Mount Vernon Hotel Museum
- Year
- 1799
- Style
- Federal
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, formerly the Abigail Adams Smith Museum, is a historic building at 421 East 61st Street near the East River on the Upper East Side. One of the few surviving pre-1800 buildings in Manhattan, it was originally planned in 1795 as an estate for Colonel William S. Smith and his wife, Abigail, though they never completed it.
the building
From carriage house to hotel. The building was ultimately constructed in 1799 as a carriage house and stable for the nearby estate of William T. Robinson. Joseph Coleman Hart bought it and converted it into a day hotel in 1826, offering city dwellers a retreat from the noise of downtown as commercial New York grew after the Erie Canal opened.
the style
The building is an example of Federal architecture, reflecting its construction date of 1799.
More on Federalsignificance
It has operated as a museum since 1924 under the Colonial Dames of America and is a New York City Individual Landmark (LP-00426), listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the New York State Register of Historic Places, designated 1/24/1967.
nearby
- Manhattan House
- River House (New York City)
- Church of Saint Vincent Ferrer Complex
- Park East Synagogue
- Chapel of the Good Shepherd
- Central Presbyterian Church