, 1889-08-15
a HOUSE WITH 4 HISTORY.
EfIc Mansion Immortalized by Washing
ton and Halleck to BE Torn Down.

/ EuG Mansion Immortalized by Washing
ton and HaIleck to BE Torn Down.
| ] 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 circus bill been 1aunted from the
walls of a church there would have
seemed no whit more sacrilego. 1t was
! here in this old landmark-nameiy,t the
manor house of the famed Nine 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 can hour passed on-the Turk
/ awokc; that bright dream was his last;
! he awoke-to hear his sentries shrek,
| To arms! they come! the Greek! the
| Greekr"
Not only is this storied old wooden
I structure thus immortalizcd; its history is
| likewise wrapped within the pages of the
!
| lem river improvements, which make the
ground thereabouts SO inestimably valua-
/ BILE, should be sacrificed to utiitarian de-
mands; yet such it must be, owing to its
magnificence of situation at the termini
of the Sixth avenue "L' road, the Sub
urban Rapid Transit road and the New
| York and Northern road, together with
its advantages by water, owing to facii
tiles acquired by the erection of mos.
| spacious dockage. Within these walls
Mime. Jumel ived-an heiress born at
sea between France and the West Indies
! in 1769, and who died in New York July
| 16, 1865.
At II 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 Jumel, q French wine mer-
chant, and removing with him to Paris,
,ecame leader of fashion under the
patronage of the Marquis de Lafayette.
Although her husbands wealth was
enormous, in few years she exhausted
by her extravaganza n large portion of
his fortune.
Returning to this country she devoted
herself to its restoration, and with such
success that she soon regained moro than
had been dissipated. Shortly after these
experiences Jumel died and then it was
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 with
him in her youth. Now she sought his
legal advice. At the time he was 7S
years of age, but in 1890 they were mar
| ried.
Through Texan speculations Burr lost
3 largo sum OF Nine. Jumel's money,
which she had placed in his hands a few
days after the wedding, and, as q result.
she filed complaint against him and
the separation ensued, although there
was DO divorce.
Recently the Jumel estate has been di-
vided and sold as city lots. but the man.
sion upon it, which 1 have described,
erected by Col. Roder Morris in 1853,
still stands, and although the sale of the
Lynch estate, at the Real Estate Ex-
change, may be the beginning of its
eventual downfall, the memory of its
historic walls will be perpetuated to all
time. Washington has made it fragrant
with tales of the Revolution, for in it he
made his headquarters; there Nine.
Jumel, who purchasedit it in 1910, enter
tanned joseph Bonaparte, Moreau and
many other men of distinction.-New
York Herald.