About This Location
The Merchant's House Museum in NoHo was home to the Tredwell family from 1835 to 1933. Seabury Tredwell, a successful hardware merchant, lived there with his wife and eight children. The building is remarkably preserved with original furnishings and was the first Manhattan building to receive landmark status. At least eight people died within its walls over nearly 100 years of family occupation.
The Ghost Story
Dubbed "Manhattan's Most Haunted House" by The New York Times, the museum is believed to be haunted by Gertrude Tredwell, the youngest daughter who was born in an upstairs bedroom in 1840 and died there in 1933 at age 93. She never married after her father forbade her from wedding a young doctor she loved, and she became a recluse. The most common report is of a woman in a brown dress moving about the house. Staff computers freeze when typing "Tredwell." Visitors hear footsteps on stairs, piano music from an instrument that no longer works, and feel unexplained cold spots. In 2020, the museum launched paranormal research based on decades of strange phenomena.
