Hamilton Fish House

Hamilton Fish House
Location 21 Stuyvesant Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York
Coordinates 40°43′49″N 73°59′20″W / 40.73028°N 73.98889°W / 40.73028; -73.98889Coordinates: 40°43′49″N 73°59′20″W / 40.73028°N 73.98889°W / 40.73028; -73.98889
Built 1804
Architectural style Federal
NRHP Reference # 72001456[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP July 31, 1972[1]
Designated NHL May 15, 1975[2]
Designated NYCL October 14, 1965

Hamilton Fish House, also known as the Stuyvesant Fish House and Nicholas and Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish House, is where Hamilton Fish, future Governor and Senator of New York, was born and resided from 1808 to 1838.[3] It is located at 21 Stuyvesant Street, a diagonal street within the Manhattan street grid, between East 9th Street and East 10th Street in the East Village neighborhood of New York City. It is owned by Cooper Union and used as a residence for the college's president.[4]

The brick Federal style house, which was unusually wide for its time[5] was built by Peter Stuyvesant, the great-grandson of Petrus Stuyvesant, around 1804 as a wedding present to his daughter, Elizabeth, and his son-in-law, Nicholas Fish, parents of Hamilton.[6] It was one of five houses owned by the family on their private lane. The land had been the property of the family since the 17th century.[6]

The house was designated a New York City landmark in 1965,[6] and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975.[2][3][7] It also lies within the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission's St. Mark's Historic District which surrounds the nearby St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery.

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  1. 1 2 Staff (2007-01-23). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 "Hamilton Fish House". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. 2007-09-15.
  3. 1 2 Alexander, Cathy A. (September 1, 1974). "Hamilton Fish House" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination. National Park Service. Retrieved 1983. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  4. ↑ Hall, Trish (April 15, 2001). "Habitats/Stuyvesant Street, East Village; A House for a President -- And Also for a Dean". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-11-19.
  5. ↑ White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot (2000). AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.). New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-8129-3107-5., p.173
  6. 1 2 3 New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission; Postal, Matthew A. (ed. and text); Dolkart, Andrew S. (text). (2009) Guide to New York City Landmarks (4th ed.) New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1, p.67
  7. ↑ "Hamilton Fish House—Accompanying three photos, exterior, from 1963 and 1974." (PDF). National Register of Historic Places Inventory. National Park Service. 1983.

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