Earliest Tredwell Dress on Display At Merchant's House
Earliest Tredwell Dress on Display, Circa 1820, Open through August 2011
Time: 12 to 5 p.m.
Location: Merchant's House Museum, 29 East Fourth Street (btwn Lafayette & Bowery)
Description: The white cotton dress now on display in the front parlor at the Merchant's House is the earliest example from the Museum's collection of 39 dresses owned and worn by the Tredwell women throughout the 19th century. Included with regular admission: $10, $5 Student & Seniors, MHM Members free. Reservations not required.
About the Merchant's House Museum
The 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
On the web: www.merchantshouse.org
