Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-05-04
,szzsza19f7r- A HOUSE WITH A HISTORY.
The Mansion ImmortaIized by Washing
 ton and Halleck to Re Torn Do,vn

1he Mansion 1mmortaliZed by Washing
 ton and Halleck to Be Torn Down.
 I clambered down from the summit of Washington Heights, and while study ing the colonnade of an aged dwelling was shocked by beholding a garish poster that announced the sale by ex- ecutrix of the adjacent Lynch estate. Had a circus bill been Haunted from the walls of a church there would have seemed no whit more sacrilege. It was here in this old landmark-namely, the manor house of the famed Mme Jumel, that Fitz Greene Halleck beheld "At midnight, in his guarded tent, the Turk was dreaming of the hour when Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, should tremble at his power" Here it was that he composed the immortal poem Marco Bozzaris," and where the poet realized that "An hour passed on-the Turk awoke; that bright dream was his last; he awoke-to hear his sentries shrielk, To arms! they come! the Greek! the Greekr"
 Not only is this storied old wooden structure thus immortalized; it's history is likewise wrapped within the pages of the history of our land. Pity tis that liar lem river improvements, which make the ground whereabouts so inestimably valua- ble, should be sacrificed to utilitarian de mands; yet such it must be, owing to it's magnificence of situation at the termini of the Sixth avenue IL" road, the Sub urban Rapid Transit road and the New York and Northern road, together with its advantages by water. owing to facil- ities acquired by the erection of most spacious dockage. Within these walls Mime. Jumel lived-an heiress born at sea between France and the West Indies in 1769, and who died in New York July 10, 1865.
 At IT years of age Eliza-that was her Christian name-eloped with and mar ried Col. Peter Croix, British officer, and in moving to New York city be- came, through her extraordinary beauty and talents, the friend and favorite of many distinguished men of the age. At the death of Col. Croix she married Stephen Jumcl, French wine mer- | chant. and removing with him to Paris, l became a leader of fashion under the patronage of the Marquis de Lafayette. Although her husbands wealth was enormous, in few years she exhausted 1 by her extravaganza a large portion of his fortune.
 1 Returning to this country she devoted i herself to it's restoration, and with such success that she soon regained more than had been dissipated. Shortly after these l T-,r,al 1ioI o,oA fl,o1, it she linked her name with that of Aaron Burr, one of the most picturesque char acters in the annals of American states manship. She had been acquainted witt him in her youth. Now she sought hi: legal advice. At the time he was 7S years of age, but in 1850 they were mar ried.
 Through Texan speculations Burr los large sum of Mime. Jumel's money which she had placed in his hands a few days after the wedding, and, as a result she filed a complaint against him anC the separation ensued, although ther, was no divorce.
 Recently the Jumel estate has been di vided and sold as city lots, but the man sion upon it, which I have described erected by Col. Roder Morris in 175s still stands, and although the sale of tn Lynch estate, ct the Real Estate Ex change, may be the beginning of it eventual downfall, the memory of it historic walls will be perpetuated to al time. Washington has made it fragran with tales of the Revolution, for in it h made his headquarters; there Mme Jumel, who purchased it in 1910, enter tained Joseph Bonaparte, Moreau an many other men of distinction.-Ne1 York Herald.