A Town of Rye mansion renting by the hour: $425 for residents and $550 for non residents, three hour minimum. You bring the caterer.
Crawford Mansion is owned by the Town of Rye, which means the rates are printed on a public rate sheet instead of quoted over the phone. The Great Hall, which covers the entire first floor at roughly 2,400 square feet, is $425.00 an hour for residents on a three hour minimum and $550.00 an hour for non residents. Non profit rates are $320.00 and $415.00. Lower resident rates apply to Port Chester, Rye Brook and Rye Neck. A refundable security deposit of 40 percent of the rental fee applies, and one complimentary set up hour is included. Read the next sentence before you get excited. This is a space only rental: the Town does not cater, there is no bar, and the kitchen appliances may be used only by a licensed caterer with proof and insurance on file. The published capacity is nothing at all. The Town says capacity varies with the set up and flow of your event.
These are real published rates, and the cheapest venue line in this group by a wide margin. The rate sheet is filed as the 2025 schedule and carries no internal date. Confirm the current figures before you build a budget. Remember what the money buys: hours in a room. Food, bar, rentals, staff and the licensed caterer’s insurance are all yours to arrange. Ask for the Great Hall layouts document, because capacity is the number the Town will not publish.
The Crawford Park rentals, rental spaces and availability pages, the Town of Rye parks rental information and history pages, and the Town’s published rate sheet, all read on 11 September 2026. Checked September 2026. First party means the business’s own site or rate card. Marketplace means The Knot, WeddingWire, Zola, Wedding Spot or similar. Nothing here is averaged or estimated.
The only rate sheet on the Town’s site is the 2025 schedule and it carries no year inside the document, so verify the current rates. Capacity is not published at all, and this is a space only rental with no in house catering and no bar.
The Great Hall runs $425.00 an hour for residents with a three hour minimum, $320.00 for resident non profits, $550.00 for non residents and $415.00 for non resident non profits. The second floor activity rooms are rented individually at $50.00 an hour for residents on a two hour minimum, $40.00 for resident non profits, $65.00 for non residents and $50.00 for non resident non profits. The picnic pavilion is $165.00 an hour for residents on a two hour minimum, rising to $215.00 for non residents. Each sports field is $40.00 an hour for residents and $50.00 for non residents, on a one hour minimum.
A three hour Great Hall booking at the resident rate is therefore $1,275.00 before anything else. At the non resident rate it is $1,650.00. That is the entire venue cost line for a wedding of this kind, which is a different order of magnitude from every other venue in this group.
There is one important caveat and it is not small. The only rate sheet the Town publishes is filed under a name that identifies it as the 2025 schedule, and it carries no year inside the document. It was still the live link from the Town’s rental information page on 11 September 2026. Treat every figure here as 2025 pricing and confirm the current year’s rates with the rental office before you budget.
The Town publishes its extras. An additional non event hour is $150.00, deliveries $75.00, tent placement $200.00 and security $45.00 an hour. A television is $75.00, chairs and stools run $4.50 to $8.00 each, a grill is $25.00 and the piano is $150.00.
Most venues bury these. Having them printed means you can build a fairly accurate total before you speak to anybody, and it means the surprises at signature are small ones. A refundable security deposit of 40 percent of the total rental fee applies on top, and the Town states a full refund is available if the renter cancels six weeks or more before the event.
The Town rents the room and nothing else. There is no in house catering, no bar and no per person figure, because there is no food. The published rule on the kitchen is specific: the kitchen appliances may be used only by a licensed caterer, with proof and insurance required.
No preferred vendor list is published and no outside vendor fee is published, so you are free to choose. Free also means responsible. You are hiring the caterer, the bar service, the rentals and the staff, and you are managing the timings between them. Some couples save a great deal of money this way. Others discover they have accidentally taken a second job.
Capacity is genuinely not published. The Town states that the total indoor space is approximately 2,400 square feet and that guest capacity varies depending on the set up and flow of your event. A Great Hall layouts document is referenced on the Town’s site, and no seated or cocktail maximum is stated anywhere.
Ask the rental office for the layout document and for the seated number that has actually worked in the room, with a caterer’s service space and a dance floor included. For a rough sanity check, 2,400 square feet is the whole first floor of a house, not a banquet hall, so this is a wedding of moderate size.
Everett Lake Crawford bought the 30 acre Satterlee farm in May 1904 and named it Shanarock Farm. The mansion was built soon after. When Crawford died in 1960 he left the property to the Town of Rye for use as a public park, subject to his widow Edna’s right to live there.
The Town acquired the mansion and the full property in 1971, and took complete ownership when Edna died in 1973. The architect is not published and we did not find one. The history is on the Town’s own parks page rather than on a wedding brochure, which is a reasonable indication of how this place sees itself.
The mansion, the picnic pavilion and seven sports fields are separately rentable spaces in the same park, and the Town publishes a public availability calendar rather than an exclusivity policy. Your ceremony may share a Saturday with a soccer league.
Ask what else is booked in the park on your date. Ask whether the pavilion is let to another party, and where your guests will park. Ask also about an end time. The availability calendar loads dynamically and we could not confirm a published curfew, though one complimentary set up hour before the event is included.
A five hour Great Hall rental at non resident rates, with tent placement and four hours of security, comes to $2,750.00 plus $200.00 plus $180.00 at the 2025 published rates. Add the refundable 40 percent deposit and you are still well under what a catering hall charges for the room alone.
Everything else, the food, the bar, the rentals, the staff, the flowers and the music, you are buying separately at market price. This venue is cheap to rent and it is not automatically a cheap wedding. It rewards couples who enjoy organising, and it punishes couples who wanted somebody else to do it.
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