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Schuyler Mansion is a historic house at 32 Catherine Street in Albany, New York. The brick mansion is now a museum and an official National Historic Landmark . It was constructed from 1761 to 1765 for Philip Schuyler , later a general in the Continental Army and early U.S. Senator , who resided there from 1763 until his death in 1804.
George Washington visited, leading the city to rename the road down to the mansion Washington Street. In 1780, Washington's aide Alexander Hamilton married Schuyler's daughter Elizabeth on the grounds. The following year, even as the Patriot victory loomed, Loyalist forces raided the house in an attempt to kidnap Burgoyne. [8]
The house was built c. 1760 along King's Highway (now Morris Street) on the eastern edge of what was then the small village of Morristown. [5] In 1765 , Dr. Jabez Campfield , a young doctor from Newark, bought the house when he moved to Morristown with his new wife, Sarah Ward, to establish his medical practice. [ 6 ]
Nut Grove, a former mansion on the south boundary of the city, is now part of a substance-abuse rehabilitation facility, [37] following its use as a hospice. [38] The Schuyler Mansion, another former center of a large estate, was used as an orphanage between the family's occupancy and its acquisition by the state. [39]
General Philip Schuyler built the Schuyler Mansion around 1761 overlooking the pastureland of the Dutch Church.After Schuyler's death in 1804, his property was subdivided, with streets laid out and lots sold.
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