Site link: The Philip Severin Collection
Philip Severin 1894-1986
Known as “Mr. Larchmont” Philip Severin was a lifelong resident of Larchmont who played an integral role in the evolution of our present-day community. Severin was a realtor, developer, planner, landscape architect, historian, artist and writer. He recorded his surroundings and experiences in both his art and his writing, preserving a record of life in Larchmont that brings the past to life today. His contributions are memorialized in a plaque in the West Gazebo of Manor Park.
The Historical Society acquired a collection of his original sketches in 2006 and is gradually scanning and posting them in this digital presentation of his work.
Philip was born in 1894 in Ne York City. The Severin family moved to Larchmont in 1899. They lived on 28 picturesque acres know as Wilmarth Farms, stretching from the Post Road to Palmer Avenue and from Chatsworth to the stone wall along Concord Avenue, Virginia Place, Devon Road and Nassau Road. His father, Jacob Zvirin (name changed later) was a printer who also operated Zvirin’s News Store. The Historical Society is fortunate to have several of the beautiful photo postcards what he published and sold to residents of Larchmont Village in the early 1900s.
