History:

Bronxville’s Local History Room, a treasure trove of material on the history of the Village currently occupies over 800 square feet in the Library's lower level. It is managed by the Village Historian, Eloise L. Morgan and is supported by the Village of Bronxville and the Bronxville Historical Conservancy.

In 2001, the History Room was remodeled and expanded, and for the first time the collection was held in an archivally-sound environment. A climate control system dedicated to the room maintains constant levels of relative temperature and humidity. It houses over 700 linear feet of metal shelving, a map case, cabinetry, a locked "treasure" storage unit, work tables for the public, a photocopier, computer and historian's desk.

The Local History Room is primarily a documentary archive of early Bronxville and its people, although it contains a limited number of artifacts. Thousands of black and white photographs and negatives (including some rare glass negatives), supplemented by several hundred early black and white and colored postcards, record the images of more than a century of Village life. Research files cover topics ranging from Artists and Architecture to Zoning and include Bronxville people, organizations and events. An almost complete set of Bronxville's weekly newspapers, from 1902 to 2006, is available either on microfilm or in bound volumes. Paper copies of an online Bronxville weekly, myhometownBronxville.com, are maintained in the History room. Researchers can access issues of "The Villager," a local magazine published several times a year by the Bronxville Women's Club, dating from 1923 to 2003.