Handle History With Care: Alexander Hamilton’s Home Is Moving
The National Park Service plans to move the Hamilton Grange National Memorial from Convent Avenue and 141st Street, where it is so boxed in by neighboring buildings that two of its porches had to be cut off, to St. Nicholas Park, about 300 feet to the southeast.
There, it can be reassembled in a form that Hamilton would have recognized, with porches — and trees — all around.
Designed by John McComb Jr., an architect of City Hall, the Grange was the seat of a 32-acre Manhattan estate that commanded views of both the Hudson and Harlem Rivers. Hamilton had only two years to enjoy it, however. He left the Grange on the morning of July 11, 1804, for a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr from which he did not return.
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There, it can be reassembled in a form that Hamilton would have recognized, with porches — and trees — all around.
Designed by John McComb Jr., an architect of City Hall, the Grange was the seat of a 32-acre Manhattan estate that commanded views of both the Hudson and Harlem Rivers. Hamilton had only two years to enjoy it, however. He left the Grange on the morning of July 11, 1804, for a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr from which he did not return.