The Apthorpe Mansion
This drawing depicts the Apthorp Mansion, an enormous estate built by British Loyalist Charles Ward Apthorp in 1764. Located, as described by an annotation on the back, on 91st St near 9th Ave--now 90th and 91st Street and Columbus Avenue--the mansion was among the largest in the peaceful, rural area of Manhattan known at the time as Bloomingdale. But the peaceful life of "Elmwood," as the house was called, did not last long, and the house quickly entered into a...... More