Philipse Manor Hall building

Programs and Events

Yonkers Black History Walking Tour

September 20, 2025 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Explore 400 years of African and African-descended people in downtown Yonkers on this 2.5 mile urban hike!

RevFest 250

September 27, 2025 11:00 AM
Croton Point Park, Croton-on-Hudson, NY

Join Philipse Manor Hall at Westchester County's RevFest 250 at Croton Point Park!

RevFest 250

September 28, 2025 11:00 AM
Croton Point Park, Croton-on-Hudson, NY

Join Philipse Manor Hall at Westchester County's RevFest 250 at Croton Point Park!

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.

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.

CreArt Box Live in Concert

November 16, 2025 3:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers NY 10701

CreArt Box, co-founded by Josefina Urraca and Guillermo Laporta, is a leading force in the world of classical and contemporary music and a hub of creativity in New York City.

St. Nicholas Day Celebration 2025

December 6, 2025 12:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us for a visit from St. Nicholas himself, historical games, ornament crafts, gingerbread decorating, live music, and more!

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.

Yonkers Black History Walking Tour

September 20, 2025 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Explore 400 years of African and African-descended people in downtown Yonkers on this 2.5 mile urban hike!

Philipse Manor Hall building.

RevFest 250

September 27, 2025 11:00 AM
Croton Point Park, Croton-on-Hudson, NY

Join Philipse Manor Hall at Westchester County's RevFest 250 at Croton Point Park!

Philipse Manor Hall building.

RevFest 250

September 28, 2025 11:00 AM
Croton Point Park, Croton-on-Hudson, NY

Join Philipse Manor Hall at Westchester County's RevFest 250 at Croton Point Park!

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.

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.

CreArt Box Live in Concert

November 16, 2025 3:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers NY 10701

CreArt Box, co-founded by Josefina Urraca and Guillermo Laporta, is a leading force in the world of classical and contemporary music and a hub of creativity in New York City.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

St. Nicholas Day Celebration 2025

December 6, 2025 12:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us for a visit from St. Nicholas himself, historical games, ornament crafts, gingerbread decorating, live music, and more!

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.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

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...

Philipse Manor Hall building.

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!

Philipse Manor Hall building.

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...

Philipse Manor Hall building.

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...

Philipse Manor Hall building.

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.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

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.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

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...

Philipse Manor Hall building.

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.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

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.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

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.