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THE SOCIETY OF 
 ICONOPH1LES OF 
 NEW YORK 
 
 101 IMPRESSIONS OF THESE ENGRAVINGS HAVE 
 BEEN TAKEN AND THE PLATES DESTROYED 
 ALL IMPRESSIONS ARE ON JAPAN PAPER 
 I 1 BEING ARTIST S PROOFS BEFORE LETTER 
 
this book there have been made eighty- 
 seven copies on Imperial Japan paper 
 and six copies on American hand-made 
 paper, the printing of which was 
 completed in the month of January 
 
 MDCCCXCVII. 
 
THE JOURNEY OF 
 THE ICONOPHILES 
 
THE JOURNEY OF 
 THE ICONOPHILES 
 
 AROUND NEW YORK IN SEARCH OF 
 THE HISTORICAL AND PICTURESQUE 
 
 PRINTED AT NEW YORK 
 
 IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, EIGHTEEN 
 HUNDRED AND NINETY-SEVEN . . . AND 
 OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE ISLAND OF 
 MANHATTAN BY HENDRIK HUDSON THE 
 TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-EIGHTH 
 
COPYRIGHT, 1897, BY 
 WILLIAM LORING ANDREWS 
 
A DESCRIPTION OF 
 THE FRONTISPIECE 
 
 THE "AMBUSCADE" PICTURE OF 
 THE BATTERY 
 
 THE picture I have selected for a frontis- 
 piece is engraved on copper by Mr. 
 E. D. French, after a scarce print engraved 
 by S. Hill,* from a drawing made on the 
 spot in 1793 by Governor John Drayton, of 
 South Carolina, as he states in his " Tour in 
 the Northern and Eastern States," published 
 at Charleston in 1794. 
 
 " At the lower end of Broadway is the 
 Battery and public parade of which I have al- 
 ready given you some account ; and I now 
 present you with a sketch of it, as seen from 
 this spot. While 1 was taking it the Am- 
 buscade sailed by, having a liberty cap on the 
 fore-top-gallant mast-head. I drew it with 
 
 * Note. The engraver of the prints in the Massachusetts 
 Magazine. 
 
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 pleasure, hoping that it would be an ornament 
 to the piece." 
 
 To the best of my knowledge this picture 
 is the earliest view of the Battery from the 
 land side, and the only print that shows this 
 point of the island except from the water, as 
 it appeared after the removal of Fort George 
 and before the erection of the present Castle 
 Garden,* u e.> between the years 1790 and 
 1810. 
 
 " L'Ambuscade," which sailed by at so 
 opportune a moment for Governor Drayton, 
 was the French Frigate which brought Min- 
 ister Genet to America. It was afterwards 
 stationed for a time off the port of New York, 
 and on the 30th of July, 1793, had an en- 
 counter off Sandy Hook with the British 
 frigate " Boston," in which the latter was dis- 
 abled, but escaped capture and bore away for 
 Halifax. 
 
 If the date of this picture were not known 
 
 * Note. First known as the S. W. Battery, afterwards named 
 Castle Clinton. 
 
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 it could be fixed approximately by the flag 
 which floats from the staff upon the stone 
 tower. This displays the thirteen stars ar- 
 ranged in a circle, the form adopted in 1777 
 and not altered until 1795 when it was changed 
 to fifteen stars placed in three parallel lines. 
 This is the flag-staff to which Diedrich Knick- 
 erbocker refers in his " History of New York" 
 and likens to the handle to a gigantic churn. 
 
 W. L. A. 
 
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 SOCIETY OF THE 
 ICONOPHILES 
 
 st. Paul's chapel 
 ii 
 
 the chancel of st. paul's chapel 
 
 m 
 
 FRAUNCES's TAVERN 
 
 IV 
 
 THE ROGER MORRIS HOUSE 
 v 
 
 THE HAMILTON GRANGE 
 
 VI 
 
 ST. mark's CHURCH 
 vii 
 
 THE CITY HALL 
 
 VIII 
 
 THE HALLS OF JUSTICE "THE TOMBS " 
 
 IX 
 
 THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN 
 
 x 
 
 st. John's chapel 
 
 XI 
 
 THE FORTY-SECOND STREET DISTRIBUTING 
 RESERVOIR 
 
 XII 
 
 THE BOWLING GREEN 
 
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 IT is quite evident, we think, that the 
 worthy citizens of this Metropolis of 
 sixty years ago gloried in the past, 
 present and future of their city to an 
 extent and after a fashion unknown to their de- 
 scendants of to-day. This might perhaps 
 be considered indicative of a provincial state 
 of society, the members of which, not hav- 
 ing enjoyed to any large extent the inesti- 
 mable advantages of foreign travel (so com- 
 mon a means of culture in these days of " per- 
 sonally conducted tours" to every known spot 
 on earth), were altogether incompetent judges 
 of municipal greatness and grandeur. 
 
