Merchant’s House Museum

This late-Federal and Greek Revival rowhouse is a lone survivor of Old New York, the only family home preserved intact inside and out from the 19th century. Built in 1832, it was home to a prosperous merchant-class family and their Irish servants for nearly 100 years and has been preserved complete with the family’s original furnishings, household objects, personal possessions, and even their clothing. It offers an intimate glimpse of domestic life during the period when New York transformed from a mercantile seaport into a thriving metropolis and the center of U.S. commerce, revealing what daily life was like for wealthy families in this neighborhood and for their Irish servants, immigrants who fled famine and hardship in Ireland, without whom their employers’ comfortable lives were impossible.

New York, New York · United States