Philadelphia, PA 19111
"The Mizzen-Top Hotel on Quaker Hill site on 1880 to 1933 - 33 years in Pawling, N.Y. Picture taking for 1919"
The Mizzen-Top Hotel can contain of building view of the Harem Valley - stood 1,300 feet above sea level!
Imagined and financed, Albert J. Akin, "Pawling’s most successful businessman... who in 1849 founded the Pawling Bank. "Albert J. Akin, later found of Akin Free Library and Museum. The J.A. Wood managed at the top on hotel designer, enclosed three story Dutch three stories high, 250 guests, offered first class accommodations, lawn tennis, bowling alley and golf course.
Regarding Mizzen-Top-Hotel. one story has it the hotel was named by Admiral John Lorimer Worden, former commander of the Civil War ship Monitor and who was subsequently a Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. Admiral Worden often spent summers on Quaker Hill and eventually married Olivia Toffey, the daughter of a prominent Pawling resident, and aunt of Daniel Toffey who was Worden's clerk on the Monitor. (Route 22 cemetery, Admiral Worden, Daniel Toffey, brother John James Toffey. SIPnAlive.com on great, great-great in down of Pawling, route #22.
Great grandparent John James and Mary Sip Toffey, John’s brother Dan Toffey, William Vermily Toffey I, father George Toffey family from Jersey City north to the Pawling gusts to Quaker Hill - The Mizzen-Top Hotel in Quaker Hill Road and Church Road.
But trustees closed to hotel it permanently and demolished the building in 1932. In 1936 to the whole Christian Christ Church congregating.
Southwest on Christ Church in corner, Old Quaker Hill Rd, and Church Rd (East, Kirby Hill Rd), the first corner of house was Cornelius Frame, but sold to John Akin II, one of two Abigail Akin. Wedding, (1st of 6th Generation of Toffey on Pawling), John Toffey and Abigail in 1776, and couple house: ‘Toffey’s Corner!
Owned by the Historical Society of Quaker Hill and Pawling.