The Historian · Eleanor · New York
Merchant's House Museum
This is the rarest thing in New York: a 19th-century home preserved with its original furniture, family possessions, and interiors intact. The Tredwell family lived here from 1835; the last daughter died in 1933 and it became a museum essentially unchanged. Walking in is the closest you'll get to stepping into 1850s domestic New York. (It's also famously said to be haunted.)
A Federal/Greek Revival row house frozen since the 1860s — the city's only fully intact 19th-century family home.
— Eleanor, The Historian
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