Landmarks ?reservation Commission Oc-tober 12, 1982, Designation List 160 LP-1213

McFARLANE-BREDT HOUSE (former New York Yacht Club), 30 Rylan Boulevard. Borough of Staten Island. Built c.l845.

Landmark Site: Borough of Staten Island Tax Map Block 2830, Lot 49, in part, consist­ ing of the land which formerly comprised Lot 40.

On September 9, 1980, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public hear­ ing on the proposed designation as a Landmark of the McFarlane-Bredt House (former New York Yacht Club) and the proposed designation of the related Landmark Site (Item No. 10). The hearing was duly advertised in accordance with the provisions of law. Five witnesses spoke in favor of designation. There were no speakers in opposition to designation.

DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS

The house at 30 Rylan Boulevard, known as the McFarlane-Bredt house, is an early Victorian country villa built in the early 1840s. Its site, a broad elliptical mound on Staten Island's north shore, faces northeast and commands a magnificent view across the Narrows to New York harbor. Built as private residence, it served for three years (1868-1871) as the clubhouse of the New York Yacht Club and became the second home of that organization. "-Thile headquartered in Clifton, the club first successfully defended the America's Cup, the world's foremost yachting event. The house built for Henry and Anne McFarlane, shortly after they purchased the property in 1841, was a long, low, two-story, clapboard-covered, wooden-framed cottage with brick-filled walls designed to resemble an Italian-Swiss villa, a short lived style which rose to popularity in the 1840s along with the diminutive Greek temple and the board-and-batten Gothic cottage in an era when awakening literary tastes decreed that domestic architecture should be "romantic." If an architect designed the house for the McFarlanes, he remains unknown. McFarlane himself was an early developer of Staten Island. Clifton, the location of the house, was one of Staten Island's early romantic s:uburbs. A map dated January 1846, shows the McFarlane house as originally built with a wide two-story central bay fronted by a broad veranda, facing the Narrows.l Also shown are an ice-house, a gardener's cottage, stables, two greenhouses, and a fish pond. The greenhouses are drawn as directly abutting the line of the neighboring property which had been bought, in 1844, by John H. Austen, a New York City auction­ eer.2

In 1846, the McFarlanes sold the land (2.7 acres) and the dwelling to Daniel Low for $9,000. In 1847, Low sold to Richard Williamson, and three years later, in 1850, Williamson sold to Henry Dibblee, of Southfield. Dibblee, a dry-goods merchant, occu­ pied the house until 1865 when he sold it to Almira Wolfe (Mrs. Nathaniel) for $25,000

The $25,000 purchase price ,which Mrs. Wolfe paid to Henry Dibblee in 1865 was a huge sum for that time and an indication that the property was well improved and in excellent order. Since Dibblee lived there for fifteen years, it may be assumed that he did a number of things which agded to the value of the place. He may have done a considerable amount of landscaping, and he must have been responsible for the first addition to the west end of the house which nearly doubled its size. This section featured another projecting room-end and an extension of the veranda. Great care was taken to copy exactly all of the original detailing so that the house appeared to have been built all at one time. -2-

The following news item appeared on page two of the Richmond County Gazette on May 27, 1868:

Real Estate Sale ~ Mr. A.B. Janin, real estate agent, 80 Wall Street, New York, has sold the property of Nathaniel H. Wolfe at Clifton, consisting of a house and three acres of land to the New York Yacht Club for $25,000. These premises are beauti­ fully situated on the shores opposite the Narrows, and are ad~ mirably adapted to the uses of the Yacht Club. Th.e sale is one of great importance to the Island as attracting so many people of wealth and high social position to our shores. The New York Yacht Club now numbers 450 members and it is understood that their first regatta this spring will be given from their new location. The sale was formally made to James Gordon Bennett, Jr., an officer of the New York Yacht Club, and he transferred it . to the club two months later.3 The only known picture of the house as it then looked is a woodcut which accompanied an article about the Yacht Club in Scribner's Monthly Magazine for August 1872 (see illustration). The Stevens Family of Castle Point, Hoboken, New Jersey

The first clubhouse of the New York Yacht Club had been a Gothic Revival boat house at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey, which belonged to John C. Stevens, the founder of the club, and his b~others, Robert and Edwin, who were equally well known in yachting circles.4

John Cox Stevens (1785-1857), founder of the New York Yacht Club, was a member of the prominent Hoboken, New Jersey,family of engineers and inventors who had done much to advance the mechanic arts in America. On April 11, 1803, his father, Col. John Stevens (1749-1838) had secured a patent for a multi-tubular steam boiler, and the following year Col. Stevens built a small propeller-driven steamboat named Little Juliana which was successfully taken back and forth across the Hudson River, three years before Robert Fulton built his steamship, the Clermont.

