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Former resident1810–1865Jumel Terrace & Edgecombe Ave

Eliza Jumel

Eliza Jumel and her husband Stephen bought the Morris-Jumel Mansion in 1810; she married Aaron Burr there in 1833 and made it her primary home until her death in 1865.

Morris-Jumel Mansion, 65 Jumel Terrace

An old engraved portrait print of Madame Jumel (Eliza Jumel) from the New York Public Library's digital collections.
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The Morris-Jumel Mansion, Eliza Jumel's home
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Stephen Jumel, a French wine merchant, married American Eliza Bowen in 1804. In 1810 the couple bought the house then called Mount Morris, along with its land, according to the Morris-Jumel Mansion’s website. After Stephen died in 1832, Eliza married the former Vice President Aaron Burr in the home’s front parlor in 1833.

The museum says Eliza filed for divorce four months after the marriage, hiring Alexander Hamilton Jr. as one of her attorneys. Burr died in a Staten Island rooming house the day the divorce was due to be finalized in 1836. Eliza never remarried, and the museum says she made the mansion her primary residence, summering in Saratoga.

She died on July 16, 1865. The mansion at 65 Jumel Terrace is now a museum; as of October 28, 2026 its website says the interior is temporarily closed to tours, while Roger Morris Park is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.