Treasures’ History

In 2018-19, Treasures celebrated 50 years of service to our community. Founded by Mildred MacDonald in 1968, and reinvigorated in 1993 by the efforts of Ginger Eliasberg, Treasures has always been staffed by a group of dedicated, hard-working volunteers from St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church and the surrounding community.

We are excited to unveil our logo with it's new background of "Episcopal Red". Originating in England during the Middle Ages, Episcopal Church doors were painted red as a sign of sanctuary and represented protection from spiritual evil. As soon as it gets warmer, we will be painting the doors into Treasures this color as well.

Fifty percent of our net proceeds each year go to support our community partners. Through your donations and purchases, we help others in our neighborhood and provide an alternative to landfills.

We thank all our many patrons and volunteers for their continued interest in our thrift shop.

St. Stephen’s History

The formal organization of St. Stephen’s took place on October 10, 1842. The Reverend Harris, formerly of Grace Church, was appointed rector. One of the building committee members, Elisha Sutton, offered a quarter of an acre of land at the northeast corner of his farm for a church site and no more than two thousand dollars could be spent on the building.

As St. Stephen’s developed, so did the community around it. When Elisha Sutton died, he bequeathed the rest of his farm (14 acres) to St. Stephen’s, which decided to sub-divide it into plots and sell them for residences and businesses. Many of these plots on Bedford Road remain the same today as they were then. One of St. Stephen’s earliest Vestrymen, Nehemiah Searles, purchased a plot and built a house for his family in 1850. The house is still there and now serves as St. Stephen’s Rectory. Nehemiah Searles and his wife and children are buried in the cemetery, just yards from the house that he built. During the 1850s this new sub-division began to become known as ‘Armonk’, taken from an Indian word, meaning ‘Fishing Place between the Hills’.

Thus it was that St. Stephen’s helped to found modern-day Armonk.