Manhattan · NYC landmark
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum
421 East 61st Street · Manhattan, New York City
A surviving nineteenth-century country hotel offers a small museum about leisure and travel in early New York.
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NYFE Summary
The building began as a carriage house on a country estate. After the main house burned, it was converted into a day hotel in 1826. New Yorkers came here for leisure away from the crowded city at the southern end of Manhattan. The hotel operated for only a few years before the building became a family home.
Later uses included housing for gas-company workers and Italian immigrants, and a soup kitchen. The museum now focuses on the day-hotel period. Guided visits use furnished rooms and the garden to explain how guests spent time here, when this part of the island was still a country destination.
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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