Some of the old Westchester station houses are funky restaurants, like Valhalla Crossing, and some serve up Starbucks in a cool Tudor setting, such as Hartsdale.
Others, like our own Hawthorne facility, are storage rooms for junk, with broken and boarded up windows.
The NY Times reports on a unique use for the station house in Philipse Manor, along the Hudson Line. The building is the home of the Hudson Valley Writers’ Center, giving local writers a peaceful place to hone their craft, and inspiring them through readings by sometimes famous authors.
Tammy La Gorce writes:
The Stevers, who live in Sleepy Hollow, also collaborated with a board member, Nicholas Robinson, in overseeing the $800,000 renovation of the Philipse Manor station, which won a state historic preservation award in 1995. Inside, the center has the look of a home library minus the dusty shelves; an Oriental rug buffers a well-worn wood floor, a ficus tree flanks a stone fireplace.
Patricia McCormack read from her young adult novel Purple Hearts this past Sunday.