What to see in America . versity since 1897. The University libraryis a particularly impressive building. All the section from 138th to 145th Street near AmsterdamA, ^o^was once owned by Alexander Hamilton, and therehe lived in what was a grand homestead then. The houseoccupied by Audubon, the naturalist, in his last years is atthe foot of 155th Street beside the river. When a com-mission laid out streets and avenues up to 155th Street in1807 it apologized for doing so much laying out, and acknowledged that prob-ably not for centurieswould most of thesestreets be occupied. On Harlem Heights at
What to see in America . versity since 1897. The University libraryis a particularly impressive building. All the section from 138th to 145th Street near AmsterdamA, ^o^was once owned by Alexander Hamilton, and therehe lived in what was a grand homestead then. The houseoccupied by Audubon, the naturalist, in his last years is atthe foot of 155th Street beside the river. When a com-mission laid out streets and avenues up to 155th Street in1807 it apologized for doing so much laying out, and acknowledged that prob-ably not for centurieswould most of thesestreets be occupied. On Harlem Heights at169th Street is the JumelMansion built in 1758 byan English colonel whomarried an American wifethat year. At the timeof the Revolution hewent to England, and theproperty was house was Wash-ingtons headquarters forthree months in 1776,and for the rest of thewar was occupied by theHessian Gen. Knyphau-p,_^,^^ ^ AT T? sen. Then it was a tav- Battleground Monument at Fort Washington ern for several years, but. 76 What to See in America in 1810 was purchased by Stephen Jumel, who had acquiredwealth as a coffee planter in San Domingo. He marriedthe daughter of an American sea captain in 1804. She wasa youthful widow who had eloped at the age of seventeen tomarry her first husband. For a time the Jumels lived inParis where she became a leader of fashion; and she made their New Yorkmansion famous forthe society she gath-ered round her 1832, a year afterMr. Jumels death,she married in thedrawing-room of thishistoric house AaronBurr, then seventy-eight years old; butshe soon tired ofhim, turned himout of doors, anddropped his continued todwell in the oldhouse until she diedin 1865 at the ageof ninety-six. The mansion now belongs to the Daughtersof the American Revolution. Between lS2d and 186th streets, on the highest pointof the island, with the Hudson on one side and the Harlemon the other, formerly stood Fort Washington. The Britishcaptured it after t
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