In 1806, Col. Stevens designed a 100-foot steamboat named the Phoenix intending to put it into public service. However, Fulton had joined Chancellor Robert R. Livingston in a monopoly which gave them complete control over all steamboating on the Hudson River, and Stevens was forced to sell the Phoenix for use out of the area as a ferry running between Philadelphia and Trenton, New Jersey. He later was given an opportunity to join with Fulton and Livingston, but all rights to his 'inventions would have become the property of the cartel. Firm in his belief that the monopoly was unconstitutional, he declined the offer.5 Thwarted in his attempts at steamboating Col. Stevents went on to design the first American-built steam locomotive in 1825, when he was 76 years old.6

The Founding of the New York Yacht Club

While railroading was still in its infancy, shipping by water was the chief means of transporting goods. Shipping companies competed hotly with one another to provide speedy service and the American clipper ships were the fastest in the world. The craze for speed extended to sailing vessels of all kinds. New York was known to have the fastest pilot boats, and American yachtsmen commissioned one yacht after another in the hope of out-distancing all challengers. Although it was the twilight of the age of sailing, the ships of that era were the fastest and the most beautiful the world had ever known. -3-

On the afternoon of July 30, 1844, John C. Stevens entertained a group of nine New York yachtsmen for the purpose of forming a club. The meeting was held aboard Stevens' yacht Gimcrack, which was lying just off the Batter~ and the first recorded minutes of the New York Yacht Club are as follows:

According to previous notice, the following gentlemen assembled for the purpose of organizing a yacht club, Viz:

John C. Stevens .•...... Yacht - Gimcrack Hamilton Wilkes ...... • " - Spray William Edgar ....•...... " - Cygnet John C. Jay ...... •..... " - LaCoquille George L. Schuyler ...... " - Dream Louis A. Depau. . • ...... " - Mist James M. Waterbury ...... " - Minna George B. Rollins ...... " - Petrel Capt. James Rogers ...... " - Ida

On motion, it was resolved to form a Yacht Club. On motion, it was resolved that the name of the club be the New York Yacht Club.

On motion, it was resolved that the gentlemen present be the original members of the Club.

On motion, it was resolved that John C. Stevens be the Commodore of the Club. (He was Commodore from 1844 until 1854.)

After appointing five men as a committee on rules and regulations, the members voted-­ as their first official function -- to make a cruise to Newport, Rhode Island, with a scheduled departure time of 9:00 A.M., Friday, August 2, 1844, and the meeting was adjourned. By mid-century, yachting had become a mania, if not a full-time occupation, with many wealthy men of the northeastern United States and England. Dedicated sailors cif great skill, they personally supervised everything pertaining to their yachts and sailed on every cruise, often spending lengthy periods away from home. Later on, yachting became quite "social" and the various clubs vied as openly w:hth their elegant balls and lavish dinners, (to which ladies were invited) as they did with their regattas.

The Winning of the America's Cup

Yachting, as a competitive sport, was firmly established in England in 1812 with the founding of the Royal Yacht Squadron, the most important of all yacht clubs in Great Britain. The Squadron enjoyed r .oyal favor and in 1830, and every year thereafter of his reign, William IV presented a valuable cup as a trophy to be awarded to the fastest yacht. Beginning in 1843, Queen Victoria annually provided the Squadron with a challenge cup -- popularly known as the "Queen's Cup."

In 1851, England sponsored an exposition for the purpose of displaying the latest Brittish mechanical and scientific inventions and related progress in the fields of commerce and industry; and other nations were invited to provide examples of their most modern technology. For over 260 years since the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588, England had boasted supremacy on the seas and in celebration of this tradition, a number of yachting events had been planned to coincide with the exposition. In the fall of 1850, Commodore Stevens received a letter from the Commodore of the Royal Yacht -4-

Squadron which offered the hospitalities of his club to members of the New: York Yacht Club and their friends, and he suggested that one of the New York pilot boats be sent to London to give an exhibition of her speed.

