Fraunces Tavern's Long Room - Vintage Postcard

The historic Long Room in Fraunces Tavern, at 54 Pearl Street, corner of Broad Street. New York City. Vintage postcard by The Lacroix Co., N.Y., before 1940.

Samuel Fraunces established his tavern in 1763, after he bought the former de Lancey mansion, the year before. Fraunces rented out his tavern’s Long Room for meetings and other events. The location, near the Manhattan docks and close to the Royal Exchange, also helped to make this place very popular in the last decades of the 18th century.

Many historic events happened in the Fraunces Tavern's Long Room, but the most remembered took place on December 4, 1783, when General George Washington delivered his Farewell Address to his officers in the Long Room.

The Long Room was restored in 1906/1907 and redesigned in the 1960s.