Merchant's House Museum

Merchants House Museum is located at 29 E 4, New York, NY. This location is in the Murray Hill neighborhood..

You can rent the Museum and its garden for weddings, private parties, corporate events, still photography, and film shoots.

The Merchant’s House Museum is a perfectly preserved 19th-century home, complete with intact interiors, whose last resident is said to be the inspiration for Catherine Sloper in Henry James’s Washington Square. Today it stands as the sole remaining brick-and-marble row house on the block, luring in visitors who are curious to know how such a perfectly preserved gem of old New York could have...

Built in 1832, the Merchant's House Museum is a unique survivor of old New York. It is New York City's only family home preserved intact - inside and out - from the 19th century. Home to a prosperous merchant family for almost 100 years, it is complete with its original furniture, decorative arts, clothing, and personal memorabilia.

Architecturally, the Merchant's House is considered one of...

In ShortSeabury Tredwell, his wife, his eight children and numerous Irish-immigrant servant girls inhabited this dwelling. Forbidden by her father to marry, Gertrude Tredwell resolved to live a life of spinsterhood in the family home. She died in 1933 at age 92, having changed virtually nothing in the 100-year-old house. Ninety percent of the furnishings are original New York Federal, Victorian...

NYC's only family home preserved intact -- inside and out -- from the 19th century