• The Gallatin House

    Friendship Hill

    National Historic Site Pennsylvania

Indoor Activities

Friendship Hill Visitor Center

In 2006, the Visitor Center at Friendship Hill was move out of the Gallatin era kitchen to a post Gallatin era addition.

Tour the Gallatin House

Self-guided tour: The portions of the house from the Gallatin era are open to the public. The rooms they contain exhibits and some furnishings relating to the period of Gallatin's life when the addition was built.

Did You Know?

Daguerreotype of Albert Gallatin

Albert Gallatin remained active after retiring from the government.  In 1831, at age seventy, he was named president of the new National Bank of New York.  He served on the council that established New York University in 1831. He founded the American Ethnological Society in 1842, at age eighty-one.