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Murray Hill, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States

In 1902-03 the prominent architectural firm of Hoppin & Koen remodeled a c.1862 brownstone row house to create this impressive Beaux Arts style mansion for Middleton S. Burrill and his wife Emilie Neilson Burrill. Burrill, a socially prominent attorney and businessman who was the first mentor of the famed Wall Street financier Bernard Baruch, purchased the house in 1901 and hired Hoppin & Koen to alter the house by adding an elegant Beaux Arts style facade, which combines elements derived from French and English 17th and 18th century sources. Hoppin & Koen designed several significant public installations, but also were known for their design of elaborate country houses.

The Burrill house features a two-story limestone base with arched openings at the parlor level that is surmounted by a balustrade resting on massive console brackets. The Philadelphia brick and limestone-trimmed upper stories display ornate molded window enframements, with the second story having pedimented window frames enriched with console brackets, dentils, and guttae, and the third story having eared surrounds with prominent keystones and projecting sills. The richly embellished entablature above the third story combines limestone moldings and frieze panels with elaborate console brackets and a modillioned cornice that is capped by a copper balustrade. The mansard roof has elaborate copper dormers capped by round-arched pediments.

The Burrills left the house in 1929 after which it was used as a rooming house in until 1945, when the property was sold by the trustees of the Burrill estate and converted into apartments and a medical office. The Middleton S. and Emilie Neilson Burrill House remains an impressive example of a Beaux Arts style row house in the Murray Hill section of Manhattan.

DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS

The Development of Murray Hill and East 38th Street

Prior to the arrival of the European fur traders and Dutch West India Company, Manhattan and much of the modern-day tri-state area was populated by bands of Lenape Indians. The Lenape traveled from one encampment to another with the changes of the seasons. Fishing camps were occupied in the summer and inland camps were used during the fall and winter for harvesting crops and hunting. The main trails ran the length of Manhattan from the Battery to Inwood following the course of Broadway adjacent to present-day City Hall Park before veering east toward the area now known as Foley Square. It then ran north traversing modern-day Fifth and Park Avenues in the vicinity of Murray Hill. In 1626, Dutch West India Company Director Peter Minuit “purchased” the island from the Lenape for sixty guilders worth of trade goods.

Under the English colonial government in the mid-18th century the area then known as Inclenberg was leased to some of the city’ prominent residents; including Robert Murray (17211786) a Scottish-born merchant and ship owner for whom the Murray Hill neighborhood is named. His leasehold was a wedge-shaped parcel of more than twenty-nine acres that extended roughly from just south of present-day East 33rd Street to present-day East 38th Street and was bounded on the west by the Middle Road, near present-day Madison Avenue, and on the east by the Eastern Post Road, near present-day Lexington Avenue. Murray’s property was dominated by a gentle rise where, roughly at the intersection of present-day East 37th Street and Park Avenue, he erected a mansion prior to 1762.

An active member of the Society of Friends or Quakers, Murray left instructions that upon his death in 1786 a certain bequest be “put out at interest” to be applied to the Friends School and that another be held until the society built a room for the Meeting House to accommodate women’s meetings. Murray was also interested in the manumission of slaves and the safety and welfare of those liberated. In his will he left a bequest to the society for the promoting the manumission of slaves to establish a free school for African-American children. Robert Murray’s real estate holdings at the time of his death were bequeathed to his children.

As the population centers of Manhattan were expanding outward, the state legislature, in 1807, established a commission made of Gouverneur Morris, State Surveyor Simeon De Witt and merchant John Rutherford to plan for the city’s growth. The commissioners established the street grid of twelve north-south avenues intersected by 155 east-west streets. Critical to the development of Murray Hill were the openings of Lexington Avenue and Madison Avenues to 42nd Street in 1833 and 1836 respectively and the closing of the Eastern Post Road between East 31st Street and East 42nd Street in 1848 at which time the Common Council conveyed the land to adjoining property owners.

