NEW UTRECHT AND HARLEM— FOUNDING FATHER ALEXANDER HAMILTON’S HOUSE, “The Grange,” may have been in Harlem, but it is of interest to the Friends of Historic New Utrecht in southern Brooklyn.
Historian and retired National Park Service Ranger George Tonkin will give a presentation on Hamilton’s home, which is now located in St. Nicholas Park near West 141st Street in Harlem. The program will give insight into Hamilton’s reasons for selecting its location, what happened to the home after his fatal duel with Aaron Burr and the story of its being moved to its current location.
Tonkin’s free presentation will be hosted at the New Utrecht Reformed Parish House, 18th Avenue and 84th Street, in Bensonhurst, Saturday, April 18 at 2 p.m. The program will last approximately 45 minutes with a Q&A thereafter.
A Revolutionary War clerk, Hamilton built the new nation’s financial structure and banking system, becoming the United States’ first Secretary of the Treasury. He was killed in 1804, in a duel against his political rival and personal adversary Aaron Burr, who at the time was vice president under Thomas Jefferson. The U.S. Army Garrison at Fort Hamilton is named after him.
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