Intrigued by the idea of competing with the British, Commodore Stevens and four other members of the New York Yacht Club formed a syndicate and commissioned a new schooner yacht which they planned to take to England. The man chosen to design the boat was George Steers (1820-1856), a brilliant young naval architect. He was the third son of Henry Steer, a successful British shipbuilder, who had emigrated to the United Stated in 1819. Henry Steer - · who adaed an "s" to the family name -- es·tab­ lished a shipyard on the East River at the foot of East lOth Street in New York City and he and his sons turned their full attention to shipbuilding. George Steers· was the man responsible for designing the fabled New York pilot boats and he had also built a great number of yachts over the years for various members of the New York Yacht Club, constantly working to improve the design and obtain more speed.7

So as to remain within the spirit of the invitation, it was decided that the new yacht would be rigged precisely like a pilot boat with a single jib, a lug , foresail, and no top foresail. Although George Steers· is credited with the design, the boat was built by William H. Brown at his shipyard in Red Hook, Brooklyn, where the keel was laid down near the end of December 1850. The new yacht, christened America, was launched on May 3, 1951. On Friday, June 20, 1851, the ship sailed from New· York on the first voyage across the Atlantic ever undertaken by a yacht, with George Steers and his brother James on board to supervise this: shakedown cruise. Twenty~one days· after leaving New York, the America arrived at LeHavre, France, where Commodore Stevens was waiting to board her. When in good racing tri·m, the America sailed for Cowes, the headquarters and home base of the Royal Yacht Squadron, and on the morning of August 22, 1851, she entered the International Regatta as one of fifteen contenders for the Royal Squadron Cup.

The America quickly showed her superiority over the British yach.ts, arr1v1ng back at the finish twenty-four minutes before the second boat, the Aurora, thereby- winning

the much,.-coveted Cup. On August 28, 1851, the America triumphed again 1 beating the yacht Titania by fifty-two minutes. Queen Victoria was so impressed by the ability of America that on the day following the great race, she boarded her and, after compliment­ ing the captain and crew, gave the s:hip a complete inspection, below decks as· well as above. 8

The Royal Yacht Squadron Cup won by the America is probably the most illustrious yachting trophy in exis-tence in the world. Commodore Stevens and his associates· deeded it to Th.e New York Yacht Club to be put up for challenge and awarded as the prize in future international competitions. This· famous silver ewer, now know as· the America'·s- Cup is still in the hands of the New York Yacht Club, for over the last 130 years, they have successfully defended it twenty-four times·. 9

The New York Yacht Club at Clifton

On August 8, 1870, a momentous yachting event took place in New York harbor while the New York Yacht Club was located at Clifton. This was the first race in challenge for the America's Cup. Among the eighteen ships which entered the regatta was the Cambria from England, representing the Royal Thames Yacht Club. It was estimated that a crowd of over 50,000 people lined the shores of Staten Island and Brooklyn: "The New York Yacht Club's Magic won the race and soundly drubbed the Cambria to the de­ light of the partisan crowd and as the victorious Magic sailed into the Narrows, it was greeted by the thunder of cannon on the Club House grounds and the whistles and -5-

sirens of the steamers."lO The reconditioned 19-year old America, which then belonged to the United States Government, also sailed the cours:e and, she too, beat the Cambria.

In post- Civil War years, the character of yachting changed greatly and immensely rich men who owned large steam-yachts became members of the club. They did not have such an intense interest in sailing and their ships: were manned by full-time paid crews. They stepped up the social life of the club and wanted a more elegant estab­ lishment -- after all, the Royal Yacht Squadron was. housed in a former royal castle at Cowes. It was also onerous to have to go to Staten Island and back just for a party .

The clubhouse at Clifton was found to be inadequate for large gatherings and in 1871 it was sold to Frederick Bredt, merchant, for $16,000.11 Because Bredt was the first owner after the New York Yacht Club, his name has· been historically as-sociated with the house. Meanwhile, the New York Yacht Club occupied a huge casino-type s·truc­ ture located directly on the waterfront at Stapleton which it maintained as· a shore station until 1878.

