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A bit pricey for a ghost tour but worth it!

Living in Manhattan, the Merchants House Museum is something I always knew was there and I'd get to it eventually. I made a point of going on the candlelit ghost tour (a 7:30 p.m. slot) and I'm so glad I did. You can easily squeeze it into an evening with other activities thanks to its location and 90-minute duration. It's NYC, so you have to make every minute count! The house is grand, yes. And I'd love to see it in the daylight so I could take a better look at all of the furnishings. But around Halloween the decor gets a bit of a makeover thanks to funerary and mourning accents like covered mirrors and even a coffin in the parlor. Oh, and there are lots of mannequins positioned throughout that are QUITE creepy. So if you hate mannequins, be aware! You do a lot of walking up and down stairs, which if that's an issue for you, you may also want to skip. One time when we were descending the stairs from the top floor the guide told us to be careful, as one of the family's children died after she tripped and fell on the stairs! As for the tour guide and narration, everyone was a volunteer and the tour guide was very good. They weave in the history of the family with enough context for them to play recorded EVPs taken during investigations, supersized copies of photographs with unexplained things in them, and recordings of people recounting their supernatural experiences there. When I've been on other ghost tours I've really just heard retellings of the experiences and not recordings of the witnesses. So that may be different for you if you've been on a lot of these things. Additionally, if you'd like to learn more about the house, one of my favorited podcasts Bowery Boys, just released an episode about NYC haunted houses in which they tour the house. And one of the podcast hosts used to work at the house! (It's episode 301 and if you're interested in NYC history period, this is a must-listen podcast!)

Great little self tour. Knowledgeable proud nice staff. $15.00 a nice price. Lots of origional stuff.

Highly informative small museum in Bowery/East Village. Really worthwhile & amazing historical place, taking you back to see how wealthy New Yorkers lived in the early 1800s.

Wow. Original furnishings. Thats amazing. Im thoroughly pissed that i did not know about the tour. Being here on my own from Louisiana...This is a great place, it is rare to be able to retain furnishings and decor thru generations.

Hi, so sorry you didn't know about our 2pm tour. Info is on the website and wherever else we can let people know. Just curious why you gave the museum 4 stars instead of 5. Your comment seems to warrant a 5! Is there something we can improve? Thanks for visiting!

I've lived in New York City for 14 years and somehow missed this place for that long... What a shame because it's pretty incredible. I did the self-guided tour, which was a binder full of very informative, balanced information. You don't just learn about the rich- proper attention is paid to the servants' as well. You can move at your own pace and spend as much time in each room as you'd like. It really does feel like you're visiting someone's home and they'll be back any minute. It's a feeling I've never had in any other museum before- so wild. Please visit. You won't regret it.

After not getting to see this home on my last trip to NYC a few years ago since it was a day it was closed, I was happy to see it at last. What a treasure to think of 100 years of a family's possessions saved for all! I arrived in time to join a 2:00 tour, and it was very well done. I noticed people who arrived later and didn't join the tour were provided with binders they could look through for information. Our tour guide provided so much information I didn't feel the need to ask for a binder later as well to learn more. What a wonderful experience - we are all so fortunate someone had the forethought and means to preserve the entire house and its contents. There was one thing on display about which I am sure the past owner would be a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y mortified if she knew. (Or maybe she would think it was hilarious.) But times and mores, they have changed. This is a gem of a place -- thank you to everyone who helps maintain this treasure.

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What Are New York’s Most Sought-After Ghosts Getting Up to Without Visitors?

“Manhattan’s most haunted house” offers a glimpse of how the COVID-19 shutdown might affect spirits used to daily tourists.

In 1982’s Poltergeist , the Freeling family gets snatched by an animated tree, pulled up to the ceiling by an invisible demon, attacked by a possessed clown, and sucked into a snowy television. The overwhelming message of these paranormal encounters is clear: get out . The demons and spirits hanging around the Freeling home are not exactly rolling out the red carpet.

It’s a familiar trope in horror movies: a family moves into a haunted house and ghosts proceed to defend their territory. How much truth is there to the idea that spirits want humans out of their homes toot sweet, though? A pandemic-triggered shutdown and a famous destination for paranormal activity provide a perfect way to find out.

The Merchant’s House Museum is a 19th-century home and National Historic Landmark at 29 East Fourth Street in the neighborhood of New York City known as NoHo. Hardware merchant Seabury Tredwell purchased the house in 1835, and his family would live there for nearly a century. In 1936, a cousin of the Tredwells realized the home’s value and turned it into a museum. According to Anthony Bellov, a Merchant’s House board member and longtime volunteer who leads detailed tours discussing the home’s architecture, furniture design, and lighting, the museum is a snapshot of its Manhattan neighborhood during another period.

