Conference House Park
Coordinates: 40°30′11″N 74°15′11″W / 40.50306°N 74.25306°W
Conference House Park is a park in the Tottenville section of Staten Island, New York, one of the boroughs of New York City. The park is named after the historic Conference House a c.1680 stone manor house in which a peace conference was initiated on September 11, 1776 by Lord Howe representing the British Crown with representatives of the Continental Congress including Benjamin Franklin, in an effort to halt the American Revolution. The Conference House is available for tours. The area of the park was once part of Bentley Manor owned by the Billop family. The Henry Hogg Biddle house constructed between 1845 and 1853 is another historic structure in the park.
The park contains several other buildings such as the Ward House, the Biddle House, and the Rutan-Beckett House. All of the buildings listed above are currently closed for renovations.
The park is located along the coast along the Arthur Kill where it opens into Raritan Bay. The park contains clay bluffs, part of the terminal moraine, formed when the Wisconsin Glacier receded 10,000 years ago.
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