In 1872, the New York Yacht Club moved to Manhattan where they took up quarters in the Leonard Jerome mansion at Union Square and 26th Street, sharing the building with the Jockey Club.12 This arrangement lasted until 1884 when the Yacht Club -moved to a house which they bought at 67 Madison Avenue. The final move occurred in 1901 when the New Yo rk Yacht club firs t occupied its present home at 37 West 44th s·treet. This handsome limestone Beaux-Arts building with a mos·t r emarkable facade which ex­ hibits carved-stone waves, shells, seaweed, dolphins, and the stern-ends of three baroque sailing vessels, was designed by the architects Warren & Wetmore and was de­ signated a New York City Landmark on September 11, 1979.

Later Owners and Chan ges

Th.e former New York Yacht Club building at Clifton has had two more a dditions since it was sold in 1871. It is not likely that Frederick Bredt enlarged the hous·e since he held it for only three years:, selling the place to George D. Ives in 1874. Bredt had a mansion named Beechwood on a very large corner lot across Pennsylvania Avenue (the former name of Ry lan Bouleva rd) and he probaoly never lived in the villa. How~ ever, Ives: owned the house for a l engthy period, and the style of the wing added to the east could indicate a date in the 1870s. This· wing res-pects the oasic design of the original hous·e, but its somewhat lower roof makes an awkward connection to the older section.

In 1891, th.e property was: bought by James Thompson who held it until 1908, al­ though his daughter, Jeanette, was the owner until 1948. It is probable that Thompson built the three--s-tory addition a t the extreme wes·tern end which stylis-tically appears· to have been built in the 1890s.l3 This section - - b old and square and tall -- is quite different in appearance f rom the rest of the building .

In 1948, Jeanette Thompson, then living on Belair Road, sold the house to T. Gilbert Brouillette, who lived there until 1961. In the years that followed, developers purchased the property, and the Austen house next door as well, and ownership changed a numb er of times. Finally, in 1975, the City of New York acquired both properties with the idea of creating a public park and preserving these choice r emnants of old Staten Island on their beautiful site beside the Narrows. ~6-

Description

As seen today, the two-story, clapboard~covered McFarlane-Bredt house (former New York Yacht Club) stands on its original site, and although it has been divided into several apartments, the exterior appears much as it did at the turn of the cen­ tury. The main entrance is centered on the s·outhern s·ide, placed th.ere for convenience to the carriage drive. The fancifully-designed hood above the panelled double doors was obviously intended to resemble a canvas pavilion. Narrow latticed posts support a sharply concave tin roof with a wooden valance of pointed jigsaw ornament depending from the eave. 14 On the second floor, directly above the main entrance, is a shallow balcony resting on a pair of console brackets and having a delicate wooden railing of diamond design. A casement window opens into this balcony and above it is a smaller version of the decorative wooden awning of the porch. All the windows of the second floor in the older part of the house have these attractive wooden canopies above their casements. The windows of the first floor have double-hung six-over-six sash. The cornice is most unusual in that it has an extremely wide overhang supported by very long brackets which are quite shallow in depth, stepping backward in four thin layers with a wooden acorn pendant hanging from the end of each tier. The east wing of the 1870s has a similar cornice in smaller scale with two drops per bracket, while the west wing of the 1890s has rather short brackets with one pendant, each.. In addition to the main entrance in the original house, each wing also has a front door. The western entrance has a narrow porch with a row of jigsaw wooden hearts decorating the eave, while the eastern door has only a small square stoop with a plain flat roof above it.

The northern part of the house with overlooks the Narrows probably was cons-idered the "front" in the same manner as were the facades of houses built facing the Hudson River. The main feature of this side of the house is the long open veranda with flat wooden posts of diamond trelliage and small paired brackets above the ornamental jigsaw work along the edge of the roof. Full length casement windows which have frames with crossetted corners open onto the veranda from the various first-floor rooms, and centered in each of the three-sided bays is a handsome French door with a demi~lune transom. The outer edges of these two openings are decorated with con-­ tinuous narrow borders of ruby-red glass. All the windows of the house, as well as the French doors, were originally equipped with wooden louvered exterior blinds, but these have been removed except for a few which cover spaces that were designed as false windows. The pitch of the main roof is quite flat, but directly above each of the two~story bays it rises to form a j erkinhead gable which aids in giving more defini­ tion to the bays and additional architectural interest to the roofline. There are a total of four brick chimneys which serve the numerous fireplaces within the house. The westernmost wing, probably of the 1890s, is nearly square and rises three stories above a red brick foundation to a pyramidal hipped roof. With an additional story, this section would have presented itself as a tower -- more in keeping with high Victorian taste. However, since the wing is very plain in design, it was probably intended for use as servants' quarters. The original windows of this section were two-over-two double-hung wooden sash which have recently been replaced with adjustable louvered-glass jalousies. The entire house is presently painted a deep shade of grey with white trim; the original color scheme is not known.

