An earlier version of this article incorrectly identified the Conference House on Staten Island as the only pre-Revolution manor house remaining in New York City. In fact, the Van Cortlandt House ...

The Conference House, located in the neighborhood of Tottenville, was the site of a peace conference during the Revolutionary War. (Alexa Viggiano for the Staten Island Advance)(Alexa Viggiano for ...

The house where this meeting occurred still stands in the southernmost town of New York City, Tottenville, Staten Island, Known today as the Conference House, for that fateful day in 1776 ...

The city Parks Department is in the process of making repairs to the damaged bird blind and a destroyed walkway bordering the beach in Conference ... and the rest of Staten Island with high ...

In 1937, the house was opened to the public and became the first house museum on Staten Island. Conference House is a member of the Historic House Trust of New York.

Staten Island’s Conference House Park pavilion should have been well into its $3.7 million renovation by now but a series of setbacks has kept the project dormant for years. Alas, the project ...