Applications Filed to Raze Seven Scarsdale Properties: Dolkart Says 21 Barry Road Should Be Preserved

Seven more properties could be demolished if approved by the Scarsdale Committee for Historic Preservation at their meeting on September 16, 2025. On the agenda are applications to raze the Ethical Cultural Society and replace it with a 110 unit senior living facility, to demolish a grand farmhouse on Eton Road and to take down 2 homes on Garden Road where developers have applied to build a subdivision, that will be under consideration by the Planning Board.

What’s more? Andrew Dolkart, the Village’s preservation consultant, has provided his views on whether 21 Barry Road and 74 Carthage Road meet the Village’s criteria for preservation.

80 and 88 Garden Road

Applications have been filed by developer Eilon Amidor to take down both 80 and 88 Garden Road, two homes that are within a proposed development site to be called The Gardens. The application to build 5 new homes will be before the Planning Board on September 11, 2025. This means that these two homes are under consideration by two land use boards at the same time. Plans to develop the wet site have been scuttled many times. However now the developers appear to be moving forward pending approval.

Amidor has also filed applications to take down:

-54 Drake Road
-17 Highland Way

This brings the total to four applications by Amidor for one meeting of the committee.

24 Eton Road

An application to raze a prominent 1911 farmhouse atop a hill in the Grange, at 24 Eton Road has also been filed. Perhaps in anticipation of resistance to the demolition, the applicants, Mikhail and Iuliia Pavlova have retained Lucia Chiocchio of Cuddy and Feder to represent them. She argues that the home does not meet the Village’s criteria for preservation. See her letter here:

Ethical Culture Society

Another interesting application has been filed to demolish two buildings owned by the Ethical Culture Society at 7 Saxon Woods Road in order to build a 25,000 square foot, two-story senior living facility on the site. The building would house 110 seniors and would be located next to the Ambassador. See the application here:

21 Barry Road

Also of interest, Cultural Architectural Historian Andrew Dolkart has evaluated a home at 21 Barry Road for his views on whether or not it meets Scarsdale’s criteria for preservation. After considerable research he determined that the home was part of Scarsdale’s earliest development and was built in a subdivision known as Westover. The development was “characterized by modest houses, designed during the 1920’s in historical styles with each uniformly set back on its plot behind a lawn.” Dolkart found that the house meets criteria 1 for preservation in that “it reflects the broad pattern of Scarsdale history.” He concludes by saying “It would be detrimental to the character of Westover and to the character of Scarsdale were this well designed and largely intact house to be demolished.” See his full letter here:

74 Carthage Road74 Carthage Road

Also asked to research a mid-century modern ranch at 74 Carthage Road, Dolkart did not recommend that it be preserved. He said it was “not of significant architectural interest.” See his evaluation here: