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{{Short description|Historic building in Manhattan, New York}}
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{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2022}}
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| name                     = Fraunces Tavern Block
| nrhp_type                = hd
| nocat                    = yes
| image                    = Frauncestavern.JPG
| caption                  = North and west fronts of Fraunces Tavern on Pearl Street at Broad Street
| location                 = Bounded by [[Pearl Street (Manhattan)|Pearl Street]], [[Coenties Slip (Manhattan)|Coenties Slip]], Water Street and [[Broad Street (Manhattan)|Broad Street]], New York, NY
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| built                    = Various
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| architecture             = Various
| added                    = April 28, 1977
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| mpsub                    =
| designated_other2_name   = New York City Historic District
| designated_other2_date   = November 14, 1978<ref name="NYCLP">{{cite news |title=Fraunces Tavern Block Historic District |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/maps/fraunces_tavern.pdf |work=NYC.gov |publisher=New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission |location=New York |date=August 1, 2005 |access-date=September 23, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019005253/http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/maps/fraunces_tavern.pdf |archive-date=October 19, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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| designated_other2_number = 0994
| designated_other2_color  = #ffe978
}}
{{Infobox NRHP
| name                     = Fraunces Tavern
| nrhp_type                = nrhp
| image                    = Fraunces Tavern, south side.jpg
| caption                  = West front of Fraunces Tavern on Broad Street
| location                 = 54 [[Pearl Street (Manhattan)|Pearl Street]], New York, NY
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| area                     =
| built                    = 1719
| architecture             = [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]]
| architect                =
| added                    = March 6, 2008
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| designated_other2_name   = New York City Landmark
| designated_other2_date   = November 23, 1965
| designated_other2_abbr   = NYCL
| designated_other2_link   = New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
| designated_other2_number = 0030
| designated_other2_color  = #ffe978
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'''Fraunces Tavern''' is a [[museum]] and restaurant in [[New York City]], situated at 54 [[Pearl Street (Manhattan)|Pearl Street]] at the corner of [[Broad Street (Manhattan)|Broad Street]] in the [[Financial District, Manhattan|Financial District]] of [[Lower Manhattan]]. The location played a prominent role in history before, during, and after the [[American Revolution]]. At various points in its history, Fraunces Tavern served as a headquarters for [[George Washington]], a venue for peace negotiations with the British, and housing federal offices in the Early Republic.

Fraunces Tavern has been owned since 1904 by [[Sons of the Revolution]] in the State of New York Inc., which carried out a major conjectural reconstruction, and claim it is [[Manhattan]]'s oldest surviving building. The museum interprets the building and its history, along with varied exhibitions of art and artifacts.<ref name="SRNY">{{cite news |title=Founders of Sons Saved Fraunces Tavern |url=http://www.sonsoftherevolution.org/sotr_frauncestavern.html |work=SonsOfTheRevolution.org |publisher=Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York Inc. |location=New York |access-date=October 22, 2009 |archive-date=May 4, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150504101615/http://sonsoftherevolution.org/sotr_frauncestavern.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[tavern]] is a tourist site and a part of the [[American Whiskey Trail]] and the New York Freedom Trail.<ref name="HappyHourGuys">
{{cite news |title=The Happy Hour Guys at Fraunces Tavern |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VyXYuFhcjw  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/7VyXYuFhcjw |archive-date=December 22, 2021 |url-status=live|work=YouTube.com |publisher=YouTube LLC |location=San Bruno, Calif. |date=February 7, 2008| access-date = September 15, 2009}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="NewYorkFreedomTrail">
{{cite news |title=Fraunces Tavern: Hangout of Sons Of Liberty; Hosted Washington, Several Cabinet Departments |url=http://www.nyfreedom.com/Frauncestavern.htm |work=NYFreedom.com |publisher=Eric Kramer and Carol Sletten |location=New York| access-date = October 22, 2009|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130130042827/http://www.nyfreedom.com/Frauncestavern.htm|archive-date=January 30, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> It is listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] and is a [[New York City designated landmark]]. In addition, the block on which Fraunces Tavern is located is a [[National Historic Landmark District]] and a New York City designated landmark district.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=146130|title=Fraunces Tavern|date=2023|website=www.hmdb.org|publisher=The Historical Marker Database}}</ref>

==Early history==

===Pre-Revolutionary history===
New York [[Mayor of New York City|Mayor]] [[Stephanus Van Cortlandt|Stephanus van Cortlandt]] built his home in 1671 on the site, but retired to his manor on the [[Hudson River]] and gave the property in 1700 to his son-in-law, [[Stephen DeLancey|Étienne "Stephen" DeLancey]], a French [[Huguenot]] who had married Van Cortlandt's daughter, Anne. The DeLancey family contended with the Livingston family for leadership of the [[Province of New York#Political parties|Province of New York]].