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“It’s very apt to say you walk in the front door and enter the 19th century,” Bellov says. “It’s as close to time travel as anyone can get now.” Visitors come from all over the world to get a slice-of-life look at a typical, upper-middle-class family in 19th-century New York. They also come to see if they can meet a member of that family.

Visitors come from all over the world to get a slice-of-life look at a typical, upper-middle-class family in 19th-century New York. They also come to see if they can meet a member of that family.

Dubbed “ Manhattan’s most haunted house ” by The New York Times , the Merchant’s House has become the subject of regular paranormal investigations, both amateur and professional . As much as it attracts those interested in history and architecture, the home entices those interested in all things ghostly. Bellov says the museum’s board started offering ghost tours in 2007 after years of watching people capitalize on the house’s haunted reputation—writing articles, stopping outside on ghost tours, publishing books— and not even getting that reputation right.

“We sat down and discussed how we could take ownership of this aspect of the museum,” Bellov says. “We felt a responsibility to portray the home positively if we could, and honestly.” Fortuitously, as the board was devising how to establish ghost tours, a paranormal investigator named Dan Sturges wrote a letter asking if he could investigate the Merchant’s House. A partnership was born: Sturges still guides regular tours of the home, where guests learn not just about the Tredwell family and their Irish servants that may be lingering, but about the equipment and methods Sturges employs in attempting to reach them.

Considering how tuned in to a possible paranormal presence the Merchant’s House board is, this museum is the ideal testing ground to examine the effects of the pandemic on a destination with such a ghostly draw. Here is a place that went from being a family home for a century to being a museum for nearly as long, with visitors flocking in for possible spiritual encounters since 2007. Has this sudden, unprecedented halt in foot traffic affected the entities who may be hanging around the Merchant’s House? And do those effects prove right or wrong the trope of living beings as unwanted party crashers in a ghost-inhabited home?

To attempt to answer these questions, it’s important to understand that there are different kinds of spirits, explains celebrity psychic Jesse Bravo . Some presences are nonconscious, going through repetitive patterns of activities they did while alive. These spirits wouldn’t change whether their space is bustling or not. Other presences actually need the energy of living beings in their space, and how they act will depend on that energy.

“When you have a place with a lot of people and a lot of energies, the spirits are feeding off of that,” Bravo says. “They’re fueled by energy: happy, depressed, or pure excitement.” Basically, ghosts in a home filled with tourists aren’t going to be angry just because the tourists are there. Instead, their energies will reflect the energies of those tourists—in this case, those tourists are doing something fun and are likely to exude positivity.

“It’s just like people who are alive,” Sturges says. “You’d rather interact with someone having fun and enjoying the home than someone who is afraid to walk into a room or is being disrespectful to the house.”

The exchange of positive energy extends to the Merchant’s House staff, too. Because they have a real love for the home, the entities there seem to recognize that and express gratitude. In fact, in a trend that would debunk the message of almost every ghost movie you’ve ever seen, most encounters at the Merchant’s House are benevolent.

Basically, ghosts in a home filled with tourists aren’t going to be angry just because the tourists are there. Instead, their energies will reflect the energies of those tourists—in this case, those tourists are doing something fun and are likely to exude positivity.

“I always tell people if they have an experience, it’s not going to be scary,” says Laura Wasson, a creative director in advertising who has volunteered as a ghost tour guide at the museum for eight years. While Wasson and Bellov have had their own experiences, most of the recorded encounters at the Merchant’s House come from visitors. It’s important to note that, according to Bellov, the museum’s board doesn’t think of the home as “haunted.” The Merchant’s House is first and foremost a historical landmark that happens to have a ghostly element that appeals to some. Bellov, Sturges, and Wasson are all skeptics who only acknowledge experiences that cannot be explained any other way.

Sturges emphasizes that he cannot claim to know who he might be connecting with. When looking for electronic voice phenomena, or EVP—sounds only heard after an investigation on a recording device that aren’t picked up by other devices simultaneously recording—Sturges directs questions to a particular Tredwell family member or servant and may get answers, but can’t say for sure that that means he actually heard from that person. Short of foolproof confirmation, though, findings paint a picture of the home’s possible entities.

The inhabitants of the Merchant’s House included the Tredwell family: father Seabury, mother Eliza, and children Elizabeth, Horace, Mary, Samuel, Phebe, Julia, Sarah, and Gertrude, as well as four Irish servants: Ann Clark, Bridget Murphy, Mary James, and Mary Smith. Wasson says most people on her tours have reactions in Eliza and Seabury’s room (there have even been fainters).

