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Merchant's House Museum · 29 East 4th Street
Merchant's House Museum
Merchant's House Museum

Changing New York; Doorway: Tredwell House

Greek Revival doorway at 29 East 4th Street between Lafayette Street and the Bowery. Also known as the Old Merchant's House.

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The Merchant’s House Museum is a historic house museum dedicated to the early 19th century domestic life of a wealthy merchant family and their servants in New York City. It is one of the finest surviving examples of the architecture of this period in the city and it is unique among house museums because the museum’s collection of over 3,000 items belonged to the Tredwell family, who lived there for almost 100 years. Most of it has never left the house!

Click here for an interview with Museum docent Jackie Dinas in Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History.

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