DeLancey built the current building as a house in 1719. The small yellow bricks used in its construction were imported from the [[Dutch Republic]] and the sizable mansion ranked highly in the province for its quality.<ref name="Brentano">
{{cite news |title=Old buildings of New York City: With some notes regarding their origin and occupants |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ygpuQAAACAAJ&q=Old+Buildings+of+New+York+City |publisher=Brentano's |location=New York |year=1907 |access-date=September 23, 2009|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230417032016/https://books.google.com/books?id=ygpuQAAACAAJ|archive-date=April 17, 2023|url-status=live}}</ref> His heirs sold the building in 1762 to [[Samuel Fraunces]] who converted the home into the popular tavern, first named the Queen's Head, and periodically known as Boltons Tavern or The Coffee House.<ref name=Stone>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/ldpd_6499120_000/page/n7/mode/2up|author=Stone, William L.|title=History of New York City from the Discovery to the Present Day|publisher=Virtue and Yorston|location=New York|year=1872|page=231}}</ref>

Before the [[American Revolution]], the building was one of the meeting places of the secret society, the [[Sons of Liberty]]. During the [[Boston Tea Party|tea crisis]] caused by the [[British Parliament]]'s passage of the [[Tea Act|Tea Act 1773]], the [[Patriot (American Revolution)|Patriots]] forced a British naval [[Captain (naval)|captain]] who tried to bring tea to New York to give a public apology at the building.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Diana|date=May 2, 2012|title=A Walk Through History, Fraunces Tavern, New York|url=https://www.thewingedsandals.com/fraunces-tavern-new-york/ |access-date=June 24, 2020|website=The Winged Sandals|language=en|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230417032107/https://www.thewingedsandals.com/fraunces-tavern-new-york/|archive-date=April 17, 2023|url-status=live}}</ref> The Patriots, disguised as [[Native Americans in the United States|American Indians]] (like those of the [[Boston Tea Party]]), then dumped the ship's tea cargo into [[New York Harbor]].

In 1768, the [[New York Chamber of Commerce]] was founded by a meeting in the building.<ref>{{Cite Americana |wstitle=Fraunces' Tavern |year=1920}}</ref> On June 13, 1771, [[George III|King George III]] of Great Britain granted a royal charter to establish "The Society of the New York Hospital in the City of New York in America" and a Board of Governors for the "reception of such patients as require medical treatment, chirurgical management and maniacs."<ref>{{cite book|author=Bailey, Harriet|url=https://archive.org/details/39002006316237.med.yale.edu/page/26/mode/2up|title=Nursing Mental Diseases|publisher=The Macmillan Company|location=New York|year=1920|page=27}}</ref> The first regular meeting of the Board of Governors of what is now known as [[NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital]] was held at Fraunces Tavern on July 24, 1771.<ref name="Stone" />

===Revolution===
In August 1775, Americans, principally the 'Hearts of Oak' – a student militia of [[Columbia University|King's College]], of which [[Alexander Hamilton]] was a member – took possession of cannons from the [[artillery battery]] at the [[Battery Park|southern point]] of Manhattan and fired on [[HMS Asia (1764)|HMS ''Asia'']]. The British [[Royal Navy]] ship retaliated by firing a 32-gun [[Broadside (naval)|broadside]] on the city, sending a [[Round shot|cannonball]] through the roof of the building.

