Historic Shrines of America

Paul Revere's house, Faneuil Hall, the Craigie House where Longfellow wrote, a hundred more — an American pilgrimage told building by building, when many of these places were still fighting to survive.

The Schuyler Mansion, Albany, New York

3 shrines in this part of Historic Shrines of America.

The Schuyler Mansion, Albany, New York

THE RALLYING PLACE OF THE CONSTITUTIONALISTS When Catherine Van Rensselaer married Philip Schuyler, on September 17, 1755, he was a soldier…

The Schuyler Mansion, Albany, New York: Betsey

Among the visitors to Albany in 1776 were three Commissioners appointed by Congress to visit the Army of the North, one of whom, Benjamin…

The Schuyler Mansion, Albany, New York: British

Two years after the wedding came one of the incidents that has made the mansion famous. Because of the General's influence with the Indian…

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