Ex Htbrte SEYMOUR DURST When you \eave, please leave this book Because it has been said "Ever thing comes t' him who waits Except a loaned book." Avf.ry Architectural and Fine Arts Library Gift of Seymour B. Durst Old York Library BROOKLYN ^^HE former city of Brooklyn, now a borough of the huge metropolis of Greater New York, is situated on the western end of Long Island, south and east of Manhattan Island, from which it is separated by the body of water known as the East River. This great borough is about eight miles in width and somewhat over eleven in length, and includes within its boundaries about seventy-eight square miles. Only Chicago, New Orleans and Philadelphia exceed Brooklyn in area, and only Manhattan, Chicago and Philadelphia have more inhabitants than its total population of 1,100,000. Brooklyn was first settled by a colony of the Dutch India Company, who founded the village of " Wallabogt," near the Navy Yard, but the settlement received later the name of " Breucklyn," in honor of an old Netherland city. In after years many New Knglanders made their homes here, and the intellectual and literary character for which the city has long been famous may be attributed to the influence of their posterity. Unlike New York, Brooklyn is not a cosmopolitan city. It has rather the conservative atmosphere of a New Kngland community. The greater part of the city is elevated high above tide water and the streets are wide and for the most part at right angles. Thousands of men in various walks of industry on Manhattan Island sleep and keep their families in the more pleasant surroundings of the "City of Churches," a well deserved name, when it is realized that within its borders are about five hundred houses of worship and almost six hundred thousand members. The first church was erected in 1654. Brooklyn is noted as a great financial center. Its sixteen savings banks have an aggregate deposit of nearly $200,000,000 and its eighteen national state banks a surplus of $9,000,000 and deposits of $50,000,000. The total assessed valuation is over $700,000,000. The Park System of the Borough of Brooklyn is without a superior in the world. In particular the great Prospect Park vies with Central Park, Manhattan, and with Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, for the first honors as the most beautiful public reservation in America. The many improvements now projected in the shape of wonderful bridges and tunnels which will link closer the splendid borough with its sister Manhattan are bound to make the city still greater in population and wealth in the immediate future. The magnitude of the coming Brooklyn of this century cannot be forecasted readily. The city's possibilities are illimitable. It is destined to be the scene of great industrial and commercial enter- prises, without any sacrifice of the unaffected cast of its intellectual and social life. It is, at least, safe to prophesy that the Borough of Brooklyn will eventually be the greatest part of the most marvelous metropolis the world has ever seen. Published by L. H. NELSON COMPANY, Portland, Maine, Proprietors of Nelson's International Series of Souvenir Books. Copyright, 1905, by L. H. NELSON COMPANY FULTON STREET FROM TEMPLE liAR HUILDING I- niton Street i« the main artery in Hrooklyn, running f rom East River almost to tlie farthest limits of the Borough. Fulton and Catherine ferries and the great I i - 1 Kiwi Hi idge land ujion this lmsy thoroughfare. Many of the finest public buildings and largest business edilioes adorn Fulton Street. From the towers of tli. Temple li.ir Itn ild mg a panorama of Hrooklyn stretches away to the east, showing hundreds of notable buildings and famous streets, the centers of the home life and business activities of over one million and a half of people. THE PRINCIPAL BUSINESS SECTION In the center of this view towers the lofty Temple Bar Building. Nearby is the Court House, the scene of the celebrated " Beechcr Trial " aNo the Hall of Records, the Mun.dpal Building, and prominently, the Borough Hall. About these imposing and costly structures are grouped substantial oftice building banks, theatres, newspapers, etc., while for a dozen blocks above, Fulton Street is lined with scores of great stores. This section of the city Is beoomfau more and more congested from the demands of business and is gradually taking on an appearance similiar to the lower end of Manhattan THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE str.-nlies Iroin Km I ton and Sands street*, Brooklys, to opposite City Hall Park, New York. This magnificent bridge was begun in 1S70 and opened to the public in 188.1. Cost $21,000,000. It consists of a central river span 1,595 feet long and two land spans, with a total length between terminals of 7, r>80 feet The hridgeway lames I « cable and two trolley car tracks, two wagon ways and a footpath. 