Comments on: The presidential mansions of New York City http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/when-the-ctiy-was-home-to-the-presidential-mansion/ Chronicling an ever-changing city through faded and forgotten artifacts Sun, 19 May 2013 18:50:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Thomas X. Casey http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/when-the-ctiy-was-home-to-the-presidential-mansion/#comment-33431 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:31:00 +0000 http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/?p=12716#comment-33431 Lets not forget the Bronx! One of the leading supporters of the American Revolution, John Adams was elected the second President of the United States. His daughter married Captain William Smith, and they owned a farm in Eastchester, at today’s Boston Road and Connor Street near Co-op City. In October, 1797, President Adams, on his way to Philadelphia for the opening of Congress, stayed at the Bronx farm waiting out a yellow fever epidemic. For several weeks, he governed the country from The Bronx.

]]> By: wildnewyork http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/when-the-ctiy-was-home-to-the-presidential-mansion/#comment-32721 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:37:33 +0000 http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/?p=12716#comment-32721 The mansion was at the corner of Cherry and Pearl, which was the center of the little city then.

]]> By: dan http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/when-the-ctiy-was-home-to-the-presidential-mansion/#comment-32720 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:20:48 +0000 http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/?p=12716#comment-32720 Wouldn’t the foot of Cherry Street been all docks and waterfront by this point? Or was this before it became all run-down?

]]> By: Benjamin Waldman http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/when-the-ctiy-was-home-to-the-presidential-mansion/#comment-32703 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 14:09:44 +0000 http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/?p=12716#comment-32703 You provide really interesting deatils. There is also a plaque on Broadway where the Macomb mansion was located. It’s impressive how much presidential history is in NYC.

http://untappedcities.com/newyork/2012/08/09/new-york-citys-presidential-haunts-from-washington-to-lincoln/

]]> By: Joe R http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2012/10/15/when-the-ctiy-was-home-to-the-presidential-mansion/#comment-32695 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:37:35 +0000 http://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/?p=12716#comment-32695 Under the Brooklyn Bridg, at Pearl Street and Dover Street, there is a small bronze plaque (very hard to find due to endless construction) stating that Washington had lived at that spot when President. Looking at a map, it seems possible that Cherry Street extended this far some time before the Alfred E Smith Houses were built.

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