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The Morris-Jumel Mansion : a documentary history / Constance M. Greiff.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating F128.8.M8 G77 1995
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greiff, Constance M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Morris-Jumel Mansion (New York, N.Y.)--History.
- Morris-Jumel Mansion (New York, N.Y.).
- Morris, Roger, 1727-1794--Homes and haunts.
- Morris, Roger.
- Jumel, Stephen, 1755-1832--Homes and haunts.
- Jumel, Stephen.
- Jumel, Eliza Bowen, 1775?-1865.
- Jumel, Eliza Bowen.
- New York (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- New York (N.Y.).
- New York (N.Y.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783.
- Buildings--New York (State)--New York.
- Buildings.
- Dwellings--New York (State)--New York.
- Dwellings.
- Mansions--New York (State)--New York.
- Mansions.
- Historic houses--New York (State)--New York.
- Historic houses.
- Morris family.
- Genre:
- Historic structure reports.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 372 p., [51] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Rocky Hill, New Jersey : Heritage Studies, Inc., 1995.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (331-362) and index.
- "The house was built eleven years before the Revolution, in 1765, by British Colonel Roger Morris and his American wife, Mary Philipse. Known as Mount Morris, this northern Manhattan estate stretched from the Harlem to the Hudson Rivers and covered more than 130 acres."
- "The Mansion is built in the Palladian style, with a second story balcony and a two-story front portico supported by classical columns. The two-story octagon at the rear of the house is believed to be the first of its kind anywhere in the colonies."
- Cover title.
- "July 1995."
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of: Constance M. Greiff.
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