Trinity Churchyard: Where Alexander Hamilton Is Buried
Trinity Church · Broadway at Wall Street
In Hamilton's day
The city held the largest funeral it had seen. The procession wound through Lower Manhattan to Trinity Church, where the Hamiltons had a pew, and he was buried in the churchyard.
Eliza outlived him by 50 years, founded the city's first private orphanage, and is buried beside him.
Visiting today
Trinity Churchyard at the head of Wall Street, open daily. The church itself is the 1846 building. The Hamilton monument is on the south side, near Rector Street. Note: this is the downtown churchyard, not Trinity Church Cemetery on 155th Street.
Nearby in Hamilton's day
- Sons of Liberty, City Arms Tavern1765
Tavern on Broadway where merchants organized the boycott of British goods during the Stamp Act crisis.
- Livingston Sugar House prison1776
A sugar warehouse on Liberty Street where the British held captured American soldiers.
- Second Presidential Mansion1790
Washington moved to the Macomb house at 39 Broadway in February 1790.
- Madison's boardinghouse1787
James Madison lodged here on Maiden Lane while writing The Federalist with Hamilton and John Jay.
- Hamilton's home, 26 Broadwayto 1802
The family's last downtown house before the move to the Grange. Burr had lived at the same address in the early 1790s.
- New-York Evening Post1801
Hamilton raised the money to found the Evening Post in 1801 as a Federalist newspaper. It still publishes today as the New York Post.