Local History
The "Spy" House
This seventeenth-century stone and wood house was built by Lieutenant Cornelius Van Tassel, a Patriot. It served as the first Greenburgh Town Hall and was the scene of Town elections and meetings following the incorporation of the Greenburgh Township in 1788. It is referred to as the "Spy" House because it was the central location throughout James Fenimore Cooper's book, "The Spy".