4.IMKI cars and _',(KK) vehicles pass east and west every day. The average number of l> i". tigers in twenty-four hours is 300,000. It is estimated that about 5,000,000,000 people have used this bridge since it was opened. THK WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE The greatest suspension bridge in the world crosses the East River from Broadway (Williamsburg) Brooklyn to the Grand Street Kerry, New York. It is a steel- towered suspension-cantilever structure with a length of 7,200 feet between terminals. The towers are 886 fert high. The central span is 1,600 fret long and 188 feet above the middle of the river. The bridgeway is IIS feet wide, and carries four trolley and two cable tracks, two roadways, two footpaths, and two bicycle paths. Estimated cost, about SLU ,000,000. MECHANICS HANK 'I lu- Itrong institution, located on the corner or Court, Montague and Fulton streets, " " '"'""''■•I "' 1 ' and i- the strongest state hank on Long [gland. The building is especially noted for the perfect style of its architecture. The bank has a capital .if |600,000; deposits, $10,000,000. THE THOMAS JEFFERSON BUILDING At. Court Square near Fulton Street, is built Of brown sandstone. The style of architecture is florid but attractive. A. striking bust of Thomas Jefferson is mounted m an alcove in the facade, it is the home of the Kings County Democracy, and the Center Ol Democratic energy in the Borough of Brooklyn. i 11 31 11 -JWpipWfriUiiii frit* aa jiifiill 3 2 Ji 3 i Ik Hill 3 3 31 II JJ J i maim in aa aaii a^ n T ! 3ii3rTf t§ is H jig M Ji m THE TEMPLE BAR BUILDINc; Stands on Court Street at the northwest corner of .loralemon Street. Built of gray stone and light brick, and twelve stories high with flanking towers, it is the pre- mier skyscraper on the Brooklyn side of the Kast River. The structure was erected In 1901 and contains over two hundred offices. THE FRANKLIN TRl'ST COMPANY This nine-storied office building at the corner of Montague and Clinton streets is the home of the Franklin Trust Company, an institution with a capital of $l,om,iau, engaged in the trust and banking business. The building is a most sul>stantial structure and is amply provided with safe and storage vault facilities. THE BROOKLYN SAVINGS BANK Tin- i- .mi- oJ tin- lineal Bai Inga lank buildings in America, located ;it the corner of Pierrepont and Clinton streets. It is built of white granite with a bronze trimmed tile root. The Brooklyn Savings Bank la the oldest savings institution in the city. It has now about 70,000 depositors ami the total of its deposits is alH.ul $ W.ono.ooo. mii. , its institution in 1.VJ7, this Lank has had over Illo.iKHi depositors and more than .•?'.'u(),(HM),0(K) have been deposited. It has paid out in interest nearly 186,000,000. THK ORPHKIM THKATRK This tint' theatre building is located at the corner of Fulton Street and Rockwell Place. It is the leading house devoted to vaudeville in the city of Hrooklyn. The building is a handsome structure without, and the auditorium within is acknowledged to be unsurpassed, lor stage an a and elegant appointments, by any of the great vaudeville theatres of the country. FREE PUBLIC BATH Thin attractive limestone Btructurf; with marble panels is on Hicks Street near De (Jraw .Street. It is one of the live interior public baths Opened in 1904. It is fitted with MM Mid DOt and cohl water shower baths ami is B popular institution with the in.i--<- THE HOTEL MARGARET A beautiful modern hotel structure of ten stories located at Columbia freights and Orange Street. Conveniently arranged and tire-proof. Splendidly equipped and managed. From the sun parlor in the upper story may be obtained a wonderful panoramic view of New York City and Hay. 13TH REGIMENT ARMORY Located at Sumner, rutnani ami Jefferson avenues. This tine regimental armory building is not excelled by any in t lie country . It is the home of a famous regiment, organized in 1847, which lias served in the Civil and Spanish Wars and during several periods of domestic disorder. ■J.SD RKCISIKM' A BMOKH This substantial ami well equipped armory structure is at Bedford Avenue on the northwest corner of Pacific Street. The J:td Regiment served during the Civil War, in the draft riots of ' and 1001. The '.'3d sent many volunteers to the Spanish War. liOKOl (JII HALL, FORMERLY BROOKLYN CITY HALL Located In Oltg Hall Paris at Fulton, Joralemon and Court streets, looking south. It is of white marble in Ionic style with six columns supporting the root of the |,..rt ico, ui. I . ..in | 'i i-< - three stories ami a basement. The building contains the office of the president of the Borough and branch olliccs of finance, buildings, parks and other departments of the city government. A Court of Special Sessions sits here. In the plaza facing liorough Hall stands a statue of Needier by John Q. A. Ward. BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY The present library system wa9 formed by the consolidation, in Hn>f>, of the Brooklyn Public Library with 