The Schuyler House

In September 1777, an officer in British General John Burgoyne’s invading army wrote of passing Hudson’s river and encamping in the plains of Saratoga, where there stood a handsome and commodious dwelling-house, the country home of wealthy landowner Philip Schuyler, shown on a map based on one drawn by an English Army engineer. Less than a month later, with his army reeling in defeat, Burgoyne ordered the house burned so that the Americans could not use it for cover, yet he was forced to surrender his army on October 17, 1777, in a field not far from the smoldering ruins. Within weeks, Schuyler was earnestly engaged in building a house at this place, and by the end of November 1777 the present building was completed, possibly built in part upon the foundation of the old dwelling-house. The present Schuyler House has been carefully restored to its 1787-1804 appearance.

Schuylerville, New York · United States