Morris-Jumel Mansion

Morris-Jumel Mansion can be found at Jumel Ter 65. The following is offered: Theater. The entry is present with us since Sep 9, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 14, 2013. In New York there are 124 other Theater. An overview can be found here.

If you see a ghostly apparition, know that it's probably the lady of the house, Eliza Jumel.

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One of the city’s handful of survivors from colonial days, this Palladian-style mansion in Washington Heights is the oldest house in Manhattan. It sits on tree-shaded grounds atop Mount Morris. The mansion is now a house museum, and you can tour handsome period rooms that include George Washington’s Bedchamber & Study. The general not only slept here; he lived here—for two months in 1776.

The Morris-Jumel Mansion is perhaps most famous for the fact that George Washington really did sleep here! Washington made his headquarters here at the Mansion during the fall of 1776. It was during this period that the General's troops forced a British retreat at the Battle of Harlem Heights.

The house was built eleven years before the Revolution, in 1765, by British Colonel Roger Morris and...

In Short
Built on a sprawling country estate in 1765, this house is the city's oldest and once simultaneously hosted four presidents of the United States--George Washington, John Adams,...

Washington made his headquarters here at the Mansion during the fall of 1776. It was during this period that the General's troops forced a British retreat at the Battle of Harlem Heights. The house was built eleven years before the Revolution, in 1765, by British Colonel Roger Morris and his American wife, Mary Philipse. The breezy hilltop location proved an ideal location for the family's...