 Again, it is conceivable that the men who 
 met on 'Change in swallow-tailed coats, and 
 whose afternoon promenade was confined to 
 
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 that stretch of Broadway which extended from 
 Chambers Street to the Battery, were not quite 
 so intent upon money getting as succeeding 
 generations more unreservedly devoted to the 
 pursuit of wealth have grown to be ; and that 
 they allowed themselves leisure for the quiet 
 contemplation and enjoyment of the sur- 
 roundings of the simpler manner of life in the 
 primitive times in which their lot was cast 
 when a hundred thousand of our units of value 
 made their possessor passing rich ; all of 
 which would conduce to a self-laudatory as well 
 as to a calm and philosophical frame of mind. 
 We have also to remember the fact that down to 
 the outbreak of the Civil war, New York was in 
 sooth a city of homes, occupied by their own- 
 ers the greater part of the twelvemonth, if not 
 all the year round, save when an epidemic or 
 cholera, smallpox, or yellow fever drove them 
 forth to some quiet country place necessarily 
 near at hand on account of the limited travel- 
 ing facilities that then existed. In those anti- 
 
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 bellum times no Newport with its princely 
 seaside villas, no Lenox with palatial man- 
 sions crowning its breezy hill tops divided 
 the affections and the time of " Gotham's " 
 " best society," while now New York has its 
 " season " as fixed and circumscribed as that of 
 London, Paris, or any other gay capital city 
 through which the votaries of fashion must 
 whirl at the appointed time or not at all. 
 
 We indulge in the by no means univer- 
 sally accepted belief that our city in the first 
 half of the century was decidedly more at- 
 tractive architecturally than it subsequently 
 became after it had passed into the shadow 
 of the " brown-stone age" The high-peaked, 
 tiled roofs and gable ends, with stepping- 
 stones to facilitate the descent of Kris Kringle 
 with his toy-laden pack, had not all disap- 
 peared ; and the buildings that were gradually 
 supplanting these remnants of the old Dutch 
 regime were of the so-called Colonial order, 
 the greatest charm of which was its simplicity 
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 and unpretentiousness. They were constructed 
 of the best of honest red brick — set off in 
 the better class of dwellings by marble, granite 
 or brown-stone trimmings ; and presented to 
 the gaze of the passer-by the Corinthian pil- 
 lared doorways, graceful fanlights, and wrought 
 iron newel posts for which as models of con- 
 struction we still seek, if haply we may find 
 them, in some now obscure quarter of the town 
 long ago abandoned by both wealth and re- 
 spectability. 
 
 Anon there came a time when, lack a day ! 
 a stone quarry was unearthed up in the valleys 
 of a neighboring state, and to the manufac- 
 ture of wooden bowls, the concoction of ap- 
 ple sweetmeats, and the cultivation of Weath- 
 ersfield onions, the people of that thriving com- 
 monwealth added a new and lucrative industry. 
 Straightway an avalanche of free-stone de- 
 scended upon this defenceless town and for 
 more than half a century continued its head- 
 long rush. When Macaulay's far-famed New 
 
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 Zealander stops here on his way to visit the 
 ruins of London Bridge, and wandering amid 
 the debris of New York notes the profusion 
 of this non-indigenous stone, we know not 
 how he will account for the phenomenon ex- 
 cept by ascribing it to a glacial moraine. 
 
 Whoever was responsible for the introduc- 
 tion into this city of the brown-stone of Con- 
 necticut, it certainly met with immediate and 
 general favor and speedily became the ma- 
 terial for the exterior front wall of a house, 
 which no family of wealth and standing in the 
 community could afford to be without — not 
 because of its beauty of color or texture, but for 
 the apparently sufficient reason that it was 
 more costly than the durable red Philadelphia 
 brick heretofore in vogue. The sounding 
 phrase " high-stoop brown-stone front," be- 
 came expressive of all that was choicest and 
 most to be coveted in a " house in town." 
 Architect and builder alike seemed intent upon 
 demonstrating the variety of inartistic forms 
 
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 into which this somber-looking and perish- 
 able stone could be contorted, and the amount 
 of meaningless ornament it would bear with- 
 out chipping under exposure to the elements 
 before the building could be sold. One wan- 
 dered through weary leagues of streets (miles 
 of which are still unchanged, except that the 
 walls which line them display various stages 
 of disintegration and sundry ingenious styles 
 of patch-work) with brown-stone fronts to the 
 right of him, brown-stone fronts to the left of 
 him. When for relief from this dull and in- 
 sipid uniformity we turned to the green fields 
 of the adjacent country side, it was to be con- 
 fronted with an equally distressing example of 
 false taste — the suburban villa of the " Hudson 
 River School of Architecture," in the super- 
 ornamentation of which the scroll-saw played 
 so prominent and indispensable a part. 
 
