'Glamour & Greed' Walking Tour, Haunted House Lecture and More Set for Merchant's House Museum, March 2013

The Merchant's House Museum is New York City's only family home preserved intact - inside and out - from the mid-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 museum has just announced its March 2013 events. Details below!

Walking Tour of 19th Century NoHo: Glamour & Greed, Money & Murder
Date: Sundays
Time: 1 p.m.
Location: Merchant's House Museum, 29 East Fourth Street (btwn Lafayette & Bowery)
Description: Join us every Sunday for a journey back in time to the elite 'Bond Street area,' home to Astors, Vanderbilts, Delanos - and the Tredwells, who lived in the Merchant's House. You'll walk in the footsteps of these wealthy mercantile families whose elegant Federal mansions once lined the tranquil cobblestone streets. Our tour passes by iconic landmarks such as the imposing Colonnade Row, The Public Theater (in 1854 the City's first public library), and The Cooper Union, site of impassioned political speeches from Lincoln to Obama. On the bustling Astor Place, we'll imagine the drama of events that led to the Opera House riot of 1849, among the bloodiest in American history. And we'll visit the site of the scandalous 1857 Bond Street murder of Harvey Burdell, one of the City's still unsolved crimes. $15, $20 includes Museum Admission. Reservations not necessary. Tour is approx. 50 minutes and begins promptly at 1pm. Promenaders will return to the Museum in time to take the 2pm Guided Tour if they wish.

Candlelight Ghost Tours of "Manhattan's Most Haunted House"
Date: Friday, March 15
Time: 6 p.m., 6:30 p.m., 7 p.m., & 7:30 p.m.
Location: Merchant's House Museum, 29 East Fourth Street (btwn Lafayette & Bowery)
Description: Doors slam, floorboards creak, voices call into the night. Venture into The Shadows of history to see the house where eight family members died (and The New York Times called "Manhattan's Most Haunted House") by flickering candlelight and hear true tales of inexplicable occurrences from the people who actually experienced them. Tours are 50 minutes. $20, $10 MHM Members. Reservations required; call 212-777-1089 or visit merchantshouse.org/calendar.

A Tribute to the Tredwells' Irish Servants
Date: St. Patrick's Day, Sunday, March 17
Time: Tours at 12 p.m., 2 p.m., and 4 p.m.
Location: Merchant's House Museum, 29 East Fourth Street (btwn Lafayette & Bowery)
Description: Join us for a back-stairs look at the Merchant's House, "arguable the oldest intact site of Irish habitation in New York City" (Time Out New York). Come climb the narrow staircase to the just-restored fourth-floor servants' quarters and see where the Tredwells' four Irish servants lived and did some of their work. You'll learn why it would have been impossible to run a home like the Merchant's House without them. Included with regular admission; reservations not required.

Lecture: Investigating "Manhattan's Most Haunted House"
Date: Tuesday, March 26
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Merchant's House Museum, 29 East Fourth Street (btwn Lafayette & Bowery)
Description: Join Dan Sturges, paranormal researcher extraordinaire, as he explains the methodology and best practices of "ghost hunting." After a brief primer on the history of parapsychology, Sturges will share some of the remarkable, but unexplainable, occurrences during his years of investigations at the Merchant's House Museum, "Manhattan's Most Haunted House" (The New York Times). You'll hear disembodied voices caught on tape, see startling photographic evidence, and hear about strange incidents experienced by Strurges and others. $20, $10 MHM Members. Reservations required; call 212-777-1089 or visit merchantshouse.org/calendar.

For more information, visit www.merchantshouse.org.