Text: Eli Benedict, “Site of the Old Harsen House,” New York Herald (New York, NY), vol. LXXXVI, no. 327, July 23, 1922, p. 26, col. 5

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TO THE NEW YORK HERALD: Having lived most of my life in the neighborhood I have always been familiar with the location of Mount Tom and the Harsen house.

Mount Tom was a local name given to a rocky hill in Riverside Park at about Eightieth street. It is a good point from which to observe the boats passing up and the river.

The Harsen house I remember as standing a short distance west of Broadway at Seventy-first street. Its site was just back of the present Sherman Square Hotel.

ELI BENEDICT.

UNADILLA, July 22.