Books About Bronxville

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  • Morgan, Eloise L, editor.  Building a Suburban Village:  Bronxville, New York, 1898-1998.  Bronxville, NY:  Bronxville Centennial Celebration, Inc., 1998.  The best history of Bronxville, written at the time of the Village's 100th anniversary.  Well illustrated with historic photographs.  Proceeds from neighborhood to neighborhood through Bronxville, giving a thorough account of the development and character of each one; with short focus sections on notable architects who worked in Bronxville, and on other Village features; and with many newly drawn maps of sections of the Village.
  • Andrews, David T.  Built Upon a Rock:  The First 100 Years of Christ Church, Bronxville, New York.  Bronxville, NY:  Christ Church, Bronxville, 2004.
  • Andrews, Lucia Meigs.  Sketches of Lawrence Enterprises, 1888-1934.  Bronxville, NY:  privately printed, 1984.  A history of the business affairs of William Van Duzer Lawrence and his family as they related, primarily, to Bronxville.  Also includes chapters on the development of the Brooklands apartment complex in Yonkers, of the ill-fated Lawrence Farms development in northern Westchester County, and of the founding of Sarah Lawrence College.  Based on Lawrence family business archives.  The author is a granddaughter of William Van Duzer Lawrence and Sarah Lawrence.  
  • Comstock Anita Inman.  Bronxville in the Good Ol' Days.  Bronxville, NY:  privately printed, 1982.  A collection of the author's articles about Bronxville, published primarily in area newspapers and magazines, from 1970 to 1982.
  • Corry, John A., et. al., editors.  A Celebration:  The Reformed Church of Bronxville, 1850-2000.  Bronxville, NY:  William A. Raymond and Robert Seabring, 2000.  Written in fommemoration of the Reformed Church of Bronxville's 150th anniversary.
  • Cross, Wilbur III and Anita Inman Comstock, editors.  Bronxville, Views and Vignettes, 1898-1973.  Bronxville:  The Bronxville Diamond Jubilee Committee, 1974.  A collection of twenty-four illustrated essays, by nineteen authors, about aspects of Bronxville's history.
  • Keenan, Claudia.  Portrait of a Lighthouse School:  Public Education in Bronxville, New York.  Bronxville, NY:  The Bronxville School History Committee, 1997.  Focuses primarily on the period following Bronxville School's accreditation by New York State in 1922.  The term "lighthouse school" in the title identifies Bronxville School as one which was a leader in progressive education and served as a model to other schools.
  • Hill, Marilynn Wood and Mary Means Huber.  Around Bronxville.  Dover, NH:  Arcadia Publishing, 1997.  A fine collection of well-captioned photographs which relate aspects of Bronxville's history sometimes chronologically and sometimes according to themes.
  • Hoagland, Loretta.  Lawrence Park:  Bronxville's Turn-of-the-Century Art Colony.  Bronxville, NY:  Lawrence Park Hilltop Association, 1992.  A heavily illustrated history of Lawrence Park, the residential neighborhood developed by William Van Duzer Lawrence beginning in 1890.  "The Hilltop," as the development on Bronxville's Sunset Hill came to be called, was the beginning of the transformation of Bronxville from rural hamlet to suburban village.  The book emphasizes Lawrence Park's architecture and the artists and other creative people who lived in the park during its early decades. 
  • Lawrence, William Van Duzer.  A Diary and Reminiscences Portraying the Life and Times of the Author.  Bronxville, NY:  privately printed, 1922.  A revealing personal writing by the man who was, arguably, the founder of modern Bronxville.  Available in a reprint edition from Nabu Public Domain Reprints.
  • Mays, Victor.  Pathway to a Village:  A History of Bronxville.  Bronxville, NY:  Nebko Press, 1961.  A brief history of the Village, written for Bronxville School's middle school students.  Still useful despite many minor errors and several fictional interludes (which are well advertised and can be skipped over).
  • Morgan, Eloise L.  Bronxville Views: The Past in Picture Postcards.  Bronxville, NY:  Village of Bronxville, 2010.  A brief history of Bronxville told through and illustrated by historical postcards.  Many illustrations.
  • Morgan, Eloise L., editor.  Out of the Wilderness:  The Emergence of Eastchester, Tuckahoe and Bronxville, NY, 1664-2014.  An excellent history of the Town of Eastchester, featuring Bronxville prominently as one of the Town's components.  Written at the time of the Town's 350th anniversary.  Well-illustrated with historic documents and photographs, as well as maps and charts.
  • Walker, Mrs. Harry Leslie and LaMont A. Warner.  A History of the Reformed Church of Bronxville.  Bronxville, NY:  Consistory of the Reformed Church of Bronxville, 1951.  Written in commemoration of the Reformed Church of Bronxville's one hundredth anniversary.

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