Merchant's House
The Merchant's House is a row house built in 1831 - 1832 by
developer Joseph Brewster and purchased by merchant Seabury Treadwell
in 1835. Treadwell's last daughter, Gertrude, lived in the house until 1933,
leaving it largely unchanged and unmodernized so that it became a time
capsule of upper class life in ninteenth-century New York. The parlors
are fine examples of Greek Revival architecture. The house was converted
to a museum in 1935 and underwent restoration in 1979. When I visited
in the Fall of 2007, it was undergoing another set of renovations,
which accounts for the presence of construction equipment in the photos.
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Mother's bedroom |
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Rear view |
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Cistern cover |
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Rear garden |
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Kitchen |
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Kitchen |
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Family room |
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Study |
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Father's bedroom |
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Front parlor |
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Rear parlor |
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Call bells for servants in the kitchen |
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