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Title
The Morris-Jumel mansion
Published
[New York : Scalamandré Silks, Inc, 1950?]
Description
[24] p. : ill. ; 22cm.
Call Number
728.09747 T589 1950
System Control No.
(OCoLC)82601695
Note
"4 of a series of brochures published by Scalamandré Silks, Inc."
Caption title.
Cover title: Roger Morris Jumel Mansion.
"Roger Morris Jumel Mansion built 1765, Washington headquarters in New York"--p. [1].
The house was built in 1765, by British Colonel Roger Morris and his American wife, Mary Philipse. Known as Mount Morris, this northern Manhattan estate stretched from the Harlem to the Hudson Rivers and covered more than 130 acres, later purchased & renovated by Stephen Jumel & his wife Eliza Jumel who remarried Aaron Burr; the mansion is built in the Palladian style, with a second story balcony and a two-story front portico supported by classical columns. The two-story octagon at the rear of the house is believed to be the first of its kind anywhere in the colonies.
Library has 2 copies; c. 1 (L2010G13); c. 2 (A 5815)
Caption title.
Cover title: Roger Morris Jumel Mansion.
"Roger Morris Jumel Mansion built 1765, Washington headquarters in New York"--p. [1].
The house was built in 1765, by British Colonel Roger Morris and his American wife, Mary Philipse. Known as Mount Morris, this northern Manhattan estate stretched from the Harlem to the Hudson Rivers and covered more than 130 acres, later purchased & renovated by Stephen Jumel & his wife Eliza Jumel who remarried Aaron Burr; the mansion is built in the Palladian style, with a second story balcony and a two-story front portico supported by classical columns. The two-story octagon at the rear of the house is believed to be the first of its kind anywhere in the colonies.
Library has 2 copies; c. 1 (L2010G13); c. 2 (A 5815)
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