The building housing the Merchant's House Museum was built in 1832.

The Merchant's House Museum in Manhattan, a home built in 1832 by Joseph Brewster, has always been part of New York City's rich history. On Tuesday, Spectrum News NY1 officially reported that the ...

The Underground Railroad was a secret pathway to freedom for enslaved people escaping north, through woods, tunnels, private ...

A hidden passageway at Manhattan’s Merchant’s House Museum may be New York City’s earliest Underground Railroad site.

The safe house went by undetected until almost a century later. A hidden safe house once used by the Underground Railroad has been discovered within a famed NYC landmark museum. Inside the Merchant’s ...

An accidental discovery is shedding new light on a vital piece of American history.