Alexander Hamilton's house moved to St. Nicholas Park
The Hamilton Grange finally made its move Saturday, all 298-tons of the historic house.
The national monument was the home of Alexander Hamilton from 1802 - 1804 and the new location is within part of his original property line.
In May at its old home on Convent Avenue, the house was slowly lifted nearly 40 feet in the air on a jenga-like system of steel rails and wooden towers called cribbing. It was moved out into the middle of the street and this past Saturday, rolled around the corner and down the hill where it was slipped into Saint Nicholas Park among tall shade trees, grass and rocky outcroppings.
The next step is to slide the house over onto its new foundation and complete interior and exterior repairs.It will reopen to the public in 2009. (However, the The Friends of Hamilton Grange have filed suit in hopes of forcing the National Park Service to turn the house in another direction.)
NewYorkology toured the site in May with Stephen Spaulding, the chief of NPS’ northeast architectural preservation division.