In September 1780, [[Jane Tuers]], a local farmer from across the [[Hudson River]] in [[Bergen Township, New Jersey (1661–1862)|Bergen Township, New Jersey]] (now [[Jersey City, New Jersey|Jersey City]]), stopped into the tavern while selling her goods and spoke with Samuel Fraunces. He informed Tuers that British soldiers had been in the tavern toasting General [[Benedict Arnold]], who was to deliver [[West Point]] to the British. Tuers returned to Bergen later that day and informed her brother Daniel Van Reypen about the conspiracy. Van Reypen rode to [[Hackensack, New Jersey]] to meet with General [[Anthony Wayne]] who then sent Van Reypen to inform General Washington of the conspiracy. The information provided by Tuers confirmed what Washington had suspected of Arnold and led to the arrest, trial, conviction and hanging of co-conspirator [[John André]] for [[treason]] and stopped the plot to surrender West Point. Arnold would later defect to the British to escape prosecution.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://njcu.libguides.com/tuers|title=Jane Tuers (Jannetje Van Reypen Tuers)|website=njcu.libguides.com|accessdate=February 7, 2025}}</ref>

When the war was all but won, the building was the site of "British-American [[Public inquiry|Board of Inquiry]]" meetings, which negotiated to ensure to American leaders that no "American property" (meaning former [[Slavery in the United States|slaves]] who were [[Abolitionism in the United Kingdom|emancipated]] by the British for their [[military service]]) be allowed to leave with British troops. Led by Brigadier General [[Samuel Birch (military officer)|Samuel Birch]], board members reviewed the evidence and [[Testimony|testimonies]] that were given by [[freed slave]]s every Wednesday from April to November 1783, and British representatives were successful in ensuring that almost all of the [[loyalist]] black people of New York maintained their liberty and could be evacuated with the "Redcoats" when they left if so desired.<ref name="Schama">
{{cite news |title=Rough Crossing: The Slaves, the British, and the American Revolution |url=http://www.bbcshop.com/invt/9780563487098&bklist= |publisher=BBC Books |location=London |date=August 9, 2005 |access-date=October 21, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130118031631/http://www.bbcshop.com/invt/9780563487098&bklist=|archive-date=January 18, 2013}}</ref> Through this process, Birch created the [[Book of Negroes]].

====Washington's farewell to his officers====
{{Infobox historical event
  |Event_Name     = ''"Washington's Farewell to His Officers"''
  |Image_Name     = Washington's Farewell by Alonzo Chappel 1866.jpg
  |Imagesize      =
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  |Image_Caption  = Engraving after painting by [[Alonzo Chappel]]
  |Location       = Fraunces Tavern, Broad and Pearl Streets, New York Town
  |Date           = {{Start date|1783|12|04}}
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}}
British troops [[Evacuation Day (New York)|evacuated New York]] on November 25, 1783. The tavern hosted an elaborate "turtle feast" dinner on December 4, 1783 in the building's Long Room for General [[George Washington]], during which he bade farewell to his officers of the [[Continental Army]]. "With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable." He then took each of his officers by the hand for a personal word.<ref name="NewYorkSun">
{{cite news |last=Fleming |first=Thomas |title=Why Washington Wept |url=http://www.nysun.com/opinion/why-washington-wept/67471 |work=The New York Sun |publisher=TWO SL LLC |location=New York |date=December 4, 2007 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225141518/http://www.nysun.com/opinion/why-washington-wept/67471/|archive-date=2017-02-25}}</ref><ref name="FrauncesTavernMuseum">{{cite news |title=Sneek Peek at 2008 |url=http://www.frauncestavernmuseum.org/sneek_peak_2008.html |work=Fraunces Tavern Museum |publisher=Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York Inc. |location=New York |access-date=December 29, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100908225537/http://www.frauncestavernmuseum.org/sneek_peak_2008.html |archive-date=September 8, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="LibertysKids">
{{cite news |title=Liberty's Kids, episode 38 "The Man Who Wouldn't Be King" |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHY1kDirTx4  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/UHY1kDirTx4 |archive-date=December 22, 2021 |url-status=live|work=YouTube.com |publisher=YouTube LLC |location=San Bruno, Calif. |date=December 26, 2009 |access-date=December 29, 2009}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

===Post-Revolution===
In January 1785, New York City became the seat of the [[Confederation Congress]], the nation's central government under the [[Articles of Confederation|"Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union."]] The departments of [[United States Department of State|Foreign Affairs]], [[United States Department of the Treasury|Finance]] and [[United States Department of War|War]] had their offices at Fraunces Tavern.

With the ratification of the [[United States Constitution]] in March 1789, the Confederation Congress's departments became federal departments, and New York City became the first official [[Capital (political)|national capital]]. The [[inauguration]] of George Washington as first [[President of the United States]] took place in April 1789. Under the July 1789 [[Residence Act]], Congress moved the national capital to [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] for a 10-year period, while the permanent national capital was under construction in what is now [[Washington, D.C.]] The federal departments vacated their offices in the building and moved to Philadelphia in 1790.

==19th and 20th centuries==
[[File:Historic buildings of America as seen and described by famous writers; (1906) (14773061275).jpg|thumb|left|Fraunces Tavern, between the 1890 alteration and the 1900 restoration.]]
The building operated throughout much of the 19th century, but suffered several serious fires beginning in 1832. Having been rebuilt several times, the structure's appearance was changed to the extent that the original building design is not known.  The building was owned by Malvina Keteltas in the early 1800s.  Ernst Buermeyer and his family leased part of the property in 1845 and ran a hotel called the Broad Street House at this location until 1860.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www3.telus.net/modfos/Bios/Fraunces%20Tavern.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514105831/http://www3.telus.net/modfos/Bios/Fraunces%20Tavern.htm |archive-date=May 14, 2014 |title=Fraunces Tavern and the Buermeyers}}</ref>  After a disastrous fire in 1852, two stories were added, making the Tavern a total of five stories high. In 1890, the taproom was lowered to street level and the first floor exterior was remodeled, and its original [[Lumber|timbers]] sold as [[souvenir]]s. The Manhattan local society of the [[Children of the American Revolution|National Society of the Children of the American Revolution]] is located at Fraunces Tavern. As of 2020, the Senior Society President is Ms. Elsye Richardson.

=== Restoration ===
[[File:Valentine's City of New York guide book.jpg|thumb|Valentine's ''City of New York'' guide book (1920) by Henry Collins Brown, featured the tavern on the cover.]]

In 1900, the tavern was slated for [[demolition]] by its owners, who reportedly wanted to use the land for a [[parking lot]]. A number of organizations, most notably the [[Daughters of the American Revolution]], worked to preserve it, and convinced New York state government leaders to use their power of [[eminent domain]] and designate the building as a [[park]] (which was the only clause of the municipal ordinances that could be used for protection, as laws were not in place at the time for the subject of "[[Historic preservation in New York|historic preservation]]", then in its infancy). The temporary designation was later rescinded when the property was acquired in 1904 by the [[Sons of the Revolution|Sons of the Revolution In the State of New York Inc.]], primarily with funds willed by Frederick Samuel Tallmadge, the grandson of [[Benjamin Tallmadge]], George Washington's chief of intelligence during the [[American Revolution|Revolution]] (a plaque depicting Tallmadge is affixed to the building). An extensive reconstruction was completed in 1907 under the supervision of early [[historic preservation]] [[architect]], [[William Mersereau]].<ref name="Fraunces">
{{cite news |title=Fraunces Tavern |url=http://www.nyc-architecture.com/LM/LM020-FRAUNCESTAVERN.htm |work=NYC-Architecture.com |publisher=Tom Fletcher |location=New York |access-date=September 11, 2009|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130208160205/http://www.nyc-architecture.com/LM/LM020-FRAUNCESTAVERN.htm|archive-date=February 8, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> A guide book of the era called the tavern "the most famous building in New York".<ref>{{cite book |title=Valentine's City of New York |date=1920 |author=Henry Collins Brown |publisher=Valentine's Manual, Incorporated |lccn=20005206 |ol=14047198M |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Q8qAQAAMAAJ}}</ref>

