Ellerslie, aka Bishop Farley Military Academy

 ruins, historical layer / disappeared object, military academy

Also known as Bishop Farley Military Academy. The architect Richard Upjohn designed for William Kelly a mansion that stood here in the mid-1800s. That house was razed and replaced by Ellerslie, a large Tudor-style brick and half-timber mansion designed by Richard Morris Hunt for Levi P. Morton, former United States Vice-President under Benjamin Harrison. Morton died at Ellerslie on his 96th birthday in 1920, and the house burned on October 20, 1950. The Cardinal Farley Military Academy operated there since 1942. The Holy Cross Brothers took over the site in 1971 and the Pope Pius XII School opened on August 16 of that year. The school, a juvenile detention center for teenage youths, closed in 2000 amid allegations of abuse of students by staff; consequently New York State revoked the school's license to operate.