Hamilton-Holly House
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The Hamilton-Holly House located at 4 St. Mark’s Place in the East Village
section of Manhattan
is a Federal style townhouse constructed in 1831. The house is 26-foot wide and 3-1/2-storys in height plus a basement level. The house is built of brick in a Flemish bond pattern with white marble at the basement level up till the beginning of the first floor, it has a high front stoop to the main entrance on the left which is characterized by a Gibbs surround entrance with triple keystone
and vermiculated blocks and long parlor-floor windows, molded pediment lintels and a peaked roof with two dormer
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The entire block of St. Mark’s Place (East 8th Street) between Third and Second Avenues was developed by Thomas E. Davis, a British born real estate developer who built Federal style townhouses on both sides of the street. There are two other surviving townhouses from this development at 25 St. Mark’s Place and the best preserved of the three at 20 St. Mark’s Place. 4 St. Mark’s Place was sold by Davis in 1833 to Col. Alexander Hamilton, the son of the late Alexander Hamilton
former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. Davis also purchased The Grange
; Alexander Hamilton's estate in northern Manhattan for $25,000 from his widow Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
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Elizabeth Shuyler Hamilton; her daughter, Eliza Hamilton Holly, and her husband Sidney; and Col. Hamilton and his wife Eliza lived at this address until 1842.
East Village, Manhattan
The East Village is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, lying east of Greenwich Village, south of Gramercy and Stuyvesant Town, and north of the Lower East Side...
section of Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
is a Federal style townhouse constructed in 1831. The house is 26-foot wide and 3-1/2-storys in height plus a basement level. The house is built of brick in a Flemish bond pattern with white marble at the basement level up till the beginning of the first floor, it has a high front stoop to the main entrance on the left which is characterized by a Gibbs surround entrance with triple keystone
Keystone (architecture)
A keystone is the wedge-shaped stone piece at the apex of a masonry vault or arch, which is the final piece placed during construction and locks all the stones into position, allowing the arch to bear weight. This makes a keystone very important structurally...
and vermiculated blocks and long parlor-floor windows, molded pediment lintels and a peaked roof with two dormer
Dormer
A dormer is a structural element of a building that protrudes from the plane of a sloping roof surface. Dormers are used, either in original construction or as later additions, to create usable space in the roof of a building by adding headroom and usually also by enabling addition of windows.Often...
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The entire block of St. Mark’s Place (East 8th Street) between Third and Second Avenues was developed by Thomas E. Davis, a British born real estate developer who built Federal style townhouses on both sides of the street. There are two other surviving townhouses from this development at 25 St. Mark’s Place and the best preserved of the three at 20 St. Mark’s Place. 4 St. Mark’s Place was sold by Davis in 1833 to Col. Alexander Hamilton, the son of the late Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton was a Founding Father, soldier, economist, political philosopher, one of America's first constitutional lawyers and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury...
former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. Davis also purchased The Grange
The Grange
-Organizations and movements:*The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, usually referred to as "The Grange", an agricultural organization in the United States of America....
; Alexander Hamilton's estate in northern Manhattan for $25,000 from his widow Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
Elizabeth Hamilton was the wife of Alexander Hamilton. She was born in Albany, New York, the second daughter of Philip Schuyler, an American Revolutionary War general, and Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler, one of the richest and most political families in the state of New York...
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Elizabeth Shuyler Hamilton; her daughter, Eliza Hamilton Holly, and her husband Sidney; and Col. Hamilton and his wife Eliza lived at this address until 1842.