With surpassing dignity and surprising agility — for a 206-year-old — Alexander Hamilton’s country home, the Grange, lumbered down the West 141st Street hillside on Saturday morning to its new setting in St. Nicholas Park.
Witnessing a House, and History, on the Move
Under the eyes of neighbors from Harlem and Hamilton Heights, a moving crew composed mainly of German Baptist Brethren from Pennsylvania, often mistaken for Amish in their plain dress, guided the two-story, 298-ton house on a 3 hour 40 minute trip from its former site on Convent Avenue.
It turns out that the Grange, whose architect also worked on City Hall, is capable of doing about 0.04 miles per hour. (It is unclear how quickly City Hall can move.)
In its new setting, the house will be restored by the National Park Service and reopened to the public next year. The project’s cost is $8.4 million.
4 comments:
Why does NYC government consider our public spaces and parkland potential development sites. Across the city our parks seem to exist for the next political give-a-way. Why move Alex Hamiliton house into an existing park. It would have been better to knock down everything around the original house and expand the park.
Tennis stadiums, Musuems, Police Stations, Olympics, Worlds Fairs is their no end. This city's record on parks is truly sad, the animals who live in these parks are earthlings just like us. For once lets try and see the big picture and what is important in our lives and our relationship with nature.
"This city's record on parks is truly sad, the animals who live in these parks are earthlings just like us. For once lets try and see the big picture and what is important in our lives and our relationship with nature."
Well said. They say they want to bring MORE green to the city and then do the opposite.
Why does NYC government consider our public spaces and parkland potential development sites.
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The same reason that playgounds are sites for libraries and schools.
The people that run this city are a bunch of two bit losers ready to sell out the developers.
The preservation community has its head up its ass, and media loves adverstising dollar$.
"Why does NYC government consider our public spaces and parkland potential development sites"
Hate to say it but I think personal corruption at the highest levels plays a very big part in this.
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