Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden

The Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden presents the period of the Mount Vernon Hotel that operated from 1826 until 1833. Constructed in 1799 as a carriage house for a 23-acre estate, and converted into the Mount Vernon Hotel in 1826, this Upper East Side stone building sits on land originally owned by Colonel William Stephens Smith and his wife Abigail Adams Smith, daughter of John Adams. Its location—in what's now the Upper East Side—provided an ideal getaway from the city, which at the time extended only as far north as 14th Street.