40,0(10 volumes and the Brooklyn Library with 110,000 volumes. The present number of volumes is about :soo,000 with an annual free circulation of about l,2.">o,t>00 copies. The Public Library has nineteen branches. The business offices are at 20 Brevort Place. HALL OK RECORDS Tbe King! County Hall of RecortlH at Court Scpiarc, Fulton and Livingston streets, takes rank with the finest municipal buildings in the country. It is a splendid White marble structure built in classic Renaissance style. The building rises three stories above the ground and cost fSTft.OOO. It contains offices Of the Commissioner Of Records, County Register, County Clci k and Surrogate. Here are preserved the archives ol all real estate transactions, judgments, wills, execu- tions, etc. One department is continually at work recopying old records. RAYMOND STREET .JAIL The Kings County Jail on Raymond Street, between Willoughby and De Kail) avenues, is a massive structure built of gray and white granite in Norman style. It IB popularly known as " The Raymond Street Jail." It is here that persons and suspects committed by the city courts are incarcerated. The Raymond Street Jail has also been used by the United States government as a place of confinement for convicted bank defaulters. MAN I 'A L TRAINING HICH SCHOOL This modern school building at Seventh Avenue between Fourth and Fifth streets, lias no superior in the world. It is a tire-proof building of modern French II. I,...-- in. . -tyl.'. and lias rhemical and physical laboratories, a printery and book bindery, forge and machine shops. Sewing rooms, kitchen for housekeeping course, and a large auditorium and a lecture room. 2BOJ0QO pupils and cost over $500,000 to build. In t he basement is a dining ro , gymnasium and a room for the storage of bicycles. The building uccom- Main Building Domestic Art Building Library PRATT INSTITUTE A schoool Of science anil industrial art founded by tlie late Charles l'ratt in 1s,s7. The build ing i- situated in Kyi-rxm Street between I)e Kalb and Willoughby avenues. The work of this institution comprises a high school course and classes for instruction in trading and ordinary arts for both sexes, including carpentry, building, metal work, dress-making, cooking, drawing, library work, etc.. and for the training of teachers. It has about :t.. r iUO students and 1)0 instructors. A new library and art building, erec ted in 1S95 on the opposite side of Ryerson Street, contains sn.noo volumes. METHODIST El'lSCOl'AL HOSPITAL At Reventlt A \ < • 1 1 1 1 r- and Sixtli Street stands tlic national hospital of the Methodist Episcopal denomination, founded in 1881. It is open to all sick without dis- tinction of race or creed. Over 2,600 patients are carjd for annually in its wards and rooms. The dispensary, established in 18!). r >, treats 18,000 poor patients yearly. Tbe equipment Ol this institution is thoroughly modern in every respect, and it bears a world-wide reputation as a comfortable home for sick or shattered humanity. The Hospital maintains a training school for nurses. ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL A splendid Roman Catholic institution, located at St. Mark and Buffalo avenues. Patients of all creeds and nations r ived who are snfTerlng fnmi -conta- gions diseases. A dispensary and nurses' training school are attached to the hospital. The othoprdic department In particular lias won buna from its extraord- inary success in the application of mechanical remedies. St. Mary's Hospital was founded in 188 - .'. It now contains two hundred and thirty heds, 8T. PH<1 BK'S MISSION HOUSE A charitable institution located at IJ1 l>e Kail) Avenue, opposite Fort Green Place. St. Phoebe's Mission was founded in 18-h.'{ by A. A. Low, as the headquarters of a moyoment to aid the sick and destitute in the crowded tenement districts, and in the many hospitals of the city. Its work has been very successful. THE BROOKLYN NAVAL BRANCH, Y. M. C. A. At li;7 Sands Street near the Navy Yard stands the substantial structure of the Naval Y. M. C. A., a gilt or Miss Helen M. Gould. This institution is run for the especial benefit of sailors and marines in the United States Navy. The building contains a restaurant . library, gymnasium, swimming-pool, sleeping apartments, etc. HKECHKR STATUE An impressive statue of Henry Ward Heeeher. the famous Brooklyn divine, stands in the plaza facing the Borough Hall. It was erected in 1801 ami is a masterpiece of the famous sculptor, John (J. A. Ward. The statue is a tribute to Mr. Beecher's in- valuable service to the world during his forty years' pastorate of Plymouth Church. PLYMOUTH C1U KCH This famous edifice, formerly known as " Beecher's Church." is situated on Orange Street between Hicks and Henry streets. It is a large brick building finished in simple style within and without, seating 2,s00 persons. Here Mr. Beecher labored for forty years and was succeeded by Dr. Lyman Abbott and later