“A lot of people who have reactions in Seabury’s room, specifically, are young women, and he of course had many daughters and was known to be a tough dad,” Wasson says.

Eliza’s room is thought to be the most haunted in the house. Sturges recalls an investigation there where one member of his group looked in Eliza’s dresser mirror and asked if Eliza thought she was pretty. When listening to the recordings later, one device picked up a female voice answering that question: “Pleasant enough.”

Bellov says several entities have been positively identified—guests who tell staff of sightings are then shown family photos and will pick out who they encountered. In addition to Seabury, Eliza, Elizabeth, and Gertrude, who was the last living dweller of the home, some of the servants pop in, too, especially when staff members are alone in the house locking up. Wasson says their energy is always “happy and helpful.”

Even if spiritual encounters don’t feel grounded enough in reality, there’s a major ghost-related project taking place at the Merchant’s House that has Sturges excited, and that wouldn’t be possible without the shutdown. Because there are no tours happening and rooms are left undisturbed for the first time in the museum’s 80-plus years, Sturges has partnered with a scientist (who prefers to remain anonymous) to set up advanced equipment in certain spots. There’s a touchscreen computer that has been registering lines drawn—deliberate, retraced lines that occur when Sturges attempts to interact with Eliza. There are also cameras running 24/7 to make sure no humans are actually in those rooms creating those results.

Because there are no tours happening and rooms are left undisturbed for the first time in the museum’s 80-plus years, Sturges has partnered with a scientist (who prefers to remain anonymous) to set up advanced equipment in certain spots.

The project’s findings will be included in an online version of the ghost tour the Merchant’s House is working on now. Ghost tours are typically run once a month with a few exceptions, and at a much greater frequency in October running up to Halloween. Like any museum, the house has been hurting from the sudden stop in visitors. Although it was able to reopen earlier this month, tours and capacity are limited. However, they also currently offer free online programming and virtual tours: Bellov will be doing a virtual version of his Behind the Ropes tours on architecture, furniture, and lighting, and there will be that online ghost tour. Of course, this version won’t offer the same thrill of a possible encounter—Eliza doesn’t do Zoom—but it promises to intrigue those interested in the science of paranormal investigating and the history of the home and its reputation. Plus, thanks to the findings of Sturges’s current project, virtual ghost tours will fill would-be visitors in on just what these spirits have been up to without them.

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“ Built in the early 1800's, the Tredwell Family lived here until the last daughter died in 1933. ” in 8 reviews

“ It is the house of a merchant from the 19th century and is intact with the original family's furniture in it. ” in 19 reviews

“ The Merchant's House is the only family home in New York City to survive intact, inside and out, from the 1830s. ” in 8 reviews

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Discover what life was really like in mid-19th century New York City. The Merchant's House is the City's only family home preserved intact -- inside and out -- from the 19th century. Built in 1832 just steps from Washington Square, this elegant red-brick and white-marble row house on East Fourth Street was home to a prosperous merchant family and their Irish servants for almost 100 years. Complete with the family's original furnishings and personal possessions, the house offers a rare and intimate glimpse of domestic life in New York City from 1835-1865. Visit www.merchantshouse.org for more information on the history of the house and Museum tours and programs. Oh, and some say we have ghosts. "Manhattan's most haunted house," according to The New York Times. …

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This I would like to call a hidden Gem in NYC. It's a 19th century house that is still fully in place and looks completely original so I can't imagine how it was all preserved so well. As I walked through I could easily imagine how they lived back then with some things looking quite typical of our modern world yet it is all back in the 1800s which makes it all the more interesting. It really showed me that we aren't all that different except technology over the last hundred years has extremely modernized us with our homes. How will homes be a other hundred years from now? Definitely take a tour of this home as it won't taken an entire day, even a couple of hours would be great!

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What a fun museum downtown! The house is preserved to show the upper class NYC dweller in the 1800s. We did the self guided tour - each person was given a binder with information about each of the rooms in the four floor house. The tour was informative and very fun! The house is very well preserved and was like a transportation back in time. We had a fun time here, took about an hour to get through the tour. The docents and everyone there was also super friendly! Recommend this as an off the beaten path nyc spot!

