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A famous mansion
In 1799, a prosperous New York merchant named Archibald Gracie built a country house overlooking a bend in the East River, five kilometers north of the city. Financial failure forced Gracie to sell his house to Joseph Foulke in 1823, and in 1857, the house passed into the hands of Noah Wheaton. New York City appropriated the estate in 1896, incorporating its 11 acres of land into the newly formed Carl Schurz Park.