Former owner
Peter Stuyvesant
1610 – 1672
Fragment of Stuyvesant pear tree
1650–1750
Place madeNew York, United States, North America
Wood
Overall: 8 1/2 in. × 1 3/4 in. × 23 in. (21.6 × 4.4 × 58.4 cm)
Gift of the Estate of Col. J. Mayhew Wainwright
1946.212b
This fragment comes from the pear tree which was brought from Holland as a sapling by Peter Stuyvesant (1592-1672), the last director-general of New Netherland. The tree was planted at Stuyvesant's bouwery, or country estate, at what is now the northeast corner of Third Avenue and 13th Street. The tree stood until February, 1867, when a vehicle collided against it and sent it crashing to the ground.
ClassificationsHISTORIC RELICS
DescriptionSection of tree cut vertically.Object NameFragment of Stuyvesant pear tree
Peter Stuyvesant
preserved in 1867
1867.439
