For the first time in five years, one of New York’s neglected uptown landmarks will today be open to the public.
A formal dedication ceremony will inaugurate the new location — in St. Nicholas Park on W. 141st Street — of the Hamilton Grange, the only house known to have been owned by Alexander Hamilton.
We at The Post have a special fondness for Hamilton; he founded this paper in 1801.
And he also remains one of the most important of the nation’s Founding Fathers.
Long acknowledged as the father of the US economic system, Hamilton is also widely credited as the man who “more than any other designed the government.”
His long-range vision of America as a nation of cities led to the first real urban planning in this country.
He lost his life in an 1804 “affair of honor” with Vice President Aaron Burr.
The Grange was closed in 2006 and literally moved around the corner to its new home during a $15 million restoration.
It remains the city’s most important memorial to one of its most important early figures. The Grange includes a period reconstruction of Hamilton’s home as well as exhibits on his life and work.
It’s well worth a visit.