Tarrytown is a village in the town of Greenburgh, located on the eastern bank of the Hudson River, south of the village of Sleepy Hollow, at about 40km north of midtown Manhattan. Among its points of interest is Lyndhurst, also known as the Jay Gould estate, a Gothic Revival country house that sits in its own park beside the Hudson River, at less than one km south of the Tappan Zee Bridge. Designed in 1838 by Alexander Jackson Davis, the house has been owned by New York City mayor William Paulding, Jr., merchant George Merritt, and railroad tycoon Jay Gould. In 1961, Gould's daughter Anna Gould donated it to the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It is now open to the public.
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