This Place to Honor

Three Indomitable Families...
From 1824 to the present day, in the vibrant city where immigrants found wealth and power, the Morrisseys, the Kesslers, and a new generation on Van Gelders lived and died at 106 Rivington Street. For 150 years they spilled their blood and spent their passions on a dream of greatness...

The MORRISSEYS--Their tragic beauty, Kathleen, would found a bloodline of power in New York.

The KESSLERS--From the crucible of the Civil War, a son would emerge to build a new dynasty.

LAURA VAN GELDER--Descendant of the original Van Gelders, she would reclaim the house in the 1980's and strive to restore the family to its former grandeur. From was to the Gilded Age of industry to the demands of a new century, three families carved their legends upon the rock of history.