The Historian · Eleanor · New York
57 Maiden Lane ('Room Where It Happened' plaque)
This is my favorite kind of site: an ordinary office block with a plaque most people pass without a glance. Near here, in June 1790, Thomas Jefferson hosted a dinner where he, Madison, and Hamilton struck the Compromise of 1790 — Madison would let Hamilton's federal debt-assumption plan pass, and in exchange the national capital would move south to the Potomac. The whole financial architecture of the United States, decided over dinner. The musical called it 'the room where it happens.'
A plaque marking the 1790 dinner where Hamilton, Jefferson, and Madison traded the capital for the debt plan.
— Eleanor, The Historian
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