Merchant's House Museum

New York · USA · Museum · Grusel 3/5

This red brick row house from 1832 is one of the best preserved nineteenth century homes on Manhattan.

This red brick row house from 1832 is one of the best preserved nineteenth century homes on Manhattan. The Tredwell family moved in during 1835 and lived here for a hundred years. The last of the line, Gertrude Tredwell, died in the house in 1933, aged 93, in the same room where she had been born. Since 1936 the house has been a museum, and virtually all the original furnishings remain, right down to the furniture and the wallpaper.

This is perhaps the best documented haunted house in New York, in the sense that the museum's own staff have recorded unexplained events since the 1930s. Gertrude is said to be the most present: scents of perfume, a grand piano from the 1840s that sometimes seems to play by itself, silhouettes on the stairs. The museum has even published a book about its spirits and holds ghost walks every October. Walk slowly through the rooms. Here the line between a preserved home and an inhabited place is thinner than anywhere else in the city.

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Merchant's House Museum liegt in New York, USA.

Image: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons