Philip Schuyler's brick mansion at 32 Catherine Street in Albany is the Georgian house you have reached. This Georgian-style house, now a museum and an official National Historic Landmark, was constructed from 1761 to 1765 for Philip Schuyler. He later served as a general in the Continental Army and as an early U.S. Senator, and he lived here from 1763 until his death in 1804.
The home was built on eighty acres (32 ha), set approximately one-half mile (800 m) from the city, a deliberate choice made at the tail end of the French and Indian War, after it had been considered inadvisable to build outside the City of Albany. Philip and his wife, Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler, had three daughters, including Angelica, when they moved in. The mansion was declared a National Historic Landmark on December 24, 1967, and today it also contributes to the South End–Groesbeckville Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Picture the eighty acres that once surrounded this sturdy brick home, stretching roughly half a mile toward the city.