Living your best life in New York City and not anywhere near a brownstone. Photographs from an album kept by William Seton (a relative of Mother Seton) of life at Cragdon, his 51 acre estate in what is now Edenwald in the Bronx (then part of Eastchester).

Front cover of an 1866 photo album titled Cragdon which has portraits and views of the Cragdon Estate at Eastchester, New York. Alfred Booth and Thomas E. Jevons, photographers. Collections of the Getty Museum. Cc0 License 4.0. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104HFJ
The Falls. Page from an 1866 photo album titled Cragdon which has portraits and views of the Cragdon Estate at Eastchester, New York. Alfred Booth and Thomas E. Jevons, possible photographers. Collections of the Getty Museum. Cc0 License 4.0. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104HFJ#full-artwork-details
Coasting. Page from an 1866 photo album titled Cragdon which has portraits and views of the Cragdon Estate at Eastchester, New York. Alfred Booth and Thomas E. Jevons, possible photographers. Collections of the Getty Museum. Cc0 License 4.0. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104HFJ#full-artwork-details
Roses on the deserted Piazza. Page from an 1866 photo album titled Cragdon which has portraits and views of the Cragdon Estate at Eastchester, New York. Alfred Booth and Thomas E. Jevons, possible photographers. Collections of the Getty Museum. Cc0 License 4.0. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104HFJ#full-artwork-details
Croquet. Page from an 1866 photo album titled Cragdon which has portraits and views of the Cragdon Estate at Eastchester, New York. Alfred Booth, photographer. Collections of the Getty Museum. Cc0 License 4.0. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104HFJ#full-artwork-details
A Brilliant Spring Morning: Larch Budding. Page from an 1866 photo album titled Cragdon which has portraits and views of the Cragdon Estate at Eastchester, New York. Alfred Booth and Thomas E. Jevons, possible photographers. Collections of the Getty Museum. Cc0 License 4.0. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104HFJ#full-artwork-details
The Piazza. Page from an 1866 photo album titled Cragdon which has portraits and views of the Cragdon Estate at Eastchester, New York. Thomas E. Jevons, photographer. Collections of the Getty Museum. Cc0 License 4.0. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104HFJ#full-artwork-details
Above the Falls. Page from an 1866 photo album titled Cragdon which has portraits and views of the Cragdon Estate at Eastchester, New York. Alfred Booth and Thomas E. Jevons, possible photographers. Collections of the Getty Museum. Cc0 License 4.0. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104HFJ#full-artwork-details
Group with croquet mallets. Page from an 1866 photo album titled Cragdon which has portraits and views of the Cragdon Estate at Eastchester, New York. Alfred Booth and Thomas E. Jevons, possible photographers. Collections of the Getty Museum. Cc0 License 4.0. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104HFJ#full-artwork-details
Back of the Garden. Page from an 1866 photo album titled Cragdon which has portraits and views of the Cragdon Estate at Eastchester, New York. Alfred Booth and Thomas E. Jevons, possible photographers. Collections of the Getty Museum. Cc0 License 4.0. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104HFJ#full-artwork-details
The Brook Above the Falls. Page from an 1866 photo album titled Cragdon which has portraits and views of the Cragdon Estate at Eastchester, New York. Alfred Booth and Thomas E. Jevons, possible photographers.Collections of the Getty Museum. Cc0 License 4.0. https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/104HFJ#full-artwork-details

I didn’t find this one. Rob Stephenson who writes on Substack at https://theneighborhoods.substack.com/ did. I am doing my best not to use the same pictures. If you are interested in New York City history please check out his work. I found this album in this, his latest post https://theneighborhoods.substack.com/p/edenwald-the-bronx?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1520650&post_id=176917523&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=kbn1g&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email