NOHO, Manhattan — Sixty years in the past, the Product owner’s Home Museum in NoHo was the primary constructing in Manhattan to obtain landmark standing. However for a lot longer, the home has been a house to among the metropolis’s most well-known ghosts, former residents who, the lore goes, by no means went away.
The constructing was inhabited by the Tredwell household from 1835 to 1933. The household patriarch, the service provider Seabury Tredwell, lived there along with his spouse and their seven kids. The youngest youngster, Gertrude was born on the home and lived there her entire life earlier than dying at 93. She has been stated to hang-out the constructing ever since.
“Her story actually speaks to individuals as a result of it is extremely romantic,” for those who ask the founder and proprietor of Boroughs of the Useless Strolling Tours, Andrea Janes, who additionally co-authored A Haunted Historical past of Invisible Ladies: True Tales of America’s Ghosts, written with Leanna Renee Hieber. The ebook focuses on the lives of actual girls behind well-known ghost tales.
Janes says the ghost story stems from Gertrude having by no means gotten married. Seabury Tredwell by no means accredited of Gertrude’s beloved gentleman caller and so she remained single.
“The spinster trope is a really highly effective trope in ghost lore as a result of all girls left alone appear to draw or grow to be ghosts,” based on Janes. She thinks {that a} real love for the home could be what really motivates Gertrude’s ghost to hold round.
“How highly effective and the way inspiring to have this residence and Gertrude be one in the identical,” and that “once you’re right here you do really feel her and it’s actually stunning,” says Janes.
Whereas Andrea hasn’t encountered Gertrude herself, she suspects Seabury would possibly’ve reached out. Janes recollects feeling a chilly brush in opposition to her shoulder whereas standing close to the Seabury portrait within the parlor.
The Product owner’s Home Museum is open to the general public and levels the home for Halloween to recall the times after Seabury’s demise. It additionally provides candlelight excursions. Study extra right here.
