Morris-Jumel Mansion

Built in 1765, the Morris-Jumel Mansion in Washington Heights is one of the city's only remaining Palladian structures. More famously, George Washington briefly used it as his headquarters in the autumn of 1776. (The British and the Hessians took it over after they drove out Washington's army and occupied New York for the remainder of the war.) With its creaky floors, period furniture and housewares, and stately air, the house still stands as a place of lovely calm in the bustling city that surrounds it.