Alexander Hamilton’s House Moved

Posted on June 13, 2008
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Alexander Hamilton Home

I was really fortunate to find Heidi Glatfelter’s blog Market Early America’s Weblog. Heidi and I share a strong passion for both history & marketing. In fact, a few months ago, I started a blog to talk about marketing history sites, but I quickly realized that I just didn’t have the time to keep up with it what with working on Pastigo.com, the new Passport to History social network and the slow revival of the Passport to History wiki (and about three blogs that go with these projects).

With that long introduction, I thought I would share a story I saw on Heidi’s blog. It seems the National Park Service (NPS) has moved Alexander Hamilton’s Harlem home two blocks to enable them to fully restore the exterior of the house to it’s original condition. I’m not a huge fan of moving houses from their original location, if it can be helped. But sometimes it’s necessary in order to save a house or make it a better tool for educating people about history. Bravo to the NPS for making an effort to give people a better look into the life (and home) of this (sometimes controversial) American patriot, artilleryman, Founding Father and US Secretary of the Treasury, whose life was cut short by a duel with Aaron Burr.

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