The Demarest-Lyle House: Saving a Tenafly Treasure

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The Demarest-Lyle House Saving a Tenafly
Treasure

• Eva Lerner-Lam
• Presentation to Tenafly Rotary ClubThe Clinton
  Inn
• May 10, 2001

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Description of the Site

• 91 West Clinton Avenue
• About ½ acre, single building (with annex)
• Original structure built around 1790
• State and National Registers of Historic Places
• 100 privately owned and operated

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Historical Significance

• Six architectural episodes
• Typical of farmhouse vernacular that flourished
  in the Hackensack valley in the eighteenth and
  early nineteenth centuries
• Remarkable survival of much of the 1868
  renovation

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Duty and Inspiration

• Impasse in 1990s
• Mosley, Savastano, Miller, Wilson, Kieronski,
  Ballou, Haynes, Tremble, Chillino, Thompson,
  Mendozaand two special friends

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The Amati Music Conservatory

• Private, non-profit music school for children
• World-class faculty
• Piano, violin, viola, cello, flute and theory
• Performances in NYC and metro area, including
  Carnegie Hall and John Harms Theater

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