Conference House Park Visitor Center

298 Satterlee Street | Tottenville | built 1940

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

Written with AI from the source each entry cites, then fact-checked.

1926
April 29
New York City takes ownership of the parkland where this bungalow stands
Campaigns to protect the vacant Conference House failed in 1888, 1896, 1901 and 1909, but in 1925 advocates got investors to buy the house plus 11 adjoining lots and give them to the city, a gift completed on April 29, 1926. This one-story Spanish Revival bungalow, now the park's visitor's center, went up in the 1920s, close to the time of that transfer. The Conference House Association began caring for the grounds with the city in 1929, and the site opened to the public in 1937.
“…in 1925 advocates persuaded investors to purchase Conference House and 11 contiguous lots ... and to donate the property to the City of New York…”
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission
2021
June 22
Landmarks Commission designates the Indigenous archaeological site around the visitor's center
The Landmarks Preservation Commission named about 20 acres of Conference House Park, roughly bounded by Hylan Boulevard, Satterlee Street and the shoreline, the Aakawaxung Munahanung Archaeological Site, a name meaning Island Protected from the Wind. Its boundaries closely follow those of the Ward's Point Archaeological Site, a National Historic Landmark since 1993. The commission counted this 1920s bungalow at 298 Satterlee Street as non-contributing, since it was built generations after the Indigenous occupation the designation honors.
Source: NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission

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