An illustration of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, via Wiki Commons On July 11, 1804, Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton crossed paths for the last time. That…
Read MoreOn this date in 1804, just five days following his infamous duel with Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr sold two plots of land in our neighborhood. Why? Well, he was charged with multiple…
Read More…usually associate Aaron Burr with the Village. (I personally always associate him with New Jersey, where he was born, where he killed Alexander Hamilton, and where he is buried.) However,…
Read More…United States Vice Presidents with close ties to the Village — Aaron Burr and Theodore Roosevelt. Aaron Burr, Vice President (1801-1805) and Theodore Roosevelt, Vice President (1901) Aaron Burr, 3rd…
Read More…rivalry. Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton had been at loggerheads off and on throughout their careers, but escalating tensions between the two led to their face-off on a dueling ground…
Read More…has us reflecting back on Village history and preservation related to the famed New Yorker (and his rival, Aaron Burr). 54 MacDougal Street, pre-demolition 54 MacDougal Street Located in the…
Read More…site of the former Colonial estate Richmond Hill, built in 1767 and owned at one time by both John Adams and Aaron Burr. It also served for a short time…
Read More…October 19, 1817 Perry fought a duel with Captain John Heath on the same field where Alexander Hamilton faced Aaron Burr thirteen years earlier. Heath shot first and missed. Perry…
Read More…Eliza then went on to marry former vice president Aaron Burr the following year, only to file for divorce in 1834. Eliza continued to live in the mansion until she…
Read More…Hudson. During the Revolution, George Washington used it as his headquarters. It was then John Adams’s Vice-Presidential Mansion when New York City was the nation’s capitol. Aaron Burr later purchased…
Read More…Richmond Hill became the Vice-Presidential mansion and home of John Adams. After the capitol was moved, Aaron Burr (who would eventually succeed Adams as the country’s third Vice-President) bought the mansion and…
Read More…nation’s capitol. Aaron Burr later purchased the home. With the development of the City northwards and the evolution of Greenwich Village from a rural to a city landscape, Burr mapped…
Read More…South Village. It sits on a street grid designed by Aaron Burr in 1797, although the area was mostly developed between 1820 and 1829, cut out of a John Jacob…
Read More…great late 20th century pop cultural history. The house was built upon land owned by Aaron Burr, and had remarkable connections to both Burr, the 3rd Vice-President of the United…
Read More…to impeach President Nixon? Read more about that here. President Nixon gives his farewell speech. Courtesy of ABC News. We also can’t forget about our Vice Presidents! Aaron Burr. The…
Read More…They, in turn, sold it to Aaron Burr in 1791, who acquired a portion of the Bayard Farm contiguous to his estate “Richmond Hill”, which stood west of Sixth Avenue….
Read More…the business of our nation’s government was run out of Federal Hall, Richmond Hill became the Vice-Presidential mansion and home of John Adams. After the capitol was moved, Aaron Burr (who would…
Read More…years before Washington victoriously returned to Manhattan on November 25, 1783. Follwing the war, Richmond Hill was purchased by Aaron Burr, John Jacob Astor, and later became a theater and…
Read More…the Harlem River. Stephen Jumel and his wife Eliza purchased the house in 1810. Stephen Jumel died in 1832 and the following year Eliza married former Vice-President Aaron Burr. The…
Read More…capital, the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, the Erie Canal and the coming of the railroads, the growth of the city as a port and financial center, the…
Read More…becoming a ‘Village Getaway?’ (Architect’s Newspaper) Fire at Il Cantinori caused by a kitchen explosion (Eater) For sale: A loft owned by Aaron Burr & occupied by Jackson Pollack (Curbed)…
Read More…long after her husband’s death from a duel with Vice-President and longtime rival Aaron Burr. As the area changed from rural retreat to urban neighborhood, the orphanage moved uptown in…
Read More…Bayard whose home was near what today is Jane Street where Alexander Hamilton died after being shot in the infamous duel with Aaron Burr in 1804. Finally, there is Peter…
Read More…203 Prince Street stands (and the rest of the block) had formerly been part of Richmond Hill, the estate of former Vice-President Aaron Burr (who, by coincidence was arrested and charged with…
Read More…Hill, the Aaron Burr estate that also covered a good part of present day Greenwich Village. Another, even older Federal style house which GVSHP tried to save from the wrecking…
Read More…part of Aaron Burr’s estate, Richmond Hill. This individual landmark is located in the third phase of GVSHP’s proposed South Village historic district. 203 Prince Street is one of the…
Read More…fame; Samuel Bayard, whose brother’s home near present-day Jane Street was where Alexander Hamilton died after being shot in his duel with Aaron Burr; and Peter Stuyvesant, descendant of the…
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