The M cFarlane-Bredt House, built in the 1840s to resemble an Italian-Swiss villa, is an exceptional example of this unusual mid-19th century architectural style for dwellings. Originally erected for Henry McFarlane, an early developer of Staten Island, the house became the second home of the New York Yacht Club from 1868 to 1871 during a period when the sport of yachting had attained tremendous popularity. In 18 70, the first race in challenge for the America's Cup -- considered the most imp.or- -7-

tant regatta ever held in New York Harbor -- took place from the Narrows in front of the clubhouse to Sandy Hook Light and back. Thus, the former New York Yach.t Club at Clifton is intimately associated with the history of Staten Island and yachting in America and together with its Landmark neighbor, the Alice Austen House, it presents a rare vignette of the pastoral Staten Island of the 19th century.

Report prepared by James E. Dibble Sr. Landmarks Preservation Specialist

Report typed by Barbara Sklar

FOOTNOTES

1. This map is reproduced on page 11 of the Staten Island Historian, 28, (April-June 1967).

2. John H. Austen was the grandfather of E. Alice Austen (1866-1952) the pioneer Staten Island woman photographer. John Austen, an auctioneer by profes-sion, was a country gentlemen and a very accomplished gardener. He had landscaped his property into a show-place and after he was elected to membership in th.e New York Yacht Club in June 1868, he was given charge of the clubhouse and the grounds. Austen's ancient house which he remodelled into a Gothic cottage in the mid-19th century was designated a New York City Landmark on November 9, 1971.

3. James Gordon Bennett, Jr . (1841-1918),well known as the editor of the New York Herald, was Vice Commodore of the New York Yacht Club 1867-1870 and Commodore from 1871 until 1875.

4. The Stevens boathouse stood in Hoboken until 1904 when it was slated to be torn down. At that point, Frederick G. Bourne, Commodore of the New York Yacht Club, initiated a program to save it. The old boathouse was loaded onto a barge and towed around the southern tip of Manhattan, up the East River, through. Hellgate, into Long Island Sound and landed at Glen Cove, Long Island, to serve as a shore station for the Yacht Club. In 1949, the members of the New York Yacht Club voted to sell their two-acre site to the City of Glen Cove for a municipal boat basin. However, the old clubhouse was not included in the sale, and once a gain it was placed on a barge and was towed to Mystic Connecticut. There is may be seen at the head of the Mystic town landing where it is open to th.e public in con­ junction with the Mystic Seaport Museum, although ownership of the building was retained by the New York Yacht Club.

5. Rob e rt R. Livingstone (1746- 1813) was Cha nce llor of New York State from 1777 to 1801. He was aware of the early experiments of men like Fitch, Mo rey , and Stevens, and he realized that it was only a matter of time until a practical steam-propelled boat would be invented. His great political influence enabled him to secure the grant of a New York State monopoly in 1798 which was to control s·teamboating on all waters of New York State. He met young Rob ert ·Fulton in Paris- and soon be-· came his patron, entering into a l egal agr eement wi th Fulton to constTuct a steam- -8-

boat for use on the Hudson River between New York and Albany and in 1803 Livingson took Fulton as a partner in his monopoly which he then renewed for twenty years. Col. Stevens' suspicions proved to be correct, and in 1824, the United States Supreme Court decided thac any monopoly granting exclusive rights to boating on the waters of any State was unconsitutional.

6. Col. Stevens had nurtured the intention to found a college for the education of technicians and engineers but was never able to do so because his fortune was completely tied up in his steamboating and railroading interests. Edwin A. Stevens (1795-1868) brought his father's dream to reality when he left a part of the family estate, Castle Point in Hoboken, the sum of $500,000 as· an endowment and $150.,0.0.0 t o erect a building. The college thus established -- The Stevens Institute of Technology -- opened its doors on September 20, 1871, and is well known t oday.

7. George Steers died in 1856 at the young age of 36 as the result of a carriage accident in New Jersey.

8. The British were greatly dismayed by the easy victory of the America, and, over­ night, a rumor swept England that she was a cheat with a paddle-wheel concealed in her hull. Perhaps the Queen decided to see for herself.