by Or. Newell I). H ill is. FAMOUS HKOOKLYN CHURCHES St. Ann's Episcopal, Clinton Street. St. Francis Xavior R C. Carroll Street. St. Augustine i,R. C.) Sixth Avenue. FAMOUS BROOKLYN CHURCHES Herman Evangelical, Schermerhorn street. Grace Methodist Episcopal, Baptist Tabernacle, Clinton street. KAMOl'S BROOKLYN CHUBCHBS St. Peter's. State Street. (irace Episcopal, Hicks Street. Church of the Redeemer, Fourth Avenue. St. .John's Episcopal, St. .John's I'lace. Reformed C'Inirrh on the Heights. I'icrrepout Street. GRANT SQUARE, BEDFORD AVKNUK Union League Club This l.i autilMl -ouure derives its name from tlx- noble bronze statue of tlx- B reat general which stands in a central location, a gift to the city from the Union J-eague Club. It represents General Grant as he appeared at the time of the Battle of the Wilderness in 1864. The Union League Club, organized 1*89, is the leading Republican social organization. The club house is one or the most attractive in the city. The club is a flourishing body with a membership of over eight hundred. CLINTON AVENl'K Which extends from Flushing Avenue to Atlantic Avenue, is one of the most beautiful and interesting of the many tine residential streets in the Borough of Brooklyn. Many of the citizens who have been prominently identified with the city's progress, and w ho have won fame in political, business, religious or philan- thropic circles live in magnificent homes upon this tine street. Clinton Avenue is esplanaded upon both sides. The private grounds along this ideal thorough- fare are always kept in superb condition. UROOKLYN N A \ V Y A RD Tli'' mam entrance to the Navy Varil is on Navy Street, opposite Sands Street. This is the principal naval station in the country and was established in 1801, The grounds embrace a total area of 144 acres with three miles of water front. Over I wo thousand men are employed here constantly. The view shows the Command- ant's ollice w itli several trophies in the shape of captured guns and mortars taken by the Navy in various wars displayed in a little park nearby. The Navy Yard is under the command id a Rear Admiral of the United States Navy. The " officers' quarters " are located in an impressive line of old-fashioned residences along the southern side of the enclosure. RECEIVING SHIT AT NAVY YARD There are two portions of the Navy Yard separated by the deep hay, called the " Wallahout." The Cob Dock Island, of nineteen acres, is in the hay. It forms an extensive park-like place where musters and drills of sailors, marines and recruits are held. On the outer edge of Cob Dock is the old frigate. " Vermont." now a receiving ship. Its great yellow hulk is used for a recruiting station, furnishing depot and home for sailors preparing for or waiting an assignment te controlled by proper adjustment of the mechanism before shooting from the tube. Torpedo boats are built to attain high speed at the expense of everything else. They do not War the reputation of being comfortable ships for sea service. In the distance may he seen the great floating crane which will lift and swing with rase a hundn-d ton w.-ight. Tlx- battleship " Massachusetts " is on the right. tfONTAUK CLI1H The beautiful building of the tfontaull Club, located at Plaza Circle, Bigbtb Avenue and Lincoln Place, is a striking architectural creation of yellow brick and terra ootta l.uilt i. H.-d \ enetian style and modelled after the CaSa d»OK>, Venice. The building was dedicated in 1801 and is the home of an organization numbering lour hundred and fifty members, instituted in 1889. The interior is decorated in exquisite taste. A ladies' dining room and a large ball room are especially admired. THE MIDYVOOI) CUT! Took its name from " Midwour." the Dutch appellation for tin- old village of Klatbtisli. The roomy ami palatial club house was formerly the resilience of tin- Clarkson family, and is surrounded by three acres of well-kept grounds. The Midwood Club was organized in 1S89 and has .1 im inber-hip of ••ver one hundred. It enjoys a w ide reputation for the select quality of its social entertainments. THK CKKMAMA CUB An organ izat i"ii wit li .1 membership of over two hundred and fifty, was organized in for tin- purpose !