Philipse Manor Hall building

Programs and Events

Historical Games: Shut the Box

March 28, 2024 12:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Learn something new over spring break! Try your hand at "Shut the Box" - a fast-paced game for all ages.

Scavenger Hunt Bingo

March 29, 2024 12:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Beat the spring break blues with historical games and scavenger hunt bingo! Fun for all ages.

Morning Hatha Yoga

March 31, 2024 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us for this Sunday morning Hatha yoga series at Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site! The beautiful sunlit Gothic Chamber is the perfect place for a morning yoga class.

Historian & A Movie: "Hello, Dolly!"

April 5, 2024 7:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Yonkers “half-a-millionaire” Horace Vandergelder is looking for a wife. Famous matchmaker Dolly Levi is just the person to find him one...

Historical Games

April 6, 2024 12:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

How did people entertain themselves in the past? Join us indoors (outdoors, weather-permitting) at Philipse Manor Hall to try your hand at all kinds of historical games.

Morning Hatha Yoga

April 7, 2024 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us for this Sunday morning Hatha yoga series at Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site! The beautiful sunlit Gothic Chamber is the perfect place for a morning yoga class.

Lecture: A Billion Years of Hudson Valley History

April 10, 2024 7:00 PM

The Hudson Valley tells a unique story of over a billion years of landscape evolution. This story is written in the rocks, hills, and valleys we live in; tales of an incredible transformation of land that was once situated at the equator...

Springtime Forest Art Workshop

April 13, 2024 1:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 101701

Join us for this free, family-friendly workshop where you will learn a variety of art techniques to create your own springtime tree portrait.

Morning Hatha Yoga

April 14, 2024 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us for this Sunday morning Hatha yoga series at Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site! The beautiful sunlit Gothic Chamber is the perfect place for a morning yoga class.

Waterfront Walking Tour

April 20, 2024 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Why was Philipse Manor Hall built where it was? Why did the Munsee have a village in downtown Yonkers for thousands of years? How did the Yonkers waterfront change over time?

Historical Games

April 20, 2024 12:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

How did people entertain themselves in the past? Join us indoors (outdoors, weather-permitting) at Philipse Manor Hall to try your hand at all kinds of historical games.

Morning Hatha Yoga

April 21, 2024 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us for this Sunday morning Hatha yoga series at Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site! The beautiful sunlit Gothic Chamber is the perfect place for a morning yoga class.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Lecture: A Billion Years of Hudson Valley History

April 10, 2024 7:00 PM

The Hudson Valley tells a unique story of over a billion years of landscape evolution. This story is written in the rocks, hills, and valleys we live in; tales of an incredible transformation of land that was once situated at the equator...

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Lecture: Spilling the Tea: A History of Tea Drinking in New York State

June 12, 2024 7:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

How did a beverage developed in Asia make its way to the shores of the Hudson River? Why do Americans sweeten their tea? How did tea drinking affect culture and commerce?

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Historical Games: Shut the Box

March 28, 2024 12:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Learn something new over spring break! Try your hand at "Shut the Box" - a fast-paced game for all ages.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Scavenger Hunt Bingo

March 29, 2024 12:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Beat the spring break blues with historical games and scavenger hunt bingo! Fun for all ages.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Morning Hatha Yoga

March 31, 2024 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us for this Sunday morning Hatha yoga series at Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site! The beautiful sunlit Gothic Chamber is the perfect place for a morning yoga class.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Historian & A Movie: "Hello, Dolly!"

April 5, 2024 7:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Yonkers “half-a-millionaire” Horace Vandergelder is looking for a wife. Famous matchmaker Dolly Levi is just the person to find him one...

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Historical Games

April 6, 2024 12:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

How did people entertain themselves in the past? Join us indoors (outdoors, weather-permitting) at Philipse Manor Hall to try your hand at all kinds of historical games.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Morning Hatha Yoga

April 7, 2024 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us for this Sunday morning Hatha yoga series at Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site! The beautiful sunlit Gothic Chamber is the perfect place for a morning yoga class.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Springtime Forest Art Workshop

April 13, 2024 1:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 101701

Join us for this free, family-friendly workshop where you will learn a variety of art techniques to create your own springtime tree portrait.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Morning Hatha Yoga

April 14, 2024 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us for this Sunday morning Hatha yoga series at Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site! The beautiful sunlit Gothic Chamber is the perfect place for a morning yoga class.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Waterfront Walking Tour

April 20, 2024 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Why was Philipse Manor Hall built where it was? Why did the Munsee have a village in downtown Yonkers for thousands of years? How did the Yonkers waterfront change over time?

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Historical Games

April 20, 2024 12:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

How did people entertain themselves in the past? Join us indoors (outdoors, weather-permitting) at Philipse Manor Hall to try your hand at all kinds of historical games.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

Morning Hatha Yoga

April 21, 2024 10:30 AM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

Join us for this Sunday morning Hatha yoga series at Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site! The beautiful sunlit Gothic Chamber is the perfect place for a morning yoga class.

Philipse Manor Hall building.

What's A Yonker?

April 21, 2024 2:00 PM
29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701

In honor of Dutch-American Friendship Day, master storyteller Jonathan Kruk brings to life stories of the “First American,” Adriaen Van Der Donck, and how Yonkers got its name...

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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.