Mount Florence was a large 125-acre institutional complex located in Peekskill developed between 1874 and 1938 by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, Province of New York for the care and treatment of orphaned and delinquent girls. The New York State Register listing was composed of nine contributing buildings and structures including the Craig mansion house, the West building, the East building, the Chapel, the boiler house and laundry, the Long Building, the Caretaker’s residence, the cemetery, and the landscape. There were also 24 non-contributing buildings on the site. The Craig mansion house was a two-story Italianate style residence that was originally constructed for Daniel H. Craig c. 1865. The building was square on plan and of wooden frame construction sheathed with clapboard siding that was covered with asbestos shingles in the late 1940s. The Ginsburg Development Corporation demolished the Craig mansion, along with several of the other structures, in 2000. All that remains today is the 1897 school building (the West Building) and the adjacent 1927 chapel. Both have undergone extensive alterations.
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 15:43:23 +0000
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