Built 1796 Opened 1796 Added to NRHP 25 February 1972 | NRHP Reference # 72000862 Area 3,642 m² | |
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Address 500 Main St, New York, NY 10044, USA Similar Roosevelt Island, Blackwell Island Light, Chapel of the Good Shepherd, Southpoint Park, The Octagon | ||
Blackwell House is an historic house on Roosevelt Island (formerly known as Manning's Island, later Blackwell's Island, then Welfare Island) in New York City.
After the English defeated the Dutch in 1666, Captain John Manning seized the island, which became known as Manning's Island, and twenty years later, Manning's son-in-law, Robert Blackwell, became the island's new owner and namesake.
In 1796, Blackwell's great-grandson Jacob Blackwell constructed the Blackwell House, which is the island's oldest landmark, New York City's sixth oldest house, and one of the city's few remaining examples of 18th-century architecture.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
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