Lodging at Fraunces Tavern

In addition to serving meals and alcoholic beverages, providing lodging to guests was one of the essential functions of the colonial tavern. This was especially the case with larger urban taverns such as Fraunces Tavern, with its nine large public rooms and five bedchambers for guests. This new permanent exhibition in a room now open to the public will portray one of these private bedchambers. It is furnished to exemplify the accommodations provided to a typical wealthy merchant and the trunk he would have brought with him on his journey during Fraunces Tavern’s economic heyday prior to the British occupation of New York City during the Revolutionary War.

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