You can’t help but see this house if you’re driving north on Route 9/Albany Post Road. It was once part of Peekskill’s Historic Community of St Mary. For more on this see: The Abbey Inn and Spa, part of which can be seen on the right side of the picture. In 1908 a granite three-story house designed by Henry Martyn Congdon (1834–1922) (who also designed the Abbey Buildings) was built for the convent’s resident chaplains. The first of these occupants was Rev. Father Maurice Cowl. It is now the private home of a local doctor

For more information on the Abbey and its buildings see New York Almanack’s article: Peekskill’s Historic Community of St Mary

Taken with a Sony RX10 IV