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
Red Hill - The Patrick Henry National Memorial
1250 Red Hill Road
Brookneal, Virginia 24528
www.redhill.org

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