Brown Plaza/Gazebo

The downtown gazebo stands on a small triangle of land where a bronze plaque identifies it as Brown Plaza, dedicated in 1913 to the Brown family’s three sisters: Misses Phoebe, Esther, and Elizabeth. Their grandfather, Nathaniel Brown, was a Peekskill merchant and Quaker, industrialist, and landowner in the late 1700s. As you stand on this site, looking south-southeast, note the buildings across Park Street with names and dates on the cornices: “The Eleanor,” “Dimond Building 1914,” and “Ballard Building 1915.”