■! promoting social intercourse and the cultivation of the Ger- man language. Few organizations of this character have had a more successful existence. The tine building contains a large hall room and theatrical hall. THE BROOKLYN CLUB One of the oldest in Brooklyn, organized in in l*f>5, is housed in a solid Structure Of brick and brownstone at the corner of Pierrepont and Clinton streets. Many of the leading citizens who have been famous in the city's political history have been associated with this organization. Its record has been one of unvarying progress and it now has a membership of nearly live hundred. Lake at Prospect Park OCEAN PARKWAY G ATK, I'ROSl'KCT PARK At the junction of Parkside and Coney Island avenues stands the Southern Gateway of Prospect Park. The noble bronze group of rearing u 1 1 • I hcirses are sup- ported by granite pedestals. Here begins the Ocean Parkway which runs straightaway, with the exception of one turn. .1 1 >i >• >- 1 mx ami mil- hull mili-s in Itrightnn Reach, Coney Island. The Lake in Prospect Park covers an area of sLxty-one acres. In summer it a Herds tine npportunitie> lor boating and in winter 1- given up entirely to skating. Many swans and other water fowl are kept on this lake. MAIN ENTRANCE TO PROSPECT PARK Prospect Park lies upon the high ground In the rear of the city and overlooks .South Brooklyn and New York Harbor on one side and the Atlantic Shore toward roin-j Island on the other. This great park rivals Central I'ark in size and is considered by many to be the more beautiful of the two. The area of ground within it - hunts includes live hundred and sixteen acres. Near the center of the Plaza in the rear of the Memorial Arch is a fountain provided with apparatus for electri- cal ilium mat ion. .Much of the battle of Long Island in 1770— a fierce struggle between the British and Continentals— was fought upon ground now a part of Pros- pect Park. FI.ATM'SH AVKXl'K KNTKANTK. i'l.OSl'KCT PAliK At Hat bus h Avenue and Mallione Street is located one of the entrances to the great I'ai k, particularly admired lor its ai eh iteet ural simplicity. It leads • t ■ r • i tl\ to an interesting section of the enclosure where the trees and shrubbery grow in rich profusion along many delightful drives. Much of the popularity of 1'rospict Park is due to the privilege accorded to all to run about on the grass almost everywhere or to wander through the thickets at w ill. On certain lawns hundreds of young people congregate on holidays to play tennis, croquet, cricket and baseball, while thousands of lazier mortals lounge upon the cool graasy sloties. IN PROSPECT PARK The drive* in the park extend a distance ol over eight miles ami then- are also three and one-hall miles of bridle-paths, besides many well-kept pathways and ramble* for pedestrians, lined with line trees and lawns and amply supplied with drinking fountains, rest-houses, arbors, etc., extending for over fourteen miles. All the hridgework and roadways in the park are built in a most substantial manner and in thoroughly artistic style. Some of the foremost designers and landscape gardeners of America have put their best work into the development of this magniliccnt park. TEH HACK. FORT (iRKKNK I'AKK Between Myrtle anil DeKalb avenues, Raymond Street and Washington Park, are thirty aeres of elevated plateau known i~ •• Fort < , reene Park." Itn gently roll- ing surf are is handsomely laid out in walks and lawns, and is surrounded I >y a stone wall . It was the -ite ol e \ tensive earthworks during the Revolutionary War. At the corner of .M\ rtle A venue and St. Kdwai d's Street is a sii u's of tiTraees in w Inch is huilt t lie tomb ol the unfortunate patriot prisoners who died in the Kritish ship " Jersey," moored in the Fast River during the l!e\olut ionary War. At the foot of the terraces i» .1 large PI.1/.1 DREAMLAND PLAZA, CONEY ISLAND I n 'Mm I. hi. I fronts mi tin- ocean Hide of Coney Island. Here immense sums have been expended to complete one of the most costly amusement resorts in America. A tall Heacon Tower, :j75 feet, high,, dominates the architectural scheme. It is illuminated nightly by 100,000 electric lights and can be seen for .TO miles. No promenade in Dreamland is less than .71 feet wide and the enclosure will accommodate 2.71,000 people. LAliOON AT NKiHT. LUNA I'AKK, CONKY ISI.AXH At night tliis magic city l>y the sea is brilliantly lighted l>y more than T.Vl.OOO electric lamps. The grounds are as light as noonday and tin- BpeOtMOlM illumuia- tion of the unique architecture all'ords a scene of grandeur and beauty. Here the possibilities of electric lighting have received theil fullest derelopmeat. Whether upon slender shaft, minaret or pagoda, they gleam and twinkle with the bright lamps worked into every imaginable design in a profusion both lavish and artistic. It is hard to say whether Luna Park is more beautiful by day or when sparkling with a myriad of electric lights. I — SKY LINE AND HIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF CONEY ISLAND Tin- sky line nl Coney Island lias been transformed during the last lew years and would hardly he recognized now* by one familiar with its appearance ten years ago. A bird's-eye view presents a bewildering mass of towers, pinnacles, cupolas, etc., of the various attractions. The new Coney Island resembles one of the great World's Fairs in the magnitude of its artistically designed structures and in the lavish decoration of the amusement palaces which adorn its streets. It is a gorgeous monument of what man can do with wood and iron or stone and stair, charmingly picturesque by day and a brilliant wonderland of electric illumina- tion by night. QA«C<