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The Denison-White Mansion
Bus ride to Resorts World
The Our Lady of the Assumption
Senior Group is sponsoring a bus trip
to the Resorts World Casino in the
Catskills on Wednesday, November 20.
The trip is a 1 1/2 hour ride.
The bus departs at 8:30 a.m. at Morris
Park Avenue between Colden and
Hone avenues in front of the Big Deal
Supermarket; and at 8:45 a.m. from
OLA Auditorium, Middletown Road
between Mahan and Parkview avenues
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Tickets are $45 per person, with
a return of $25 in slot play and $15 in
food coupon. All are welcome.
Bus seating is according to date of
payment.
For more information and to reserve
your spot on the bus, call Fran
Arico at (718) 828-5073.
The Dennison-White Mansion in November of 2010.
Not too many years after the
American Revolution, around 1815,
Israel Cook bought a modest home on
Broadway near Rector Street and set
up a retail butter outlet in his home.
His business continued to grow and
he saved his profi ts investing them
in real estate realizing that the city
would be growing and property values
would be rising. All went well for
Israel and he made a lot of money in
real estate and left the business to his
sons when he retired. His sons were
not as wise as the father, however,
and tried unsuccessfully to corner
the sugar market. They lost a lot of
the father’s money.
One of the sons married one of the
daughters of Charles Denison Sr. and
although Charles would one day become
very wealthy, he started life
rather poor with a small liquor store
on Fulton Street in New York City.
After the store burned down, he resolved
not to give up on business but
to start over.
He opened a wholesale grocery
business on Dey Street off West Street
under the name C & L Denison and in
time it became the largest such establishment
in the area. It catapulted
the family to wealth and a life style
that included grand estates and mansions.
One such estate was built in
the then rural area that later became
known as the Longwood district of
the Bronx. It was the only building
in the area and thus today, the partial
structure that still stands faces
cattycorner to East 156th and Beck
streets. There simply was no grid
system at the time it was built which
accounts for the unusual position facing
the corner of the property. When
it was built with its checkerboard façade
surrounded by huge and imposing
trees, it proffered a magnifi cent
bucolic scene.
Charles Sr. became one of the most
noted and respected men about town
as well as a noted politician. His son,
Charles Jr., took over the business
and became an equally well-known
and respected merchant active in various
pursuits and organizations including
the noted Mercantile Library
Association. The business prospered
under his tutorship and while his father
was away pursuing his political
career, Charles made good use of the
family mansion in Longwood. Samuel
White, his brother-in-law, later
took over the estate and thus the
structure became known as the Denison
White Mansion.
The building has had many uses
since the family left and the George
Johnson family developed the area
circa 1898 and then in the 1920s the
mansion became home to the noted
Longwood Club. Later it served as
the Patrolman P. Lynch Community
Center, a Police Athletic League center,
among other uses.
Today the still standing section of
the mansion is called Fox Hall and although
greatly diminished in size, it
is the centerpiece of the Cedars Residence
where it serves as their social
center.
The well-manicured property is
surrounded by wrought-iron fencing
and a bronze plaque in the corner of
the property indicates that the Denison
White Mansion was built in the
late 1840’s in Greek revival style and
restored in 2009.
The main entrance to the 95-unit
Cedars is at 745 Fox Street and there
are eight fl oors and a green roof in
keeping with the latest conservation
technology. It is administered
by the Lantern Organization and a
number of apartments are reserved
for grandparents who have become
primary caregivers for their grandchildren.
Soft carpeting throughout
the hallways was installed with the
seniors in mind and there is aroundthe
clock security.
Urban Architectural Initiatives
designed the low-income housing
complex and the Community Lantern
Corporation provides the support
services. It is good to see that
the organization saw fi t to preserve
and care for the historic Denison-
White Mansion.
- CORRECTION -
Last week’s article titled “CB10
committee discusses Hart Island’s
future’ contained several errors.
Phoenix House was located on Hart
Island, not Odessey House; fi ve residents
spoke in favor of the City
Council legislation; and Community
Board 10 had previously supported
the effort in 2015 to place the
island under NYC Parks Department
jurisdiction.