Historian Randall Gabrielan wrote in 2000 that "Mersereau claimed his remodeling of Fraunces Tavern was faithful to the original, but the design was controversial in his time. There was no argument over removing the upper stories, which were known to have been added during the building's 19th-century commercial use, but adding the [[Hip roof|hipped roof]] was questioned. He used the [[Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site|Philipse Manor House]] in [[Yonkers, New York]] as a style guide and claimed to follow the roof line of the original, as found during construction, traced on the bricks of an adjoining building."<ref name="Gabrielan">
{{cite news |title=New York City's Financial District in Vintage Postcards |url=http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/book/9780738500683 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |location=Mount Pleasant, S.C. |date=May 23, 2000 |access-date=October 21, 2009|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230417032520/https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9780738500683|archive-date=April 17, 2023|url-status=live}}</ref> Architects Norval White and Elliot Willensky wrote in 2000 that the building was "a highly conjectural reconstruction – not a restoration – based on 'typical' buildings of 'the period,' parts of remaining walls, and a lot of guesswork."<ref>{{cite aia4}}</ref> Daniela Salazar at the website ''Untapped New York'' agrees, stating that the "reconstruction was extremely speculative, and resulted in an almost entirely new construction".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://untappedcities.com/2019/02/11/the-top-5-oldest-buildings-in-manhattan-nyc/ |title=THE OLDEST BUILDINGS IN MANHATTAN, NYC|date=February 11, 2019 |last=Salazar |first=Daniela |work=Untapped Cities |access-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230417030717/https://untappedcities.com/2019/02/11/the-top-5-oldest-buildings-in-manhattan-nyc/|archive-date=April 17, 2023|url-status=live}}</ref>

The building was declared a landmark in 1965 by the [[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]], and the surrounding city block bounded by Pearl Street, Water Street, Broad Street and [[Coenties Slip (Manhattan)|Coenties Slip]] was included on November 14, 1978.<ref name="NYCLP"/> The [[National Park Service]] added the surrounding city block to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] (NRHP) on April 28, 1977,<ref name="NRHP1"/> and the building was added to the NRHP on March 6, 2008.<ref name="NRHP3">
{{cite news |title=Fraunces Tavern |url= https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/08000140 |work=NPS.gov |publisher=National Register of Historic Places |location=Washington |date=March 6, 2008|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230417030739/https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/08000140|archive-date=April 17, 2023|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Bombing===
{{Infobox civilian attack
| title = Fraunces Tavern bombing
| date = January 24, 1975
| location = [[Manhattan]], [[New York (state)|New York]], U.S.
| type = [[bombing]]
| weapons = [[bomb]]
| perps = [[Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña|FALN]]
| perpetrator = Unknown
| fatalities = 4
| injuries = 50+
}}

A [[bomb]] planted in the tavern exploded on January 24, 1975, killing four people and injuring more than 50 others. The [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] clandestine paramilitary organization [[Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña]] (Armed Forces of Puerto Rican National Liberation, or FALN), which had executed other [[Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña#Major incidents|bomb incidents]] in New York in the 1970s, claimed responsibility. No one had been prosecuted for the bombing as of 2022.<ref name="FALN Bomb – Fraunces Tavern">{{cite news |title=Justice Story: FALN bomb kills 4 at Fraunces Tavern, where George Washington said farewell to troops |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/justice-story-faln-bomb-kills-4-fraunces-tavern-george-washington-farewell-troops-article-1.1008711 |access-date=April 17, 2013 |newspaper=NY Daily News |date=January 21, 2012 |author=Mara Bovsun|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170603152542/http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/faln-bomb-kills-4-fraunces-tavern-article-1.1008711|archive-date=2017-06-03}}</ref>

In a note police found in a phone booth nearby, the FALN wrote, "we … take full responsibility for the especially detornated (sic) bomb that exploded today at Fraunces Tavern, with reactionary corporate executives inside." The note claimed the bomb – roughly 10 pounds of dynamite that had been crammed into an attaché case and slipped into the tavern's entrance hallway – was retaliation for the "CIA ordered bomb" that killed three and injured 11 in a restaurant in [[Mayagüez, Puerto Rico]], two weeks earlier.<ref>[https://cronkite.asu.edu/projects/buffett/puertorico/independista.html Fraunces Tavern bombing], cronkite.asu.edu. Accessed November 10, 2022.</ref>

