Alexander Hamilton Home Reopens In NYC After Move

NEW YORK — The former home of founding father Alexander Hamilton has reopened to the public after a four-year rehabilitation that saw the two-century-old house moved from a busy New York City street to a Harlem park.

The Hamilton Grange National Memorial was rededicated Saturday in St. Nicholas Park.

After fighting in the American Revolution and helping to create the federal government, Hamilton built the house in 1802 on what was then a country estate. He lived there for two years before being killed in a duel with Aaron Burr.

The development of Manhattan's street grid forced the relocation of the home to a spot on Convent Avenue in 1889.

The National Parks Service began moving the house to its current location in 2008 to give it a more historically appropriate setting.

Check out video from the 2008 relocation:

Comments

[Rteefact]

01:33 PM on 09/20/2011

Glad they saved it were losing too many historic relics of the past to progress, neglect and apathy

[vernsmaria]

11:03 AM on 09/19/2011

I spent a great deal of my childhood playing in that park. It's a big park with city college around the corner. It's a nice place to have the house and takes nothing from the kids that play there now.
Then again, there's lots of rocks to climb and it's on the perfect sled hill that the kids in my day used to use so, they might take that away.