This event is in the past.It took place on November 12, 2025 at Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden.
Walking Tour
Walking TourA Current of Change: The Erie Canal and the Mount Vernon Hotel
Sutton
Toast the Erie Canal's 200th birthday at the day hotel it helped create. This tour reveals how canal-transported goods—Albany cookstoves, French organs, Midwest wheat beer—brought new luxuries to middle-class New Yorkers escaping the city in the 1820s.
Historic house tour
19th century New York
Living history
Architecture & design
Tips
🏛️"such an out-of-place beauty amidst the high rise concrete rectangles"
📅check tour times in advance to avoid waiting
🌳originally built in the 1790s when this was countryside
A Current of Change: The Erie Canal and the Mount Vernon Hotel
Walking TourWalking TourToast the Erie Canal's 200th birthday at the day hotel it helped create. This tour reveals how canal-transported goods—Albany cookstoves, French organs, Midwest wheat beer—brought new luxuries to middle-class New Yorkers escaping the city in the 1820s.
Historic house tour
19th century New York
Living history
Architecture & design
Tips
🏛️"such an out-of-place beauty amidst the high rise concrete rectangles"
📅check tour times in advance to avoid waiting
🌳originally built in the 1790s when this was countryside
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