Post Cards of Dobbs Ferry Scenes,
ca. 1910
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These post cards give the viewer a sense of what the village of Dobbs Ferry looked like in the first quarter of the 20th century. The roads were still unpaved and the horse and buggy was far more commonplace than the automobile. Estherwood, built in 1895 by wealthy inventor and real-estate developer James Jennings McComb, has been the main building of the Masters School since 1910. It looks today remarkably like it did in 1910. The beautiful wooden bridge over a rocky ravine was located on the Dobbs Ferry estate of Edwin Gould, second-oldest son of railroad baron and financial speculator Jay Gould. The two churches shown here, Sacred Heart and Zion Episcopal, are still active in the Dobbs Ferry community.