Merchant's House Museum

Built 1832, for Joseph Brewster (1787-1854) who lived here for two years before selling to Seabury Tredwell (1780-1865) with whom it is best associated, his family having occupied it for just over an hundred years. This magnificent portal to the past is New York's oldest townhouse, its first ever designated landmark, and the only Historic House Museum in Greenwich - it also has the reputation of being among the most haunted houses in Manhattan. Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable called it "the real thing" - the only remaining house if its kind that gives a first-hand reflection into the world of early Gilded Age society in New York, so often portrayed in the literature of Henry James and Edith Wharton. Despite all of this, today the house finds itself under threat from property developers and needs support more than ever.