page_title: Morris–Jumel Mansion
section_title: Site
hierarchical_section_title: Morris–Jumel Mansion / Site
caption_attribution_description: English: Roger Morris Park is a park of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded by West 160th Street on the south, Jumel Terrace on the west, West 162nd Street on the north and Edgecombe Avenue on the east. Within the park is the Morris–Jumel Mansion, also known as the Roger and Mary Philipse Morris House, "Mount Morris" and other similar names, the oldest house in the borough, built in 1765.
context_page_description: The Morris–Jumel Mansion or Morris House is a Federal style museum home in northern Manhattan with mid-eighteenth century roots. It was built in 1765 by Roger Morris, a British military officer, and served as a headquarters for both sides in the American Revolution.
  Located at 65 Jumel Terrace, in Roger Morris Park in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, it is the oldest house in the borough. The home and grounds were purchased as a museum home in 1903 and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961. The exterior was designated a New York City Landmark in 1967, with the interior following in 1975.
context_section_description: The mansion is located on the top of a ridge, Coogan's Bluff, from which lower Manhattan, the Hudson River including the Palisades, the Bronx, Westchester, the Long Island Sound and the Harlem River were once visible. It is located in Roger Morris Park, a New York City park within the boundaries of the Jumel Terrace Historic District, but is landmarked separately from the historic district.
  The mansion overlooked Coogan's Hollow and the Polo Grounds, a baseball and football stadium built in 1890 and razed in 1964. The mansion is sometimes visible in old pictures of the ballfield that show Coogan's Bluff. Today the Polo Grounds Towers stand where the stadium once was.
caption: The garden in Roger Morris Park, which serves as the grounds for the mansion
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