025 10:00 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

This exhibit, based on new research, examines the role of eminent domain and landowner rights in the construction of the original Croton Aqueduct.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Lecture: Clearing Iroquoia

October 8, 2025 7:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us for this special talk with the authors of the new book, "Clearing Iroquoia: New York's Land Grab in the 1779 Campaigns of the American Revolution." 

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Revolutionary Yonkers Walking Tour

October 11, 2025 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us for this special 2.5 mile walking tour which explores the Revolutionary War connections to downtown Yonkers.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Morning Hatha Yoga

October 12, 2025 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us in the beautiful Gothic Chamber for morning mat yoga with instructor Berto.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Friends of Philipse Manor Hall Annual Meeting

October 16, 2025 6:30 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join the Friends of Philipse Manor Hall as they look ahead to 2026. With vocal performance by Mikhail Svetlov.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Yonkers Tea Party

October 18, 2025 12:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join Revolutionary Yonkers 250 at Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site for this special program around the tea parties of New York and Westchester County during the American Revolution.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Morning Hatha Yoga

October 19, 2025 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us in the beautiful Gothic Chamber for morning mat yoga with instructor Berto.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Library Lecture: "She-Merchants, Sachems, and Slaves: Women in Colonial New York"

October 21, 2025 6:30 PM
Boardman Road Branch, Poughkeepsie Public Library, 141 Boardman Road Poughkeepsie, NY 12603

Join us at the Boardman Road Branch of the Poughkeepsie Public Library for this special in-person with PMH's own Sarah Wassberg Johnson.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Family Halloween Day

October 25, 2025 10:00 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Get spooky with the whole family! Come to Philipse Manor Hall in your costume to trick-or-treat at the front desk, then go upstairs to the Gothic Chamber for historical Halloween crafts and watch Disney’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” (1949) cartoon.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Historian & a Movie: Sleepy Hollow (1999)

October 25, 2025 2:30 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us for a spooky Hollywood take on Washington Irving's Sleepy Hollow, with historian commentary.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Lecture: Spaces of Enslavement and Resistance in Dutch New York

May 10, 2023 7:00 PM

In her presentation, Andrea Mosterman will explore the history of slavery and resistance in Dutch New York. Through examination of Dutch American homes, Dutch Reformed churches, and public spaces in these predominantly Dutch American communities...

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Pinkster Festival

May 20, 2023 10:00 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Pinkster Festival, an Afro-Dutch colonial celebration of spring, family, and culture. Join us for African music and dance, games, food, vendors, and fun. FREE.

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Lecture: Banastre Tarleton & The War Around Westchester, 1778-1779

June 14, 2023 7:00 PM

Even casual students of the American Revolution are familiar with the name Banastre Tarleton. Images of a dashing young British cavalryman leading a band of green-clad Loyalist cavalrymen sweeping through the south until checked and defeated by...

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Panel - Before Juneteenth: New York's Reluctance To End Slavery

June 18, 2023 2:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Juneteenth is the celebration of the last announcement of the Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery, delivered June 19, 1865 in Texas. But how did slavery end in New York? It’s complicated!

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Loyalist or Patriot

July 29, 2023 11:00 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Whose side are you on? During the American Revolution, the Philipses were staunch Loyalists. The Hudson Valley was the site of fierce fighting between the Patriots and the British during the Revolutionary War...

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Lecture: Unfriendly to Liberty: Loyalist Networks and the Coming of the American Revolution in New York City

September 13, 2023 7:00 PM

Most histories of the American Revolution focus on those who became “patriots,” or revolutionaries. The standard narrative tracks their activism from the mid-1760s until the Battles of Lexington and Concord. This story, however, misunderstands...

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Harvest Festival

September 23, 2023 12:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Moved Indoors! Step back in time to the late 18th century! This free family-friendly outdoor festival will feature costumed reenactors and hands-on activities.

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Lecture: Friendship and Bloodshed: The Brief and Complicated History of the Dutch- Native Wars, 1643-1664

October 11, 2023 7:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Diplomacy, trade, corn taxes, burned long houses – the history of Dutch-Indigenous relations in the New Netherland colony is complicated.

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Lecture: People of the Opossum: Tracing the Ethnogenesis of the Wappinger People over the Past Five Centuries

November 8, 2023 7:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us for a presentation on the local Wappinger People, a distinct Lenape group of the Hudson Highlands. This presentation explores the amalgamation of Lenape groups around New York Bay and in the Hudson Highlands, their transformation...

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Lecture: The Romances of Philipse Manor Hall

February 14, 2024 7:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY

Margaret and Frederick. Frederick and Catherine. Eva and Jacobus. Philip and Maria. Frederick II and Joanna. Susannah and Beverly. Frederick III and Elizabeth. Mary and George. Mary and Roger. Rebecca and Lemuel. Over a period of two hundred and fifty years, all these couples had ties to Philipse Manor Hall.

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Lecture: The Land in Controversy

March 13, 2024 7:00 PM

In the mid-1760s what is now Putnam County became a literal and figurative battleground as Wappinger Indians, colonial tenant farmers, and Philipse family landlords fought over the past, present, and future of these lands.

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Old New Years Eve

March 22, 2024 6:30 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Party like it's 1751! Join us for this fun and informal fundraiser for the Friends of Philipse Manor Hall.