I am sort of sneaky with my husband. I often have plans in my mind, but I don't ask him if he wants to go. I say mysterious things like, "There is this place that I want check out, it is just around the corner". Then when we are standing in front of it, I jump up and down and clap my hands saying "Can we do it???". And then he can't argue with me. This is the Mount Vernon Hotel or the Abigail Adams Smith Museum. The hotel part means that it was an old fashioned "day hotel", sort of like a country club. The Abigail Adams Smith part means nothing...her husband owned this land and intended on building a country home but did little more than getting the foundation done before he sold it.
This is located on the Upper East Side and our original destination was Roosevelt Island. But... this really was right around the corner. When we rang the bell a little old guy named Bob opened it and looked at us quizzically. We asked if there was a tour and he hesitated and then said..."yes, just a minute". Then he took the two of us on an hour long tour of the eight-room carriage house! It was absolutely lovely, one of my most favorite things. If you look very closely at the stonework you can see the date 1799 imbedded on either side of the circle.
I am sort of sneaky with my husband. I often have plans in my mind, but I don't ask him if he wants to go. I say mysterious things like, "There is this place that I want check out, it is just around the corner". Then when we are standing in front of it, I jump up and down and clap my hands saying "Can we do it???". And then he can't argue with me. This is the Mount Vernon Hotel or the Abigail Adams Smith Museum. The hotel part means that it was an old fashioned "day hotel", sort of like a country club. The Abigail Adams Smith part means nothing...her husband owned this land and intended on building a country home but did little more than getting the foundation done before he sold it.
This is located on the Upper East Side and our original destination was Roosevelt Island. But... this really was right around the corner. When we rang the bell a little old guy named Bob opened it and looked at us quizzically. We asked if there was a tour and he hesitated and then said..."yes, just a minute". Then he took the two of us on an hour long tour of the eight-room carriage house! It was absolutely lovely, one of my most favorite things. If you look very closely at the stonework you can see the date 1799 imbedded on either side of the circle.
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