Merchant's House Museum Presents Lessons Learned... the Tredwells 4/25
Lessons Learned: The Books that Taught the Tredwells open through Monday, April 25, 2011
Time: 12 to 5 p.m.
Location: Merchant's House Museum, 29 East Fourth Street (btwn Lafayette & Bowery)
Description: See 19th-century school books owned by the Tredwell daughters. A fashionable education for New York City's well-to-do young ladies covered a variety of subjects, including geography, mathematics, composition, and French; their studies also went far beyond traditional academics with lessons in music, dancing, and other social graces. Included with regular admission: $10, $5 Student & Seniors, MHM Members free. Reservations not required.
About the Merchant's House MuseumThe Merchant's House Museum is New York City's only family home preserved intact - inside and out - from the 19th century. Home to a prosperous merchant-class family for almost 100 years, it is complete with the family's original furnishings and personal possessions, offering a rare and intimate glimpse of domestic life from 1835-1865.
"The distinction of the Merchant's House and it is a powerful one is that it is the real thing. One simply walks through the beautiful doorway into another time and place in New York."
The New York Times
"To step inside this red-brick beauty is to experience pre-Civil War New York in all its stately glory." AVENUE Magazine
On the web: www.merchantshouse.org