This is a beautiful small and local historical museum that people sleep on constantly! I highly recommend going in first thing to do the tour - but you can definitely go in on a self guided tour - you can spend as long as you want looking at everything but I'd say generally you can probably take a look through everything within 1.5 hours. Which is such an easy commitment to make as opposed to the much bigger museums in the city. They do a bunch of events during holidays - particularly around Halloween and Christmas so check those out. And also - they're right in the Union Sq/Washington Park/Village area so after doing a quick run through the museum there are a bunch of things to do around the neighborhood. Highly recommend it!

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I've walked past this building my whole life and I can't believe it has taken me so long to visit The Merchants's House Museum. If you are interested in New York City history at all this museum is worth your time. We did the guided tour and I would recommend this option for your visit, you'll learn so much more than walking through the house on your own. Sadly I do not remember our guide's name but he was fantastic and knew everything about the house, the family, and the general history of the city.

So we stumbled upon this place completely by accident, just checking around the area on Google maps. Seeing "museum" always piques my interest and I'm so glad we decided to stop in. This is the only 19th century NYC house preserved as it was when it was still occupied. HOW COOL IS THAT?! We were told that about 90% of the furnishings belonged to the original family. The house is still in incredible condition and it truly is like walking through a time portal. We heard that since it's supposedly haunted, there are special tours in October...if we ever find ourselves back in October I think we'll need to make a trip back. Absolutely worth the time to visit.

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Time your visit to take the guided house tour. Time your visit to take the guided house tour. Time your visit to take the guided house tour. The docent who led our tour provided a wealth of very interesting information not only on the house and its furnishings, but on the history of lower Manhattan, the life of residents of the period, the life of servants, social customs, even fascinating details on seemingly simple topics s/a lighting, heating, and who actually used what today is a very nice garden in the back. In more modern times you learn how NYC laws can be used by developers to put the future viability of the house at grave risk. Owned by a single family, it is "the only family home in New York City to survive intact from the 19th century with original furniture, decorative arts, and personal possessions." Well worth visiting, it provides a welcome respite from the frantic energy of NYC.

What a delightful find! It's like stepping back in time. The wealth of information provided in the self guided tour allows one to visualize what it would be like to live in this era. From common customs at the time to the background of servants and their plight to daily chores and couture- you will leave happy and more knowledgable than when you walked in.

What a gem of a place! The staff were great and provided us with a ton of information about the house's fascinating history.

A fantastic gem in the heart of New York City. Immersive history at its finest on East 4th street. Go inside the life and home of wealthy merchant Seabury Treadwell and family. The kitchen and parlor rooms are particular highlights, as well as the comparative brightness of today's lights and technology. Bravo to our volunteer docent we had accompany and explain everything on our tour Saturday, April 10. An experiential afternoon that is truly transportive in every sense of the word. One tip: add more items to the gift shop. Magnets with interior photos, pencils (a high margin item), and perhaps some more literature about New York City history, although the printed list for takeaway is wonderfully comprehensive. A+. Dont forget to make a donation to support them too.

We went to the candlelight Halloween tour for the house that's coined "the most haunted house in Manhattan." Skip the cheesy haunted houses and head to this home with history. It's as kitschy, mystifying and interesting as you hope, not necessarily scary, but that's probably for the best. The guides get right down to business, sharing audio footage of recordings of voices heard speaking in the house when prompted with questions. The answers are actually full of personality and of the era, which makes the audio the most convincing part that ghosts reside there. There's one scary gag they do that made everyone nearly piss their pants, and it was a great way to shake up the tour. The employees/guides are all volunteers which is incredible and shows the dedication people have to keeping the museum alive. This is definitely their most profitable season. 5 Stars!!!!!!!

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Private Candlelight Ghost Tour of the Merchant’s House Museum

A Private Candlelight Ghost Tour of the 1832 Merchant’s House Museum

Join us for a spooky night of fun with Carl Raymond, host of The Gilded Gentleman — limited tickets available!

Join Carl Raymond, host of The Gilded Gentleman history podcast (produced by Bowery Boys Media) for a truly unique visit to what the New York Times has called “Manhattan’s Most Haunted House” . Shortly following the death of patriarch Seabury Tredwell’s last surviving daughter, Gertrude, in 1933, strange things began to happen.

The family home built in 1832, still filled with their belongings and furniture today, became a museum in 1936 and visitors and staff have reported hearing footsteps, seeing apparitions of family members, as well as finding unexplained orbs of light appearing in photographs. 

In recent years, the Museum has conducted an on-going series of in-depth investigations with a paranormal research team who have assembled a significant amount of curious evidence of activity in the House. 

