Ezra Weeks, was a successful builder who served as a witness in a sensationalized murder trial.
The Weeks brothers’ main building project at the time was Hamilton Grange,[1] a country house in Harlem Heights in Upper Manhattan.
Ezra Weeks was an object of curiosity within New York City society circles.
Only a few years prior to being commissioned by Hamilton, he and his brother Levi were living at the corner of Greenwich and Harrison streets.
Ezra Weeks worked with John McComb Jr. in the construction of Gracie Mansion (1799) and Hamilton Grange (1802).