The Crystie Estate and its garden, photographed in 1924, were damaged in 1903 when a Yonkers trolley car failed to make the sharp turn from Broadway onto Main Street. The now-destroyed mansion was said to include portions of Peter Post's Revolutionary War tavern, where in 1778 Hessian cavalrymen drank the night before they were ambushed nearby by American troops including "Lighthorse Harry" Lee, Robert E. Lee's father.