By CYNTHIA R. FAGEN
June 8, 2008
It may be a Burr in the side of historians, but the 206-year-old house of founding father Alexander Hamilton was hauled to a new uptown address yesterday.
The yellow, wood-framed home made the three-hour trip down Convent Avenue and West 141st Street to its new location just a block away in St. Nicholas Park aboard a massive dolly.
Hamilton, who also founded the New York Post, lived at the house, The Grange, for two years before he was shot to death in a duel with Aaron Burr in 1804.
The building's move had been challenged in a federal complaint by a community group Friday.
At its new park location, chosen to re-create the home's original rural setting, the house is to receive an $8.4 million renovation.
