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OLD BUILDINGS OF NEW YORK CITY
WITH SOME NOTES REGARDING THEIR ORIGIN AND OCCUPANTS
THE TROW PRESS, NEW YORK
Subjects
BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN PAGE
NUMBER SEVEN STATE STREET 19
FRAUNCES'S TAVERN 23
SUB-TREASURY AND ASSAY OFFICE 27
BANK OF NEW YORK 29
ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL 33
CITY HALL 39
ASTOR LIBRARY 43
LANGDON HOUSE 45
ST. MARK'S CHURCH 49
RUTHERFURD HOUSE 53
KETELTAS HOUSE 57
RESIDENCE OF EUGENE DELANO 59
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 61
FORMER RESIDENCE OF THE LATE JAMES LENOX 63
FORMER RESIDENCE OF THE LATE ROBERT B. MINTURN 65
GRACE CHURCH 67
SOCIETY LIBRARY 69
CRUGER HOUSE 73
ABINGDON SQUARE 77
GRAMERCY SQUARE 81 Residence of John Bigelow 83 Former Residence of the Late Luther C. Clark 85 Former Residence Of the Late James W. Gerard 87 "The Players"--Former Home of Edwin Booth 91 Former Residence of the Late Samuel J. Tilden 93 Former Residence of the Late Rev. Dr. H. W. Bellows 97 Former Residence of the Late Dr. Valentine Mott 99 Rectory of Calvary Parish 101 Former Residence of the Late Stanford White 103 Former Residence of the Late Cyrus W. Field and the Late David Dudley Field 105
FORMER RESIDENCE OF THE LATE PETER COOPER AND THE LATE ABRAM S. HEWITT 107
GENERAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 111
FORMER RESIDENCE OF THE LATE WILLIAM C. SCHERMERHORN 115
CHURCH OF THE TRANSFIGURATION 117
RESIDENCE OF J. PIERPONT MORGAN 121
FORMER RESIDENCE OF THE LATE THEODORE A. HAVEMEYER 123
FORMER RESIDENCE OF THE LATE SENATOR EDWIN D. MORGAN 125
THE OLD ARSENAL 127
CLAREMONT 129
HAMILTON GRANGE 139
JUMEL HOUSE 143
GRACIE HOUSE 151
BOROUGH OF THE BRONX
GOUVERNEUR MORRIS HOUSE 157
VAN CORTLANDT HOUSE 167
BOROUGH OF QUEENS
BOWNE HOUSE 171
BOROUGH OF RICHMOND
BILLOP HOUSE 175
Introductory
Recently a writer in a periodical stated that "No one was ever born in New York." It can be safely said that this is an exaggeration. Nevertheless it showed the confidence of the writer that the statement was not likely to startle his readers very greatly.
Probably not one in a hundred of the men in the street know or care anything about the town of fifty or sixty years ago. Still the number of those who were familiar with it then is large, however small in comparison with the whole number. In fact, the number of those whose predecessors were living here when there were not more than a thousand people in the whole place is much greater than is generally supposed.
It was for people belonging to the two latter classes that these pictures were taken. They may even interest some who have known the town for only a generation.
When a man has traversed the streets of a city for fifty years, certain buildings become familiar landmarks. He first saw them perhaps on trudging to school with his books, and has seen them nearly every day since. He experiences a slight shock whenever such buildings are destroyed. There appears something wrong in the general aspect of the town. Of late years these shocks have followed one another so continuously that he may well wonder whether he is living in the same place.
It occurred to the writer that it would do no harm to preserve the pictures of some of the landmarks still standing, especially as they are getting fewer in number all the time, and may shortly disappear altogether.
He regrets that he is unable to show a photographic presentment of many buildings that have disappeared in the last fifty years, or even during the life of the present generation. Some buildings that had a certain historical interest have been razed in the last twenty-five years, as, e. g., the Kennedy house, No. 1 Broadway, taken down to make way for the Washington Building, overlooking the Battery Park, or the old Walton house in Pearl Street near Franklin Square, removed in 1881, or the Tombs prison, removed in 1899.
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