A Home With a Story: 455 Polly Park Road and the History Behind One of Westchester’s Most Unique Properties

Some homes are just houses. Others carry history.

455 Polly Park Road in Rye PO (Harrison schools) is firmly in the second category. Listed at $3,695,000, this 1909 Colonial sits on 1.73 private acres backing directly onto the Westchester Country Club West Course. It offers three bedrooms, three full baths, a beautifully updated interior, and an extraordinary restored barn.

But the numbers only tell part of the story.

The Story Behind the Street

In 1909, a man named Mr. Hobart Park built this house as a wedding gift for his daughter, Polly. The street was named for her. It still is.

455 Polly Park Road was one of the first two homes ever built on this block. The current owners spent time researching and writing a paper documenting the property’s origins, providing a level of provenance that is genuinely rare in residential real estate. Few homes in Westchester can trace their lineage this precisely.

For buyers who care about what a home represents, not just what it contains, that matters.

The Golf Course Next Door Has Its Own History

The property backs directly onto the Westchester Country Club West Course. If you follow golf, you know the name. If you know the name, you know what the West Course represents.

Designed by Walter J. Travis in 1922, the West Course has hosted the 1923 and 2021 U.S. Women’s Amateurs, over 35 PGA Tour events, the 2011 Senior Players Championship, and the 2015 KPMG Women’s PGA Championship. Winners of the Westchester Classic over the years include Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Seve Ballesteros, Ernie Els, and Vijay Singh.

To wake up every morning with those fairways as your backyard is not something you can manufacture. You either have it or you don’t.

455 Polly Park Road has it.

A Property With Two Chapters

The main house is a center-hall Colonial that has been thoughtfully expanded and updated over the decades.

The first floor offers an open kitchen and family room, a dining room, a living room, a sunroom, a full bath, and a mudroom. The family room, with its vaulted ceiling and views of the grounds, is the kind of room people fall in love with on sight.

Upstairs, the primary bedroom offers generous proportions, ample closet space, and an en suite bath. Two additional well-sized bedrooms and a hall bath with laundry complete the second floor.

Outside, a grand brick patio with awnings steps down to a second patio area with a top-of-the-line outdoor kitchen. The landscaped grounds open directly onto the golf course, with sweeping views from nearly every room. A detached two-car garage completes the package.

The main house is a wonderful home. But the barn is what people will talk about.

The Barn: A Study in Craftsmanship

When the current owners purchased the property in 1985, the barn was already well over 100 years old. They did not demolish it. They did not renovate it in a weekend. They spent over two years taking it down to its foundation and rebuilding it entirely.

The materials were sourced with intention. Trusses came from Vermont, brought in by craftsmen who specialize in historic barn construction. Six-inch siding was used throughout. Original wood from the structure was incorporated into its reconstruction, preserving the barn’s heritage while giving it a finished interior of exceptional quality.

The result is a soaring space with:

• Exposed dark timber trusses framing a cathedral ceiling
• A full brick fireplace with a wood mantle
• A loft overlooking the main room below
• French doors opening to the golf course

To stand inside it is to understand immediately why the owners spent 40 years here. It is a space unlike anything else on the local market.

Why This Property Will Not Last

Southern Westchester does not offer many opportunities like this one.

Direct Westchester Country Club West Course frontage on 1.73 acres, at any price, is exceptionally rare. Add a documented 1909 provenance, a meticulously restored antique barn, an updated main house, and Harrison schools, and the combination becomes nearly impossible to replicate.

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