Cudner-Hyatt House

The Cudner-Hyatt house was originally a tenant farmhouse in Scarsdale. The house was owned by William Baker until it was purchased by Mikiah Cudner in 1757. Cudner added 30 acres to the property that he had purchased 15 years prior. Cudner also purchased 60 acres of land from the executor of Reuben Cudner’s estate, Bishop Shearwood. After 79 years in the ownership of the Cudner family, Caleb Hyatt bought the house in May of 1836 for $3,000 following the death of Sarah Cudner, the widow of Mikiah Cudner’s son Reuben Cudner.  

Three years after he purchased the property, Caleb Hyatt constructed a two story federal house and incorporated it into the foundation of the original farmhouse. After the death of Caleb Hyatt, North End Land Company purchased the farmland, but it was later repurchased by the Hyatt family until 1972. The cottage was purchased by the Scarsdale Historical Society and was a house museum until it was sold in 2020 with historic restrictions to protect it. It is once again a private residence.

The house serves as one of the few reminders of Scarsdale’s agricultural background. Scarsdale was a farming community and developed into a suburban community the cottage was added to the National Registry of Historic Places in 1973.

1.Bolton, Robert, The History of the Several Towns, Manors and Patents of the County of Westchester. New York: Johm Jay Cass, 1905.

2.National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination Form, Hyatt Caleb House, Westchester County Historical Society Archives, Accessed December 20, 2020

3.Williams, Gray. Picturing Our Past: National Register Sites in Westchester County. Elmsford, New York. Westchester Historical County Historical Society , 2003.