In preparation for the eventual development of their holdings, the Murray heirs in 1847 drew up restrictive covenants that

Co. B, 9th KS. Cavalry
El Dorado Republican, Monday, Nov. 8, 1909, Pg. 2
Vol. XVII, No. 111


THOMAS BENTON MURDOCK
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In 1841 Thomas Benton Murdock was born in the mountains of Virginia. He was one of five children, who lived to maturity, of Thomas Murdock and Katherine Pierrepont. From the mother’s side came the pride of the Pierreponts; from the father’s the insurgent instincts of the Irish Murdocks who left Ireland after the Irish rebellion failed in 1798. So, even though reared in the mountains among most simple people and most primitive surroundings, the Murdocks who have dominated Kansas for half a century have been proud soldiers of the militant democracy. They have been fighters who led naturally, by instinct and training but never fighters for the old order. They always were pioneers, always moving out into new territory of thought and action, looking forward. Thomas and Katherine Murdock could not endure the iniquity of slavery so in 1849 they freed their slaves and left the slave country for Ohio. They settled near Ironton but lost everything they had in the panic of 1855, and loaded their household goods on a boat, went down the Ohio to the Mississippi and journeyed as far west as Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. There the family spent the winter and the father went to Kansas and found a location. He brought his family to Topeka in the winter of ’56-’57. They rented a little hotel and kept tavern, among others having for guests, Jim Lane and A. D. Stevens, famous as a border fighter under Montgomery and afterwards killed at Harper’s Ferry under old John Brown. Going and coming in the little Kansas tavern of the Virginia abolitionist were the men who made Kansas free and famous in the great conflict that began at Lawrence and ended at Appomattox.
In this atmosphere of strife and patriotism young Benton Murdock, a youth in his late teens, grew up. In 1860 the family homesteaded at Forrest Hill, near Emporia, and the father and mother lived in Emporia the remainder of their lives; the father died in 1896 and the mother in 1887.
When the civil war broke out Thomas Benton Murdock enlisted with his father and brother, Roland, in the Ninth Kansas Cavalry and served until the end of the war. He served in the Rocky Mountains in ’63 and there met J. H. Betts, now of El Dorado. When they met seven or eight years later in El Dorado John Betts kept eying Murdock and finally said: “Say, aren’t you the chap that relieved me of that army overcoat out west?” Murdock’s company was confiscating government property where ever he found it. Murdock looked at Betts and replied: “Well I guess I am. But I’m here to start a newspaper. What’s the chance?”
“Bully,” returned Mr. Betts, willing to let bygones be bygones, and they have remained friends for forty years.
Returning from the army where he had gone snow blind on the plains—a calamity that hung over him of his later days—young Murdock who had been a hod carrier and general work man as a youth around Topeka, learned the printing trade. He worked in the office of Emporia News then owned by P. B. Plumb and Jacob Stotler who had married Leverah Murdock during the war. His brother Marshall who had worked at the printers trade during the war was running the Burlingame Chronicle at the end of war. Young Benton went back to Ironton, Ohio, married the sweetheart of his boyhood, Francis Crawford, and came to El Dorado, March 4, 1870, and founded the Walnut Valley Times with J. S. Danford. His wife lived only a few years leaving at her death their daughter Mary Alice.
From the first Mr. Murdock became a leader in politics in Kansas. He stood for the Walnut Valley and the Kingdom of Butler. In 1876 he was elected a member of the state senate. He served with such men as E. N. Morrill, Charles Robinson, J. M. Hadley, father of the present governor of Missouri, Benjamin F. Simpson, J. R. Hallowell, D. W. Finney, W. A. Johnston, new chief justice of Kansas, all members of the senate, while in the house were Lyman U. Humphrey, John Gilmore, A. W. Smith, L. B. Kellogg, P. P. Elder. His political career was fostered and guided by Mrs. Antoinette Culbreth-Murdock who for a generation has been wife, friend, comrade, guide and inspiration, who bore him five children of whom Ellina Culbreth only now is living. Mrs. Murdock survives him with his two children. In 1880 he ran for senate again but was unfairly defeated he thought. He sold the Times and moved to Topeka and became connected with the Topeka Daily Commonwealth, then controlled by the Baker family. But El Dorado held his heart and he returned in 1883 and founded the El Dorado Weekly Republican. The Daily followed the Weekly in 1884 and the paper at once took a prominent place in the affairs of Kansas.
Mr. Murdock was, during the late senator’s life time, a friend and ally of P. B. Plumb. He and Plumb were young men together in Emporia, thought alike and had much in common in