Hamilton Fish House

Historic house in Manhattan, New York

United States historic place

Significant dates

Hamilton Fish House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
New York City Landmark


40°43′49″N 73°59′20″W / 40.73028°N 73.98889°W / 40.73028; -73.98889
Built	1804 (1804)
Architectural style	Federal
Part of	St. Mark's Historic District (ID74001276)
NRHP reference No.	72001456^[1]
Added to NRHP	July 31, 1972^[1]
Designated NHL	May 15, 1975^[2]
Designated CP	November 13, 1974
Designated NYCL	October 14, 1965

The Hamilton Fish House, also known as the Stuyvesant Fish House and Nicholas and Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish House, is where Hamilton Fish (1808–93), later Governor and Senator of New York, was born and resided from 1808 to 1838.^[3] It is at 21 Stuyvesant Street, a diagonal street within the Manhattan street grid, between 9th and 10th Streets in the East Village neighborhood of New York City. It is owned by Cooper Union and used as a residence for the college's president.^[4]

History

The brick Federal style house, which was unusually wide for its time^[5] was built by Peter Stuyvesant, the great-grandson of Petrus Stuyvesant, around 1804 as a wedding present to his daughter, Elizabeth, and his son-in-law, Nicholas Fish, parents of Hamilton.^[6] It was one of five houses owned by the family on their private lane. The land had been the property of the family since the 17th century.^[6]

The house remained in the hands of Fish family descendants until roughly the turn of the 20th century. It served for a time as a rooming house thereafter before undergoing restoration in the 1960s.^[3] The house was designated a New York City landmark in 1965,^[6] and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975.^[2]^[3]^[7] It also lies within the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission's St. Mark's Historic District which surrounds the nearby St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery.

The house is of national significance as the only surviving home of Fish, who served as Secretary of State during the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant. Fish successfully negotiated the 1871 Treaty of Washington with Great Britain, ushering in a period of peace and cooperation between the two countries.^[3]

References

Notes

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ ^a ^b "Hamilton Fish House". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. September 15, 2007. Archived from the original on June 5, 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Alexander, Cathy A. (September 1, 1974). "Hamilton Fish House" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination. National Park Service. Retrieved June 19, 2018.
^ Hall, Trish (April 15, 2001). "Habitats/Stuyvesant Street, East Village; A House for a President -- And Also for a Dean". The New York Times. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
^ White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot (2000). AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.). New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-8129-3107-5., p.173
^ ^a ^b ^c New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission; Dolkart, Andrew S.; Postal, Matthew A. (2009). Postal, Matthew A. (ed.). Guide to New York City Landmarks (4th ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1., p.67
^ "Hamilton Fish House—Accompanying three photos, exterior, from 1963 and 1974" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places Inventory. National Park Service. 1983.

External links

Media related to Stuyvesant-Fish House at Wikimedia Commons
American Memory from the Library of Congress
National Register of Historical Places Application
Landmarks Preservation Commission Notes from 1965

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