What was new on this site in November 2024
Updated the home page with a video of the full presentation given by Oliver Chamberlain, 29 September 2024: Gardens by Design: The formal and informal garden designs in works by Harold Caparn.”
Added a new video that shows the 2008 automobile parade, exhibition and prizegiving held to commemorate the centennial of the famous 1908 Briarcliff Trophy Race.
Added a new document: Official Program: 2nd Briarcliff Road-Race, November 11, 1934, to the Important Documents Page.
Added full video of the presentation given by Mr. Irwin Kavy, Wednesday, November 13th on the History of the Congregation Sons of Israel.
Added the .pdf version of the first issue of our email newsletter to the Newsletter page.
What was new on this site in October 2024
Added a slide show of our latest event: Gardens by Design: The formal and informal garden designs in works by Harold Caparn.
Added a video of an interview conducted by Karen Smith with Larry Reilly is a long-time resident of Briarcliff Manor to the home page and the Videos section.
We have now the complete (48 minute) video of Oliver Chamberlain’s presentation: Gardens by Design: The formal and informal garden designs in works by Harold Caparn
Added a new Notebook: The School of Practical Agriculture and Horticulture/Pocantico Lodge/Miss Knox's School - Notebook 2024 - 11
Added a new presentation: Walter Law from Rugs to Riches to the Events/News Page
Added 23 postcards featuring Mrs. Dow’s School (11 postcards) and Village Bands and Schools (12 postcards) to the Historical Postcards Gallery.
What was new on this site in September 2024
Added new Event: Gardens by Design: The formal and informal garden designs in works by Harold Caparn.
Added new featured image to the home page: Diploma from the School of Practical Agriculture and Horticulture awarded to Edward J. O’Shaughnessy, July 10 1902.
Redesigned the home page to give more prominence to Important Announcements.
Added a slide show of our latest event: Gardens by Design: The formal and informal garden designs in works by Harold Caparn.
What was new on this site in August 2024
Added a new Notebook in the Stories Section: Maurice LaCroix - Head Chef, The Briarcliff Lodge
Added a new Notebook in the Stories Section: A German World War II Spy in Briarcliff Manor
Changed the image associated with the Our Facilities section of the About page to more accurately represent how it looks today.
What was new on this site in July 2024
Added a new Gallery: Waldheim and the Speyers
Added a new Notebook: Briarcliff Manor and the Girl Scouts Movement, Part 1: Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon - Notebook 2024-7
Added a new Notebook: The Washburn House - Notebook 2024-8
Added two new Videos: BMSHS Annual Meeting, 2006 Parts I and II
What was new on this site in June 2024
Added two new issues of Briarcliff Outlook to the Important Documents Section.
Added a new document: Briarcliff Farms Bulletin No. VIII. January 1901. Presentation to Mr. Law by Employees of Briarcliff Farms to the Important Documents section.
What’s was New in May 2024
Added an indication that 2024 is our 50th Anniversary Year to the BMSHS Logo appearing on every page
Added a new document to the Important Documents Section: The Japanese Stone Lanterns of Briarcliff Manor, New York by Nathan Feist.
Added 25 color postcards of the Briarcliff Lodge to the Historical Postcards Gallery.
What was new in April 2024
Added Video: The Briarcliff Manor-Scarborough Historical Society: Where we are; Who we are; What we do to the home page.
Added a new gallery: Elderslie (former old Briarcliff Golf Course clubhouse) to the Gallery Section.
Added a new Notebook: Mr. Law We Need a Church.
Added a new event: “Movie showing: “The Birth of Saint Mary’s” to the Events/News Section.
Added a new Notebook: Rohde Ann Jones: Memories of my hometown and the Sharmans – always entwined together in my memory! Notebook 2024-5
Added link to the speaker notes for the presentation: “The Birth of Saint Mary’s” held at All Saints Church, 20 April 2024.
Added link to new video: The Birth of Saint Mary’s by Robert Gowen.
What was new in March 2024
Changed the featured image on the Home Page to one of Henry H. Law’s houses, Hillcrest at 80 Scarborough Road.
Added a new Gallery: Briarcliff’s Industrial Triangle to the Gallery section.
Added a new Notebook: The 1908 Briarcliff Trophy Race to the Stories Section
Added a new document: Walter William Law’s Briarcliff Manor by Edith Foldes to the Important Documents Section.
Added a new video: The BMSHS: Where we are; Who we are; What we do. to the Videos Section.
What was new in February 2024
Changed the featured image on the Home Page to one of the Briarcliff Manor Village Park - 1927.
Added a new Event: Mr. Law, we need a church! The stories of the community that made the Briarcliff Congregational Church. scheduled for 1:00pm, 17 February 2024 at The Briarcliff Manor Congregational Church. The presentation will be given by Pastor Todd Farnsworth.
Completed scanning/adding to the new Gallery: Photograph Collection donated by Mike Bassett in 2016 (Originally collected by Andrew Vosler). 84 historical photographs in all.
Added a new item (with text of presentation): Mr. Law, We need a Church to the Events section.
Added the full video (courtesy of the Briarcliff Manor Congregational Church) of the Mr. Law, We need a Church presentation to the Videos section.
Added Synopsis of the Incorporation of the Village of Briarcliff Manor, NY to the Important Documents Section.
What’s was new in January 2024
Changed featured image for January 2024 on Home Page to a 1908 map of Briarcliff Manor.
