A landmark history of New York; also the origin of street names and a bibliography . and the ceno-taph of President Monroe. The last named died inthis city July 4, 1831, at the house of his daughterin Prince Street, east of Broadway. Twenty-sevenyears later the State of Virginia claimed the remainsof her illustrious son, andunder military escort theywere transferred to Rich-mond. Before leaving thissection we wended ourway through the quietpaths of Audubon Park,extending from One Hun-dred and Fifty-fifth toOne Hundred and Fifty-eighth Street along theHudson. Here, in thesouthwest corner of the
A landmark history of New York; also the origin of street names and a bibliography . and the ceno-taph of President Monroe. The last named died inthis city July 4, 1831, at the house of his daughterin Prince Street, east of Broadway. Twenty-sevenyears later the State of Virginia claimed the remainsof her illustrious son, andunder military escort theywere transferred to Rich-mond. Before leaving thissection we wended ourway through the quietpaths of Audubon Park,extending from One Hun-dred and Fifty-fifth toOne Hundred and Fifty-eighth Street along theHudson. Here, in thesouthwest corner of the park, we saw the home of Audubon, and, close by, aRevolutionary redoubt, near which is a group ofhandsome houses and well-kept grounds, whose ownershave never found it necessary to build fences or erectbarriers of any kind against their neighbors. Our next stopping place was at One Hundredand Sixty-first Street, just east of St. XicholasAvenue, where, inclosed in a fine garden, we behelda well-preserved and picturesque colonial mansionstanding aloof from its modern Mc^.CZ 130 A LANDMARK HISTORY OF NEW YORK This, said the professor, is one of the mostinteresting houses on Manhattan Island, It waserected in 1758 by Roger Morris, husband of MaryPhilipse, a highly educated and very beautiful lady,who belonged to the well-known Philipse family. Afew years before, Washington, while in Xew York,had met Miss Mary, and, so the story goes, fallen inlove with her. It is even said that he proposed toher and was refused, but this fact has never been es-tablished. Duty soon called Washington away toFort Daquesne, giving Captain Morris, who had beenWashingtons fellow aid-de-camp under Braddock,an opportunity to woo and win the fair lady. Mor-ris became a royalist, and in 1776 his estate was for-feited. That same year Washington used the houseas his headquarters, and later the Hessian general,Knyphausen, occupied it. After the Revolution,under its hospitable roof, Washington, J
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