The master bedroom where both George Washington and General Burgoyne laid down their heads, Burgoyne was kept prisoner here in style, after the defeat at Saratoga. It must have been a bit awkward, as he had ordered the burning of Schuyler’s house up the road near the present day surrender site.
Hand painted wall paper with Roman ruin motifs was crafted in Europe, to be rolled up and shipped across the Atlantic, from here the Schulyer’s brought it up the Hudson to Albany.
Constructed on the island of Bermuda by West African slaves trained in Indigo production, this piece made its way up the Hudson and into the home of the Rensselaer’s by the 1730s.
A modern Mohican-Stockbridge representation of the Hudson in Blue beads and set on a hide background. The other artifacts are Munsee laddles and rattles.
Much smaller than you would think though, the interpreter said they would you the public hallway space as a spillover.
The Parlor where Alexander Hamilton married Elizabeth Schuyler on December 14, 1780 (A Winter’s Ball)
The library of Philip Schuyler and the site of research by both Hamilton and John Jay, Hamilton wrote at least one of the Federalist papers at this desk.
