Hamilton Grange, the 1802 House Rolled Down 141st Street

Hamilton finished the Grange in 1802, the only home he ever owned, and the park service has since parked it on a lawn inside St. Nicholas Park. Movers lifted the whole house 38 feet into the air so it could roll out over the stone porch of St. Luke's Church next door, then lowered it onto computer driven dollies and walked it down 141st Street on June 7, 2008; the entire relocation project ran 38 days (shown in the 2008 relocation · NPS photo above).

You start on the free lower floor, where plaques, drawings and exhibits and a park film lay out his life. The visitor center opens Wednesday to Sunday, 10 to 4, and needs no tour. The furnished rooms upstairs open only on a ranger tour, 25 minutes, free, first come first served with a max of 15 per tour (current NPS guidance caps groups at 14), so arrive early with your whole party. Tours leave at eleven thirty, one thirty and three thirty, with extra ten thirty and two thirty on weekends. It is shut Monday and Tuesday. Visitors rate it 4.5 from over 1,000 reviews.