Built 1804 Designated NHL May 15, 1975 Opened 1804 Added to NRHP 31 July 1972 | NRHP Reference # 72001456 Designated NYCL October 14, 1965 Architectural style Federal architecture | |
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Location 21 Stuyvesant Street, Manhattan, New York City, New York Address 44 Stuyvesant St, New York, NY 10003, USA Similar Daniel LeRoy House, Alfred E Smith House, General Winfield Scott Hou, Hamilton‑Holly House, Ottendorfer Public Library a | ||
Hamilton Fish House, also known as the Stuyvesant Fish House and Nicholas and Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish House, is where Hamilton Fish, future Governor and Senator of New York, was born and resided from 1808 to 1838. It is located at 21 Stuyvesant Street, a diagonal street within the Manhattan street grid, between East 9th Street and East 10th Street in the East Village neighborhood of New York City. It is owned by Cooper Union and used as a residence for the college's president.
The brick Federal style house, which was unusually wide for its time was built by Peter Stuyvesant, the great-grandson of Petrus Stuyvesant, around 1804 as a wedding present to his daughter, Elizabeth, and his son-in-law, Nicholas Fish, parents of Hamilton. It was one of five houses owned by the family on their private lane. The land had been the property of the family since the 17th century.
The house was designated a New York City landmark in 1965, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975. It also lies within the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission's St. Mark's Historic District which surrounds the nearby St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery.