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| George: "Mary, Please come with me to New York!" (Illustration by Norman Rockwell, 1932) |
On
April 23, 1789, just one week before being sworn in as the first
president of the United States, George Washington and his staff settled
into the country's first executive mansion, located at 10 Cherry Street in New York City. For nearly two years, before being moved to Philadelphia, the
seat of the U.S. government would be located in New York City; and
Manhattan would be home to the President and First Lady. The new nation was just starting to recover
from the long years of war, and nowhere was this better in evidence than
in Manhattan.
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