The Hamilton Fish House, also known as the Stuyvesant Fish House and Nicholas and Elizabeth Stuyvesant Fish House, is where

Hamilton Fish Hamilton Fish (August 3, 1808September 7, 1893) was an American politician who served as the 16th Governor of New York from 1849 to 1850, a United States Senator from New York from 1851 to 1857 and the 26th United States Secretary of State ...

(1808–93), later Governor and Senator of New York, was born and resided from 1808 to 1838. It is at 21

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, a diagonal street within the

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, between 9th and

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Streets in the East Village neighborhood of

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. It is owned by Cooper Union and used as a residence for the college's president.

History

The brick Federal style house, which was unusually wide for its time, p.173 was built by Peter Stuyvesant, the great-grandson of

Petrus Stuyvesant Peter Stuyvesant (; in Dutch also ''Pieter'' and ''Petrus'' Stuyvesant, ; 1610 – August 1672)Mooney, James E. "Stuyvesant, Peter" in p.1256 was a Dutch colonial officer who served as the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Net ...

, around 1804 as a wedding present to his daughter, Elizabeth, and his son-in-law,

Nicholas Fish Nicholas Fish (August 28, 1758 – June 20, 1833) was an American Revolutionary War soldier. He was the first Adjutant General of New York. Early life Fish was born on August 28, 1758 into a wealthy New York City family. He was the son of Jon ...

, parents of Hamilton., p.67 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 remained in the hands of

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descendants until roughly the turn of the 20th century. It served for a time as a rooming house thereafter before undergoing restoration in the 1960s. The house was designated a New York City landmark in 1965, and was declared a

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in 1975. It also lies within the

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's St. Mark's Historic District which surrounds the nearby St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery. The house is of national significance as the only surviving home of Fish, who served as Secretary of State during the administration of President

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. Fish successfully negotiated the 1871 Treaty of Washington with

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, ushering in a period of peace and cooperation between the two countries.

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American Memory from the Library of CongressNational Register of Historical Places ApplicationLandmarks Preservation Commission Notes from 1965
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fish, Hamilton, House National Historic Landmarks in Manhattan Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Manhattan Houses completed in 1804 New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan Federal architecture in New York City East Village, Manhattan Cooper Union

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