Cherry Street (Manhattan)
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Cherry Street is a one-way street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It currently has two sections, mostly running along parks, public housing, co-op buildings, tenements, and crossing underne
Looking west from Clinton Street towards Manhattan Bridge
East end of Cherry Street, Vladeck Houses and Corlear's Hook Park
Cherry and Catherine Streets, 1848
Martha Washington
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Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was the wife of George Washington, who was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after her death, s
Cherry Street (Manhattan)
…such for the next three Presidents and, in 1789 served as the first Executive Mansion for the President of the United States, George Washington, and Martha Washington. The mansion belonged to Col. Samuel Osgood, the first Postmaster General of the United States. Another house on Cherry Street, later demolished, was…
Portrait by Rembrandt Peale c. 1796
Dandridge at age eight
Chestnut Grove plantation (1919 photograph)
Martha Dandridge Custis in 1757: engraving by John Chester Buttre after a portrait by John Wollaston