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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.
Mansion District: Built in 1860 as a private residence, the Governor's home was purchased by the State in 1883 for use as the state's executive mansion. It is the first and only state-owned building dedicated to housing the governor. [132] The Mansion Historic District's name originates from its proximity to the Executive Mansion. [133] 46
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]
General Philip Schuyler's mid-18th century decision to build a mansion on his lands there was the first development of any kind. Later, after his death, the Erie Canal and its related industrial development brought so many immigrants to the area that the city had to expand its boundaries, making the South End an end in name only.
In 1824 he hosted the Marquis de Lafayette at Cherry Hill on the Revolutionary War hero's return tour of the United States. [2] Three years later, the house would be the scene of a more ignominious event, the Cherry Hill murder. Among the 17 people living there in 1827 was John Whipple, a prosperous businessman who had married into the van ...
Schuyler acquired the mills, which he continued to operate, and a large parcel of land upon which he erected his elegant Federal style mansion. (The subsequent evolution of the Grove, in form, scale and decorative detailing, and its nineteenth-century historical associations place its primary significance in a later period as a 19th-century ...
The mansion’s design is attributed to noted Bluegrass area architect Major Thomas Lewinski. The original plantation encompassed 500 acres, of which about 40 acres remain today.
The area is almost flat, rising minimally away from the river, in contrast to the Mansion Historic District, which rises up the slope to the west. The district boundary is described as Madison Avenue on the north, South Ferry Street on the south, Dongan and Green streets on the east and South Pearl Street on the west. Bleeker, Franklin ...