the property. In 1846 Hughes deeded St. Joseph's College over to the Roman Catholic Jesuit Order (Society of Jesus) for $40,000, but retained title to the seminary property (about 9 acres of land). The seminary was closed in 1859. Today, a small south-west portion of the former Rose Hill estate is known as Rose Hill Park.

West of the village, on the other side of Fordham Hill, the Bathgate Estate was built; it was later acquired by wealthy financier and stock speculator Leonard Jerome,