Hamilton Fish House
- Year
- 1804
- Style
- Federal
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The Hamilton Fish House is a brick Federal-style house built around 1804 by Peter Stuyvesant as a wedding present to his daughter Elizabeth and her husband Nicholas Fish. It's where their son, Hamilton Fish, later Governor and Senator of New York, was born in 1808 and lived until 1838. The house is now owned by Cooper Union and used as a residence for the college's president.
the building
An unusually wide house. The brick Federal house was unusually wide for its time, one of five houses the Stuyvesant family built along their own private lane on land they had held since the 17th century.
the style
Built in the Federal style typical of New York rowhouses in the early republic, the house predates the more ornate revival styles that would follow later in the 19th century.
More on Federalsignificance
The house was designated a New York City landmark in 1965 and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975, recognition tied directly to Hamilton Fish's own political career.
nearby
- Ottendorfer Public Library and Stuyvesant Polyclinic Hospital
- Ottendorfer Library
- Saint Mark's-in-the-Bowery Church
- Metropolitan Savings Bank
- St. George's Church
- United States Post Office Cooper Station