Added New Video: A Video Tour of the Briarcliff Lodge in the 1920s
Modified Stories Page. It now shows two sections: Notebooks and Videos. Moved two text-based reminiscences from former Reminiscences page to Notebooks Page.
Added new Gallery: Photograph Collection donated by Mike Bassett in 2016 (Originally collected by Andrew Vosler. Scanned and added 60 historical photographs (still more to come).
Added link to a new video: Quaint Home Clusters by Village resident and architect Michael Molinelli to the Videos page. The section starting around 3:33 minutes and ending around 6:41 minutes is concerned with Briarcliff Manor.
Added a link to a new video: The Kings College (Briarcliff Manor Campus) Revisited to the Videos Page.
What was new in December 2023?
Replaced home page featured image of a 1914 picture of the Police Force (motorized). With a photograph of a painting of Walter W. Law (the founder of Briarcliff Manor).
Added a new notebook: The Mystery of the Law Park Cannons to the Stories page.
Added a new notebook: ‘Twas the night before Christmas
What’s was new in November 2023?
Replaced home page featured image of Mrs. Dow's School with a 1914 picture of the Police Force (motorized).
Added full text (24 pages) of last week’s presentation: V. Everit Macy. A Man for All Good Reasons by Walter Schwartz.
Added a new gallery: V. Everit Macy. A Man for all good Reasons containing the 38 images Walter Schwartz showed at his presentation.
Added new page to the Main Menu: Links, providing links (40 and counting) to other history-related sites in the area.
Added New Document: A History of All Saints Church, Briarcliff 1854-1954 in the Important Documents Section
Added a New Story to the Notebooks Page: Whitsons Corners Materializes as Briarcliff Manor: A Guided Walk.
What’s was new in October 2023?
Added flyer on October 22 Presentation to be given by Walter Schwartz on V. Everit and Edith Carpenter Macy.
Posted Briarcliff Manor Centennial Variety Show video on the Reminiscences Page.
Changed featured image on the Home Page Image to Mrs Dow’s School/Briarcliff College.
Added a new gallery: Miscellaneous Historical Photographs in the Gallery section to accommodate photographs that don’t easily fit into the other galleries.
Added a new Notebook: St. Marys Episcopelian Church to the Stories page.
Added 2014 Chronology of Briarcliff Manor, by Alex Vastola to the Important Documents Page
What was new in September 2023?
Changed banner image on Home Page to Holbrook Military Academy 1866-1915 Mandolin Group.
Added 27 images (with captions) to the Arthur Slater Glass Plate Negative Collection
Updated About Page to include information about new Board Members (Officers and Trustees) along with a picture.
Scanned and added Briarcliff: Place of Schools, 1906 to the Important Documents Page.
Added 2023 Appeal Letter to Home Page
Added 2015 video: Dear Sandy - Historical Societies Add Value where New York Assemblywoman Sandy Galef speaks with BMSHS Executive Director and Briarcliff Manor Village Historian, Karen Smith and Jeff Canning.
Added to our Important Documents page, a new Trifold Brochure explaining the BMSHS mission, activities, location, as well as providing opportunities for internships and volunteering, contact information, and ways of contributing. If you have a printer capable of printing double sided, you can print the file (double sided, flip pages on short edge) and then fold.
What was new in August 2023?
Added Social Links to the Society’s Facebook and Instagram sites at the top and bottom of the home page.
Replaced incomplete copy of Robert Pattison’s 1939 “History of Briarcliff Manor” (originally found online, but missing pages) in the Historic Documents section, with a new scan of the complete original document that we recently unearthed.
Added a new Gallery: The Sandi Schneider Collection containing 30 black and white pictures of the Briarcliff Lodge during the 1920’s when it was leased by Walter W. Law to Chauncey Depew Steele, whose daughter Sandi Schneider gave them to the BMSHS in 2015.
Added a new video: Go to Blazes!, A 1929 film (converted to video) of the Briarcliff Manor Fire Department Responding to a call. Our thanks to Peter Guilmette who transferred the original film to digital media and provided us with a DVD.
In the website Main Menu changed Reflections under the Stories item to Reminiscences to more accurately reflect the content.
Added a search bar on all top-level pages.
Added a new Notebook for the recently deceased artist, Brice Marden who grew up in Briarcliff Manor, and whose family lived in Briarcliff and Ossining for more than 50 years.
Added a new document: Walter William Law 1837-1924. A Kidderminster Expatriate to New York by Bob Millward, Kidderminster and District and Archaeological and Historical Society to the Resource Page.
What was new in July 2023?
Added Five new notebooks: V. Everit Macy; A Brief History of Briarcliff Manor; The Story of the Stone Lanterns; John Kelvin Koelsch - Briarcliff’s own Medal of Honor winner; Harold Caparn, Landscape Architect
Added a featured image and description at the top of the home page. This will be changed every month.
Added a Resources page to make available full documents.
Added 13 back issues of BMHS Newsletters.
Added 4 presentations: The 1908 Road Race; Chains across the Hudson; The Law Park Cannons; Walter Law and his Mysterious Lanterns to the Events/News Section.
Added new Gallery featuring some of the 300 or more Historical Postcards in the BMSHS collection.
Moved The Story of Us video to the newly created Reflections section.
Moved the Newsletter section from the Main Menu to the Resources section.
Updated Notebook on The Leatherman with photographs of a possible cave where he died.
Improved the overall navigation, look and feel of the site to make it easier to use.
Removed out of date content.
Added this What’s New section to the Home Page.