Manhattan · NYC landmark
Blackwell House
500 Main Street · Manhattan, New York City
A surviving farmhouse shows the island before its hospitals and apartment blocks, with a preserved porch and clapboard exterior.
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NYFE Summary
This farmhouse survives from the period when the Blackwell family owned and farmed the island. As the city developed hospitals and other institutions here, the house became a home for their administrators, including the almshouse warden.
Its clapboard walls, small windows and columned porch contrast with the surrounding apartment buildings. Restoration preserved the house when the island was redeveloped. It now serves as a place to tell Roosevelt Island’s history.
NYFE summary from the official history and visitor sources linked below.
Plan a visit
Check the operator’s current opening, admission and access information before travelling. Historic status does not guarantee public access to every interior.
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