==Recent uses==

{{Infobox museum
| name            = Fraunces Tavern Museum
| location        = 54 [[Pearl Street (Manhattan)|Pearl Street]], New York, NY
| mapframe      = no
| established     = {{start date|1907|12|04}}
| visitors        = 25,000
| owner           = [[Sons of the Revolution]] in the State of New York, Inc.
| publictransit   = '''[[New York City Bus|Bus]]:''' {{NYC bus link|M15}}<br />'''[[New York City Subway|Subway]]:''' {{NYCS Broadway-Seventh Brooklyn|time=bullets}} at [[Wall Street (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)|Wall Street]], {{NYCS South Ferry|time=bullets}} at [[South Ferry/Whitehall Street (New York City Subway)|South Ferry/Whitehall Street]]
| website         = {{URL|http://frauncestavernmuseum.org/}}
}}

Since 1907, the Fraunces Tavern Museum on the second and third floors has helped to interpret the Fraunces Tavern and the collection of artifacts that it holds.  The museum comprises nine galleries: [[John Ward Dunsmore]] collection of painted scenes of the American revolution; the Elizabeth and Stanley DeForest Scott gallery of portraits of George Washington; the Long Room, the site of General George Washington's famous farewell dinner; the Clinton Room, a recreation of a federalist style dining room; the McEntee Gallery, depicting the history of the Sons of the Revolution; the Davis Education Center (Flag Gallery); and a number of other galleries and spaces used for periodic exhibitions. In 2014, for example, the museum exhibited 27 maps from the 1700 and 1800s, including a never before seen map from 1804 depicting the United States' postal routes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://frauncestavernmuseum.org/exhibits-and-collections/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130708175839/http://frauncestavernmuseum.org/exhibits-and-collections/ |archive-date=July 8, 2013 |title=Exhibits & Collections {{!}} Fraunces Tavern® Museum}}</ref>

The building served as the location of the [[Sons of the Revolution|General Society, Sons of the Revolution]] (a heritage organization similar to and competing with the "[[Sons of the American Revolution]]") office until 2002, when the General Society moved to [[Independence, Missouri]]. The Fraunces Tavern Museum maintains several galleries of art and artifacts about the Revolution including the McEntee "Sons of the Revolution" Gallery that displays much of the history of the Society.<ref name="BatteryParkTV">
{{cite news |title=Fraunces Tavern |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiJQswBBD_s  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/qiJQswBBD_s |archive-date=December 22, 2021 |url-status=live|work=YouTube.com |publisher=YouTube LLC |location=San Bruno, Calif. |date=November 2, 2009 |access-date=December 6, 2009}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

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==Gallery==
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File:Fraunces Tavern and National Register of Historic Places.JPG|[[National Register of Historic Places]] marker of [[United States Department of the Interior|U.S. Dept. of the Interior]]
File:George Clinton Room at Fraunces Tavern in New York City.JPG|[[George Clinton (vice president)|George Clinton]] Room at the Fraunces Tavern museum
File:Dining room at Fraunces Tavern.JPG|Dining room at Fraunces Tavern
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File:Fraunces Tavern plaque 01.jpg|Plaques at Fraunces Tavern
File:Fraunces Tavern sign detail.jpg|Fraunces Tavern sign
File:Sam Fraunces.jpg|''Sam Fraunces'', {{circa}} 1900 engraving, based on an undated ink sketch attributed to [[John Trumbull]]. The ink sketch is privately owned.<ref>"Portrait of Samuel Fraunces" in Rice, Kym S. (1985). ''A Documentary History of Fraunces Tavern: The 18th Century''. New York: Fraunces Tavern Museum. Appendix B, pp. 33-34.</ref>
File:George Washington says farewell to his troops at Fraunces Tavern, New York, 1783 by Henry Hintermeister.jpg|George Washington says farewell to his troops at Fraunces Tavern, New York, 1783 by [[Henry Hintermeister]]
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==See also==
* [[List of the oldest restaurants in the United States]]
* [[List of National Historic Landmarks in New York City]]
* [[List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan below 14th Street]]
* [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan below 14th Street]]
* [[List of the oldest buildings in New York]]

==References==
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==External links==
{{Spoken Wikipedia|Wikipedia Audio - Fraunces Tavern.wav|date=October 22, 2018}}
* {{Commons category-inline|Fraunces Tavern}}
* {{Official website|http://frauncestavernmuseum.org/}} (Fraunces Tavern Museum)
* {{Official website|http://www.frauncestavern.com/}} (Fraunces Tavern Restaurant)

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