This is very good news. I have been to the Hamilton Manse several times and
the National Park rangers assigned there stated their hope of getting
funding for the move. The house is cramped between an apartment building
and a church and the park is very close by. Hopefully, this move will make
the Hamilton Manse a destination for those visiting New York City.
Virginia has so many of "the Founders" that Virginians might wonder why
other old states go to such great lengths to remember their few.
Harold S. Forsythe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Kukla" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 9:35 AM
Subject: Alexander Hamilton's Home Is Moving
> Looks like the Museum of the Confederacy's situation has a New York City
> parallel:
>
>
> Alexander Hamilton's Home Is Moving
> Source: NYT (7-12-06)
>
> 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.*
>
>
> Posted to HNN on Thursday, July 13, 2006
>
> *Technically he _did_ return from the duel at Weehawken, though he was
> mortally wounded and soon died.-jk
>
>
>
> Dr. Jon Kukla, Executive Vice-President
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