On this tour, Carl will escort guests through three floors of the House, lit entirely by candlelight, and will share a variety of stories of instances of paranormal activity, including several things he has experienced himself. The tour will include visual as well as audio examples from paranormal research including fascinating examples of EVP, electronic voice phenomena. 

This special tour with The Gilded Gentleman is offered exclusively through Bowery Boys Walks. Carl will conduct the tour in the mourning attire of a 19th-century gentleman. 

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Is the Merchant’s House truly haunted? After taking this tour, you will have the facts and evidence to decide for yourself. 

Don’t miss this truly unique private experience to explore the Merchant’s House Museum and its history — in a very special way. Due to space constrictions in the House, tickets are extremely limited.

Here’s what people are saying about tours with Carl Raymond:

“ Carl, our guide, was fantastic. He wasn’t working from a script; he’s an expert in his topics and his delivery was a combination of expertise, friendliness, personal experience, and humor. It was the kind of tour I hope I get and almost never do. If Carl is an example of the Bowery Boys’ tours — and given the quality of the podcast, I’m guessing he is, I would take any of their tours to any part of the city and know I’m in great hands and will come away fulfilled. “ – Bowery Boys Walks guests on TripAdvisor

This tour is best suited for ages 16+

Your Guide: Carl Raymond is the host of The Gilded Gentleman History Podcast , produced by Bowery Boys Media.

Prep for the Merchant’s House Museum tour by listening to Bowery Boys episode #301  “Haunted Houses of Old New York.”

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Just recently went on the candlelight ghost tour at the Merchant House in New York City. What a delightful spooky fun adventure if you are into the paranormal and history of the house.

I didn't make it in time for the guided tour, so the staffer handed me a binder and sent me off on my own. The house and furnishings are really a sight to see, but next time I'll wait for a tour guide.

It was well worth the effort to find this little bit of history tucked away in a back street. everything preserved just as the family left it whilst all around was being torn down. The self guided tour is really well written and gives a real insight to the social requirements of the day, of the well off family and the poor Irish girls they employed for a pittance.

We live in ny and are always looking for non-touristy historical things to see in the city. This was worth the trip. It was really neat to see a home left in its original state right in the middle of NYC! Not for children but adults will find it intriguing. There are stairs to climb so I don't think it's handicapped accessible. I would recommend family members visit here when they are in ny.

A really interesting historical site. Gave us a real sense of how domestic life was in this part of NYC in 19th century for an upper middle class family and their servants. We almost felt as if we had met them! You can do your own tour as the leaflet gives a lot of information about each room or join one of the guided tours. Very good value.

The house kitchen is currently under construction. The tour guides are very well informed. Young children would be bored. I suggest this for those who are interested in viewing old homes. I enjoyed it but wish I knew the kitchen was not completed. A discount ticket was provided for your next trip because of the kitchen. The dresses of the women of the house were not on displace. I wish they were. This is NYC only family preserve home, great architectural and old time furniture. Interesting story about the house and its family. Many stairs be prepare to walk up and down them.

After a month-long restoration, the kitchen (along with the entire house) is now OPEN to visitors. Please check our website for all restoration updates.

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Merchant's House Museum

Save the merchant’s house, in december, the landmarks preservation commission approved a development next to the merchant’s house that will destroy one of new york’s first landmarks, a family home built in 1832 that remains intact, inside and out., it is critical that the adams administration and its buildings department step in to protect this vital and irreplaceable part of new york’s history before it is gone … forever., please take 30 seconds to email the adams administration urging them to save the merchant’s house., thank you for your support, learn more & donate..

At particular risk is our original – and landmarked – 1832 ornate ornamental plasterwork (considered the finest surviving from the period) as well as the plaster walls and ceilings. Vibrations from construction next door could cause it literally to come crumbling down.

Upcoming Events

Sunday, May 12 & 26, 1:30 p.m. The Tredwells’ World of 19th Century Noho Walking Tour

Saturday, May 18, 1:30 p.m. Reinventing the Bond Street Neighborhood, 1865-1900 Walking Tour

Tuesday, May 21, 5 to 7 p.m. NoHo Art Night in the Garden Garden Event

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Visit the Merchant’s House

Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays Take a Guided Tour, 12 p.m. Visit five floors of period rooms, as well as the rear garden, with one of our knowledgeable guides. 60-75 minutes. $20, FREE for MHM Members.

Visit at Your Own Pace, 1 to 5 p.m., last entry 4:30. Our self-guided tour booklet will lead you through five floors of period rooms, as well as the rear garden. Docents are available to answer questions. $15, FREE for MHM Members.

Masks are recommended but not required. Tickets & Information

Merchant's House Museum

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