A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . o led theminuet in these rooms and gave royalist belles a tasteof the court splendors of King George. Whetherthis historic house is to be destroyed or to linger yeta little longer will be determined by the market valueof the lots on which it stands.* The mansion which Washington occupied as hisheadquarters on the day of the victory at HarlemPlains — the Roger Morris house — stands on theheights that overlook Harlem River, a little below * The Apthorpe mansion, long degraded to a beer-garden, has dis-appeared
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . o led theminuet in these rooms and gave royalist belles a tasteof the court splendors of King George. Whetherthis historic house is to be destroyed or to linger yeta little longer will be determined by the market valueof the lots on which it stands.* The mansion which Washington occupied as hisheadquarters on the day of the victory at HarlemPlains — the Roger Morris house — stands on theheights that overlook Harlem River, a little below * The Apthorpe mansion, long degraded to a beer-garden, has dis-appeared (1892). Its site will soon be covered by flats. The finecluster of buildings for the new St. Agnes Chapel of Trinity Parish—church, clergy-house, choir and schoolrooms, etc.—stands upon a portionof the old Apthorpe ground. 230 A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK the High Bridge. It always seemed to me a strangechance that led the American general to this roof. The loyalist owner ofthe property had beenWashingtons old com-panion-in-arms, and hiswife was the beautifulMary Phillipse, whom. THE JUMEL MANSION the provincial Colonel Washington, visiting New Yorkafter the defeat of Braddock and his own brilliantachievements on the unfortunate field of Fort DuQuesne, had wooed in vain. It will be a pity if noone comes forward to purchase and preserve the housefor its historical association, for as from no point onthe Island of Manhattan can so commanding a viewbe obtained, so none of the old colonial homesteadshas so many and varied historical associations. Builtof bricks brought from Holland, the house has been alandmark from the day of its completion. GeneralWashington planned his battles in its library, and herealso he held consultations with the chiefs of the Indian A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 23I tribes, and gave his secret instructions to the spy ofthe neutral ground. The estate was confiscated afterthe Revolution, and then it was purchased by JohnJacob Astor, who made half a million dolla
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