Colonnade Row

[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] When visiting the Merchants House Museum in Manhattan, be sure and walk by Colonnade Row, the series of columned rowhouses located on the 400 block of Lafayette Street, around the corner from the Merchant’s House, near the Cooper Union. The rowhouses are not open to the public, but …

Our Corn Planter Was Built By The Amish

[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] Our corn planter was built by Amish people in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania who do not use rubber-tired machinery, telephones, or a belt for their trousers. When we went down to Lancaster County to buy this corn planter, we found the Amish farmer spreading manure with a horse-drawn, steel-wheeled …

56 Mott Street

[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] After one visits the Tenement Museum, the wonton restaurant at 56 Mott Street in Manhattan is the go-to place. The address 56 Mott Street, just off Canal Street, was once the location of one of the most classic tenements that the tour guides mention in the Tenement Museum, …

Tenement Museum

[xf_textblock size=” font_color=” color=” animation_type=” animation_duration=’0.5′ animation_delay=’0.5′] Wickham’s Fruit Farm recommends the Tenement Museum, located in the same general part of Manhattan where the Merchants House Museum and Colonnade Row are located.  The Tenement Museum gives one-of-a-kind tours of a building that has survived more or less unaltered into the present day from the era …