9. The America went on to a fascinating international career. She did not return to the United States after winning the Royal Squadron Cup, but remained in England, having been sold for the sum of five thousand pounds to an officer in the Indian army. By 1859, she belonged to her fourth British owner and had been re-christened 'Camilla. Her next owner from Savanah, Georgia, bought her in 1861 and renamed ·Memphis·, she became a blockade runner in the service of the Confederate Govern­ ment. In 1862, a Northern boat chased her up the St. John's River in Florida and sank her. After the Civil War, raised and repaired, she became a training ship for mids·hipmen at Annapolis. In 18 71, she was sold to General Butler of Lowell, Massachusetts, who had her rebuilt and raced her in foreign waters over a period of twenty years. In 1921, Charles Francis Adams, Secretary of the Navy, Launched a campaigru to purchase the America and restore her. The project was a succes:s and in September of that year, the grant old lady of yachting sailed to her permanent berth on the Severn River at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis·, Maryland. There she remained until March 1942, when a severe snow storm collapsed her shelter and reduced her to splinters. In 1966, the Schaeffer B:rewing Company of Brooklyn, New York, financed an exact reproduction of the yacht Amerfca. Built by the firm of Goudy & Stevens in Boothbay, Maine, the rep­ lica was launched on May 3, 1967. Correct in every detail, the new America had one additional feature, a modern G.M. diesel engine.

10. The Staten Island Historian, 28 (April-June 1967), 16.

11. Frederick Bredt, socially prominent on Staten Island, was a well-to-do merchant with. a business located in New York City. Trow ' s New York City Directory for 1862 lists. F. Bredt & Co., Importer, 178 Fulton Street, New York City , and Trow ' s Directory for 1880 lists F. Bredt & Co., Dyest uff~ at the same address . -9-

12. Leonard Jerome was a multi-millionaire New Yorker and the leader of the sporting set. He founded the Jockey Club and built a racetrack known as Jerome Park. His daughter, Jennie Jerome, married Lord Randolph Churchill and became the mother of Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of England during the Second World War. The opulent six-story French Second Empire Jerome mansion at Union Square and 26th Street was probably the closest thing to a palace ever seen in New York City. Eventually, it became the horne of the Union League Club, the University Club, and lastly, the Metropolitan Club. This valuable corner property was sold in 1966 and, after much controversy, the mansion was demolished the following year.

13. In late 19th century Staten Island directories, James Thompson is listed as an architect-builder.

14. Originally, these concave tin roofs were often painted with parti-colored vertical stripes to further convey the appearance of an awning.

FINDINGS AND DESIGNATIONS

On the basis of a careful consideration of the history, the architecture and other features of this building, the Landmarks Preservation Commission finds that the McFar­ lane-Bredt House (former New York Yacht Club) has a special character, special historic and aesthetic interest and value as a part of the development, heritage and cultural characteristics of New York City.

The Commission further finds that, among its important qualities, the McFarlane­ Bredt House (former New York Yacht Club) was built in the 1840s to resemble an Italian­ Swiss villa and is an exceptional example of this unusual mid-19th century style for dwellings; that it was originally erected for Henry McFarlane, an early developer of Staten Island; that it became the second horne of the New York Yacht Club from 1868 to 1871 during a period when the sport of yachting had attained tremendous popularity; that in 1870, the first race in challenge for the America's Cup-- considered the most important regatta ever held in New York Harbor -- took place from the Narrows in front of the club house; that it is intimately associated with the history of Staten Island and yachting in America; and that together with its Landmark neighbor, the Alice Austen House, the McFarlane-Bredt House (former New York Yacht Club) presents a rare vignette of the pastoral Staten Island of the 19th century.

Accordingly, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 21 (formerly Chapter 63) of the Charter of the City of New York, and Chapter 8-A of the Administrative Code of the City of New York, the Landmarks Preservation Commission designates as a Landmark the McFarlane~Bredt House (former New York Yacht Club), 30 Rylan Boulevard, Borough of Staten Island, and designates Tax Map Block 2830, Lot 49 in part, consisting of the land which formerly comprised Lot 40, as its Landmark Site. BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Photo Credit: McFARLANE-BREDT HOUSE Photo taken in 1911 Archives of the Staten Island (Former New York Yacht Club) Institute of Arts and Sciences 30 Hylan Boulevard Staten Island