Announcing Greenacres' 100th Birthday Bash

The year 2012 is the hundredth anniversary of some momentous historical events …. the Titanic collided with an iceberg and sunk on April 15, 1912, Paramount Pictures was founded and released the first Sara Bernhardt film in the U.S., and Greenacres was born in Scarsdale. That’s why the Greenacres Association is planning a Centennial Celebration at Scarsdale Golf Club on Saturday night June 2nd. This will be no ordinary neighborhood get-together. The evening will feature cocktails, dinner and dancing to tunes spun by a D.J.

You’ll have a chance to greet your neighbors and look back at Greenacres’ illustrious past and colorful residents.

Here are a few trivia items to whet your appetite for what’s to come on June 2:

Who Built Scarsdale’s First Swimming Pool?

The first pool in Scarsdale was not built in Heathcote. In fact, it was at 80 Garden Road at the home of Mrs. Bevor-Webb. And who was Mrs. Bevor-Webb? None other than the wife of the captain of J. P. Morgan’s yacht Corsair. She later became J.P. Morgan’s mistress and he bought her 8 acres on Garden Road and built her a home and a “rock garden having a concealed system of water pipes available at will for the purpose of filling the basins and supplying the fountains in the rock garden.” The home is still there today.

Where is the fountain on Fountain Terrace?

Developer Robert Farley built the Italianate fountain pictured above along the Bronx River in front of the “Tea House” in the early 20th century. Unfortunately, the fountain disappeared with the Bronx River Parkway was improved in 1974.

Learn more about your neighborhood at the gala celebration on June 2, 2012. Your invitation should have already arrived in the mail. Use the R.S.V.P. card to reserve your place or go to greenacres10583.com to sign-up.