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Spot the Shot – Revealed!

Photo courtesy of Diana Hubert, Epoch Times

This week’s Spot the Shot is indeed – congratulations Stephanie! – the Merchant’s House Museum at 29 East 4th Street. The style of architecture is late Federal. Built in 1832, the museum is Manhattan’s only 19th Century family home preserved completely intact on both the interior and the exterior, and thus, according to museum’s website, “offers a rare and intimate glimpse of domestic life in New York City from 1835-1865.”

From the time of its construction in 1832, the house was home to the same prosperous merchant family for almost 100 years!

The  Merchant’s House Museum has been a designated New York City landmark since 1965, and was actually one of the City’s first landmarks. For information on its fascinating history, read the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s designation report (to do this, go to GVSHP’s Resources page, click on Designation Reports, then Individual Listings—NoHo , and go to Old Merchant’s House). Or better yet, visit the museum to see for yourself! It is open to the public each Thursday through Monday from 12:00-5:00 pm.

The intact interior of the 1832 home

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