 After Isaac's death the house opened as a boarding house and "Teller's Villa" was advertised in NYC during the Cholera epidemic.John Pintard, the founding-father of the NY Historical Society, wrote to his daughter of his stay there during the summer of 1833.It was called the "Teller Mansion" because so many members of the Teller family were involved in politics and after one hundred years the fifth generation were of the Teller name.