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| course1 = | designer1 = | par1 = | length1 = | rating1 = | slope1 = | record1 = | image2 = Sleepy Hollow Country Club Logo.svg | imagesize2 = 260px | caption2 = }} Sleepy Hollow Country Club is a historic country club in Scarborough-on-Hudson in Briarcliff Manor, New York. The club was founded in 1911, and its clubhouse was known as Woodlea, a 140-room $2 million ($ today) Vanderbilt mansion owned by Colonel Elliott Fitch Shepard and his wife Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Shepard. It was built in 1892–5 and was designed by the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White; the estate became a contributing property to the Scarborough Historic District (on the National Register of Historic Places) in 1984. Woodlea's exterior was designed in an English Renaissance Revival style, and has a design following characteristics of the Beaux-Arts. The building's facades are primarily composed of buff-colored Italian brick. The south and west facades are both symmetrical, although the house has an asymmetrical overall plan. The long axis of the house is the most ornate; it faces the Hudson River, with a view of the river from its terrace and west-facing windows. The main entrance is at the building's south, directly approached by the south drive. The interior also has significant features, including marble fireplaces, coffered ceilings, and extensive carved wood and plaster detail. The house has between of interior space, making it one of the largest privately-owned houses in the United States. ==Club== The club currently has and a 27-hole golf course with tree limb footbridges.〔 Facilities include the main clubhouse, a pool complex, ten Har-Tru tennis courts, four aluminum heated platform tennis courts, four squash courts, eighteen guest rooms, skeet and trap areas, a 45-horse boarding facility, twenty paddocks, a large indoor riding arena, pro shops for golf and paddle sports, a fitness complex,〔 the golf course and practice range (non-contributing), outdoor riding rings, stables, and a carriage house.〔 Youth activities include golf, tennis, squash and riding.〔 The clubhouse has three dining rooms,〔 and altogether the club can hold 400 guests.〔 The club currently has 570 members, employs 60 year-round, and 200 during the height of the season.〔 The stables have a tack room, fifty stalls, and two indoor arenas, and they host the Sleepy Hollow Stable and Riding Academy.〔 The club's gross revenue is $12 million; of it, $2.5 million is from food and beverage sales.〔 The club property surrounds Saint Mary's Episcopal Church on three sides and slopes upwards east from U.S. Route 9. The clubhouse, which is open through every season of the year,〔 sits on a wide central plateau.〔 Notable early members included George G. Haven, V. Everit Macy, George W. Perkins, Moses Taylor, Oakleigh Thorne, and Frank Vanderlip;〔 notable current members include Bill Murray, James Patterson, and several members of the Rockefeller family.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sleepy Hollow Country Club」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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