Fraunces Tavern
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The original Fraunces Tavern was built as a house in 1719 for Etienne DeLancey, a member of the prominent Delancey family that contended with the Livingstons for leadership in colonial New York. Etienne's heirs sold the house to Samuel Fraunces in 1762, who turned it into one of the most popular taverns of the day. Though it is best known as the site where Washington bade farewell to the officers of the Continental Army in 1783, the tavern also played a significant role in pre-Revolutionary activities. Much of the Revolutionary history of New York revolved around Fraunces Tavern. It was one of the meeting places of the Sons of Liberty in the pre-war years. During the tea crisis of 1765, a British captain who tried to bring tea into New York was forced to give an apology to the public at Fraunces Tavern. The patriots, dressed as Indians (as had the participants in the Boston Tea Party) then dumped his tea into the harbor. In August of 1775, Americans took possession of cannons from the Battery at the tip of Manhattan and exchanged fire with the HMS Asia (1764). They retaliated by firing a 32-gun broadside on the city, sending a cannon ball through the roof of Fraunces Tavern. When the war was all but won, Fraunces Tavern was used as the site of Board of Inquiry meetings, a procedure agreed upon between the withdrawing British commander, Sir Guy Carleton, and the American commander, George Washington, to appease the insistence of the American leadership that no American property--former slaves emancipated by the British in return for military service--be allowed to leave with British forces. Every Wednesday, from April to November, 1783, the English-American Board of Inquiry met to vet the veracity of the paper credentials and oral history given by freed Blacks. However, British representatives were successful in ensuring all but a handful of the thousands of Loyalist Blacks then in New York, maintained their liberty under the protection of the British Crown, avoiding a return to slavery as desired by the Continental Congress. When the victorious Americans re-occupied the city, it was at Fraunces Tavern that hosted Washington and his officers in a victory banquet. On Dec. 4, 1783, Washington was again at Fraunces Tavern to say farewell to his officers in the Long Room. After the war, the tavern housed some offices of the Continental Congress as the country struggled under the Articles of Confederation. With the establishment of the Constitution and the inauguration of Washington as president in 1789, the building housed the departments of Foreign Affairs, Treasury and War. The offices were moved when the capital was moved from New York to Philadelphia. The tavern operated throughout much of the 19th century, but suffered several serious fires beginning in 1832. Having been rebuilt several times, the structure's appearance has changed to the extent that it is not reliably known what the original 18th century restaurant looked like. In 1890 the first floor exterior was remodeled and the original timbers sold as souvenirs. The much-changed original building was threatened in 1900 with demolition by its owners, who wanted to tear it down for a parking lot. A number of patriotic groups, notably the Daughters of the American Revolution, worked to preserve it. The City of New York used its power of eminent domain and designated the building as a park, a designation which was rescinded when the title was acquired by The Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York in 1904. Today Fraunces Tavern is a tourist site, housing a restaurant and museum, and is part of the American Whiskey Trail. Fraunces Tavern was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1965. Fraunces Tavern National Register #08000140 (2008) Fraunces Tavern Block Historic District National Register #77000957 (1977)
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Made by Andrea [bah! la realtà !]
oh-so-busy these days, I am back in Milan to see my thesis advisor and go over an almost-complete draft with him. flickr will have to be on the backburner for a bit more. I like this picture despite its technical flaws, because it shows a different face of downtown--the old houses, the trucks--not what I expected, a few blocks from Wall Street.
Inside Fraunces Tavern.
Made by myske
1) George Washington drank here several times and issued his farewell address to his officers on the premises after the Revolutionary War. 2) It was the original home of the departments of State, Treasury, and War. 3) They have Guinness on tap, and they serve it right.
Fraunces Tavern
Made by dkatzism
Fraunces Tavern, where George Washington said farewell to his troops at the end of the war.
Claremont #2
Made by TomTomB
Y'a pas comme une faute de frappe ?
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