#Fraunces tavern

[my-deer-friend]

Fraunces Tavern is one of the very few remaining colonial-era buildings in New York, and was the site of several historic moments, including Washington's farewell to his officers in 1783 and the Society of the Cincinnati dinner that Hamilton and Burr attended a week before the duel.

The long room where Washington had his farewell:

The museum also has letters by Washington and Nathan Hale.

And Ben Tallmadge's memoirs.

Along with, for some reason, a bit of Washington's hair.

[little-desi-historian]

Memoir of Benjamin Tallmadge.

Fraunces Tavern, NYC.

[melpomeneprose]

Come get (y)our boy, @honorhearted / @tallmadgeandtea (affectionate).

(Amrev museum in Philadelphia).

(Fraunces Tavern, NYC).

[newyorkthegoldenage]

May 5, 1932: The Fraunces Tavern, Broad Street, where George Washington took leave of his officers on December 4, 1783.

Photo: Clayton L. Wallace via MCNY

[rabbitcruiser]

The second Great Fire of New York destroyed 50 acres (200,000 square meters) of New York City’s Financial District on December 17, 1835. 

[resurrectionist3]

Me on my Rivington’s shit😌

Fr tho finally got to visit Fraunces Tavern in NYC and OH MY GOD it was beautiful. By the time we got there, the museum section was only open for literally 6 minutes. But they were super nice and let us look around anyways even though I didn’t get to do a super in depth look at everything. I got a pic of Benny Boy’s diary and I found it hilarious that the museum had a funko pop figure display of Georgie crossing the Delaware. We also saw Trinity Church on the way to the Tavern so of course I had to visit Alex😌

Also unrelated to the tavern but we saw Sweeney Todd on Broadway and I got to talk to Gaten Matarazzo at the stage door. Such an excellent show it was a childhood dream come true to be able to see Sweeney Todd on stage.

[fructidor]

fraunces tavern + trinity church

[janesadek]

What's That About Dead Rabbits?

Travel There – Happy Hour and Dinner in Lower Manhattan What a day Deb and I had! It was just the kind of day we love, running from early until late and seeing things we’ve never seen before. We rode the New York subway from Mid-Town to Downtown. We visited the sculptures around Battery Park. We island hopped on ferries. We climbed to the crown of the Statue of Liberty and connected with our…

[culperscomet]

“…Benjamin Tallmadge, a friend of Hale’s at Yale College and the colonel who sent the spy on his deadly mission.” - real words I saw in a museum

First off he did no such thing this is slander. leave that man alone 😭

Tallmadge wasn’t even in the intelligence service for at least another year after Hale’s execution, so that statement doesn’t even make any sense. Technically it was also Thomas Knowlton who sent Hale on his mission so I don’t even know why they would say Tallmadge did that. I think I’m more mad that this was in an actual museum because like… how do you mess that up I thought this was common knowledge?

[nordleuchten]

Museum asks 5 and 9?

Dear @clove-pinks, thank you for the ask. :-)

5. If you could create a museum about one thing, what would it be?

That is quite a hard question, sincere there are so many interesting topics out there. Despite the great selection, I would like to create a museum about laboratory notes of great scientist. I want the notes of Marie Curie, Edward Jenner, John Snow, Ignaz Semmelweis, Louis Pasteur, Georg Mendel, Robert Koch, Charles Darwin, Alexander Flemming, Antoine Lavoisier, and so, so many more. I want everybody to see their writings, their thoughts, their triumphs, and their failures.

9. What historical artifact (that you haven’t seen) would you like to see in person?

The Fraunces Tavern museum has the sash on display that La Fayette used during the Battle of Brandywine to bandage his wound. He was shot in the fleshy part of his left calf while trying to get the Continental Troops into an orderly retreat. Legend had it, that La Fayette did not notice his wounds up until the point where blood was drip out of his boot. A Continental General, General Heman Swift, saw what La Fayette was doing and not only helped him off the battlefield but also gave him his own sash to wear. I would love to see La Fayette’s original sash.

[dlyarchitecture]

[little-desi-historian]

Sash of the Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette. (September 1757 — May 1834)

Via: Fraunces Tavern, NYC.

Source.

[my-deer-friend]

NYC is such a chaotic but fun place to visit. I hope you have an amazing time and that you get to see everything that you want to see!!!

There's so many half-hidden places to explore, too. In addition to the more famous places, like Federal Hall, the Fraunces Tavern and Van Cortlandt House Museum are some historic sites that you might find interesting. (Though the latter may be a bit out of your way.)

Thank you, friend!! It's the most extroverted city I've been to so I'm doing my best to take that in stride. (Why do Americans just talk to strangers?? Wild.)

That house looks fantastic, though yeah, possibly a little far for the time that I have. But it's on my list for next time!

[bomberqueen17]

new york

well so i'm in new york city and it poured for the whole time but the sun has risen this morning so that's nice.

i've had a covid exposure so i gotta isolate when i go home but i'm not terribly worried about it, we'll see if that bites me in the ass. i gotta take the train so i gotta mask but like. it's okay. i can isolate pretty easily so it'll be annoying at mealtimes for a couple of days but it's not like. the end of the world.

yesterday we went on the ferry to ellis island etc, which i had done before for school trips but didn't remember and they've absolutely redone the whole place since then anyway. But when we got back it was absolutely bucketing rain, and i've discovered that the shoes i brought are like anti-waterproof somehow. they're Børn boots and they absolutely fucking suck, the insoles have disintegrated and the sole supports are starting to go after wearing them a handful of times, and they just sponge up water from the ground through the soles as best i can tell, absolutely the worst shoes i could have brought. I've spent a bunch of time on this trip wearing flip-flops in fifty-degree weather because those were the only other shoes I brought and it's better to just get your bare feet wet.

Anyway we went for lunch at the Fraunces Tavern which is a general-washington-ate-here kind of deal, and then when the rain had not let up we sprinted around the corner to the Dead Rabbit which is a bar on that same block, and I wikipedia-spiraled about the dead rabbit riots and the bowery bhoys.

Our first night in town we discovered that there's an Uzbek restaurant in the financial district and it's set to open more locations around town so like. Double thumbs up. We had a shashlik sampler platter and an order of the manty dumplings and it was so good but it meant we were too full to try the lagman or beshbarmek and so i want to go back but idk when i'll be in the area again. but if you are, you need to try that out.

Anyway it's been a fun visit but I gotta get the train back now and isolate for a while.

[rabbitcruiser]

The second Great Fire of New York destroyed 50 acres (200,000 square meters) of New York City’s Financial District on December 17, 1835.

[bignaz8]

Washington at Fraunces Tavern, Manhattan