Morris-Jumel Mansion Museum Photos

Built in Palladian-style in 1765 by Colonel Roger Morris as a country estate on Manhattan Island (roughly 160 to 162nd Streets, formerly from Harlem to Hudson Rivers), the house sits on a hill which made it a strategic military headquarters during the Revolutionary War. Consequently, George Washington lived here (Fall 1776) until forced to withdraw, at which time the British took it over. The house later became a tavern. After Washington became President, he gave a commemorative dinner here attended by among others, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, John Quincy Adams making the house unique in the number of American Presidents who dined together. The house was then bought & decorated by Stephen & Eliza Jumel in the French Empire style. The widow Jumel then married former Vice-President Aaron Burr. The house is now a museum as Eliza left it though the land was subdivided.

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Morris-Jumel Mansion Museum (1765) (65 Jumel Terrace). Style: Palladian. On National Register.	Palladian entrance of Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Octagonal wing of Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Central entrance hall of Morris-Jumel Mansion.

Entrance hall table in Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Dining room (1790-1810) with painted floor cloth Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Dining room table with Chinese Cantonware plates & wine rinsers to clean wine glasses between courses at Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Portrait of Elizabeth Huntington Chester over dining room fireplace in Morris-Jumel Mansion.

Butler's desk (1790-1810) in dining room of Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Cantonware tureens & crystal salt cellers (early 19th C) in dining room of Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Portrait of Col. John Huntington Chester over dining room sideboard with silverware chests in Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Front parlor (c1830s) with Second Empire- style furniture in Morris-Jumel Mansion.

Overview of fireplace & morning glory wallpaper in front parlor of Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Fall front desk (1820) owned by Aaron Burr in front parlor of Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Tripod stand with decanters in front parlor of Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Octagonal drawing room (1765-76) with gate-leg card table (c1765) in Morris-Jumel Mansion.

Chinese export porcelain bowl (c1770) on Chippendale-style slab table (c1760) in Octagonal drawing room of Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Reproduction of hand-painted Chinese wallpaper as would have been used in Octagonal drawing room of Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Washington's Bed Chamber & Study ( Sept. 14-Oct. 21, 1776) during American Victory of Battle of Harlem Heights in Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Drop leaf table & Chippendale-style chairs (c1760) from New York in Washington's Bed Chamber at Morris-Jumel Mansion.

Kneehole desk (c1775) attrib. to Thomas Burling of New York in Washington's Bed Chamber at Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Tester bed reproduced as to what George Washington might have used in his Bed Chamber at Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Eliza Jumel's Bed Chamber (1826-30) in Empire style at Morris-Jumel Mansion.	French lit à bateau (c1800) in Eliza Jumel's Bed Chamber at Morris-Jumel Mansion.

Eliza Jumel's Bed Chamber at Morris-Jumel Mansion shows furniture & carpet in French Empire style.	Fireplace in Eliza Jumel's Bed Chamber at Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Dressing table in Eliza Jumel's Dressing Room (19th C) at Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Aaron Burr's Bed Chamber (1833) reflects textile production boom in America at Morris-Jumel Mansion.

American tester bed (c1830-40) in Aaron Burr's Bed Chamber at Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Chest of drawers (c1830) by Michael Allison of New York in Aaron Burr's Bed Chamber at Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Fireplace in Aaron Burr's Bed Chamber at Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Mantle furniture in Mary Bowen's Bed Chamber at Morris-Jumel Mansion.

Bed in Mary Bowen's (adopted daughter of Jumel's) Bed Chamber at Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Metamorphic desk (aka Aaron Burr desk) (1854) patented by Stephen Hedges at Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Fireplace in basement kitchen at Morris-Jumel Mansion.	Sylvan Terrace row houses (1882) leading to Morris-Jumel Mansion.