'Hamilton' is headed to Schenectady in less than a month but people from the Capital Region and beyond have been flocking to a site in Albany's South End to learn more about the man, his wife and their family.

Alexander Hamilton and his wife Eliza Schuyler got married in a room inside the Schuyler Mansion at 32 Catherine St. and even lived there for two years, but there's so much more to learn about the Schuyler family and the history of the hom  and the manager says a lot of people had no idea was even in their backyards until the musical hit the Great White Way in 2015.

"We really feel that this is one of the perfect vehicles to talk with visitors about all of these other subjects that we've talked about in the past," said Heidi Hill, historic site manager of both Crailo and the Schuyler Mansion.

Hill says since the award-winning musical took its shot on Broadway the number of visitors has more than doubled. They've added an Alexander Hamilton 'focus tour,' as well as one about the Women of the Schuyler mansion. Each year since, attendance has gone up, especially in 2017, the mansion's centennial as a historic site.

"This year, we're seeing another spike," Hill said. "Local people this time.”

In the last four years the mansion added extra tours and even has an open house at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoons, so they don't have to turn people away. This year, they added two more interpreters to their staff with a state grant and all the fanfare has allowed them to make period specific updates like a paper mâché ceiling the Schuylers used to have and new period-style carpet in the room where Eliza and Alexander were married.

"Visitors were waiting in the visitor’s center for tickets that might not even be available, they were purchasing ahead and waiting for someone to not show up for a focus tour," Hill said. 

And now an added opportunity for Hamilton fans from one of the mansion's local partners, the Albany Institute of History and Art, whose new exhibit on the Schuyler Sisters opened over the weekend. The mansion lent several items to exhibit.

Diane Shewchuk, the curator of the Schuyler Sisters & Their Circle, says several items will come and go now through Dec. 29.

"There are things that the lenders would allow to be away for three months or more," said Shewchuk. "So we've been able to when things go back, we've found new things to cycle in."

One of the key pieces only on display: Eliza Schuyler Hamilton's wedding ring -- which Spectrum News was not allowed to photograph --will head back to its owner on Oct. 27, but has an equally meaningful replacement.

Douglas Hamilton, who's the 5th great grandson of Alexander Hamilton is lending us Eliza Hamilton's gold mourning ring with Alexander Hamilton's hair in it that she wore after Hamilton's death," Shewchuk said.

Other items in the exhibit came from private collections, museums, colleges and other historical collections like Fort Ticonderoga, but Shewchuk says there's so much more for the museum, the mansion and others to gain and to give from the opportunity to the musical created.

"They were young people during a revolution, doing this amazing stuff to make America independent and it has roots in Albany," Shewchuk said.

Roots right on the Schuyler Mansion property. It's just a little more than a mile and a quarter from the Albany Institute of History and Art many at the museum and mansion said they walked the walk between the two sites to see what our founding fathers' walks were like in Albany where they lived here. They said it gives the exhibits and the mansion a lot of meaning for people who grew up in this area and are now starting to realize this incredible history is just a few minutes down the road. 

The Schuyler Mansion is open May-October, Wednesday-Sunday. All the details about tours and focus tours can be found on their website. The mansion also has a fundraiser set for Aug. 1 which will include a short character recreation of the whirlwird romance between the Schuyler and Hamilton, as well as food and drink. You can find those tickets here. 

Details about the "Schuyler Sisters & The Circle" exhibit, open now through Dec. 29 are here.