After more than a year and a half of renovation and landscaping, the historic bathhouse at Kingsland Point Park will re-open at the end of the month.

The ribbon cutting ceremony for the newly-named Kathryn W. Davis RiverWalk Center, will take place on Tuesday, May 31, from 10 to 11:30 a.m.

The event will include a walk-through of the new facilities as members of Scenic Hudson explain how the building will operate and what types of activities and educational facilities will be available to the public.

Tarrytown philanthropist Kathryn Davis, who pledged $4 million to Scenic Hudson to transform the dilapidated building, is also expected to attend the ceremony.

For 85 years, the building has been a fixture in the county-owned park. The bathhouse opened in the summer of 1926 and soon became a bustling building that provided some 80,000 beach-goers with a place to change into their swimsuits and store their belongings before ­­heading out onto the 1,000 feet of sandy beach along the Hudson. But as the popularity of swimming diminished, and the beach eroded, so did the state of the bathhouse building. 

The bathhouse renovation has been a collaboration between Poughkeepsie-based Scenic Hudson, Westchester County Parks Department, and The Friends of Westchester County Parks. Mrs. Davis and the Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation awarded Scenic Hudson a bequest to preserve and protect properties along the Hudson, with $4 million earmarked for the renovation of the bathhouse. Through an interest-free loan from The Pew Charitable Trusts and donations from other local philanthropists, Scenic Hudson has been able to advance funds for the project.

Since construction began in Fall of 2009, and the facility has been transformed into a modern center for education and recreation. The main building will feature an open-air pavilion with picnic tables where people can enjoy views of the Hudson River. The facility will be open to park goers and may be rented out for parties and events. The building also features classrooms that are ideal for local environmental education classes.

The Village of Sleepy Hollow will be in charge of renting out the space, and is currently looking to lease the lower levels of the building to educational non-for-profit organizations, or businesses that would provide water-related activities.