 Slowly during the last two decades we have 
 been emerging from this Cimmerian architec- 
 tural darkness, and have begun to appreciate 
 
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 the force of what we are venturesome enough 
 to hold to be two fundamental and axiomatic 
 truths — namely, that the house simple may 
 still be the house beautiful, and that we can- 
 not with impunity play with the delicately 
 edged tools of the Fine Arts. There is, in our 
 firm belief, no midway halting place between 
 the severely plain application and the highest 
 possible expression of the arts we elect to em- 
 ploy in the building of our homes. Cheap 
 art is a misnomer. It is sham art — a delusion 
 and a snare. Therefore, unless cost is alto- 
 gether a secondary consideration, and not then 
 unless the designing and construction of our 
 dwelling can be placed under the guidance of 
 a master hand, the simpler we make our abid- 
 ing place the more heart's ease and peace of 
 mind will be our portion when we come to rest 
 under the vine and fig tree our hands have 
 planted. 
 
 That New York fifty years ago was as 
 well paved, well sewered, well lighted, or in 
 
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 many respects so desirable a city to dwell in 
 as it is to-day, it would be absurd to claim ; but 
 our contention that its streets offered a more 
 attractive field for the artist then than now, is, 
 we think, supported by the fact that when we 
 moderns sally forth in search of the pictur- 
 esque we do not seem to find it short of the 
 portals of a building of that earlier period. 
 Twenty years hence, when the structures now 
 going up in our midst shall have felt the sof- 
 tening touch of time, New York will furnish 
 better material for the artist's pencil. Just 
 now it is all too new and spic and span ; but 
 to borrow the phraseology while we twist the 
 meaning of one of the " bon mots " of the 
 great but erratic Whistler, " Art is creeping 
 up " among us. 
 
 In 1 83 1 G, M. Bourne published a col- 
 lection of views in New York, thirty-five in 
 number, beautifully drawn by C. Burton and 
 artistically engraved by Hatch & Smillie. The 
 India paper proofs of these engravings form 
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 the most charming series of little pictures of 
 New York that exist. The original drawings 
 for these plates by Burton are in the N. Y. 
 Historical Society, presented to that institu- 
 tion by the late Stephen Whitney Phcenix. 
 
 In the same year, 1831, Peabody & Co. J 
 issued a series similar to the above, dedicated 
 by permission to Philip Hone, Esq., consist- 
 ing of thirty-two views engraved by Dick, 
 Barnard, Fossette, Archer and others, after 
 drawings by the architect Dakin. This liter- 
 ary and artistic venture was heartily endorsed 
 and highly commended by the press of the 
 day. The following criticism, which would 
 apply with equal force and justice to Bourne's 
 work, is taken from the " New York Evening 
 Journal " : 
 
 " The execution of this beautiful specimen 
 of American skill reflects the highest credit 
 upon the artists by whom the views were 
 drav/n and engraved, upon the printer, upon 
 the author of the descriptive sketches accom- 
 
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 panying the plates, and all others concerned. 
 It is proposed to continue the publication in 
 numbers at brief intervals, and at a rate so 
 low (37^ cents each number containing four 
 plates) that the publishers cannot be adequately 
 remunerated without an extensive sale, which 
 we hope for the honor of the city they will 
 readily obtain." 
 
 These publications of Bourne and Pea- 
 body were succeeded in 1 847 by a series of thir- 
 teen plates, published by C. B. & F. B. Nich- 
 ols, 6 in two parts, containing six views each, 
 in addition to the frontispiece in Part I. It 
 is possible that there may have been further 
 issues of this publication, but I have not en- 
 countered them. Doubtless a continuation 
 of the series was intended, but the venture ap- 
 parently failed to receive adequate support. 
 
 A number of the views published by C. 
 B. &. F. B. Nichols — to which half a dozen 
 new ones were added — were used by Prall, 
 Lewis & Co. in a book published by them in 
 
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 1 85 1 , entitled, " New York : Past, Present and 
 Future." 7 This brought about a confusing 
 state of affairs in the print market and laid 
 another pitfall for the unwary feet of the col- 
 lector. Now, when he chances upon these 
 engravings apart from the books to which they 
 belong, he finds himself in a quandary as to 
 whether they are of the true vintage of 1 847 
 or only the adulterated article furnished by 
 the firm of Prall, Lewis & Co. 
 
 In 1835, J- Disturnell began the publica- 
 tion of a series of views entitled the " Pictur- 
 esque Beauties of the Hudson River and its 
 Vicinity," from original drawings engraved on 
 steel by distinguished artists, with descriptions 
 by Samuel L. Knapp. Whether the voyage 
 was originally planned to extend up the Hud- 
 son to Albany or not we do not know, but 
 that the craft which bore these " distinguished 
 artists " never dropped out of sight of the 
 Palisades we do know, much to our regret. 
 Two numbers only of this publication ever 
 
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 appeared, so far as I have been able to dis- 
 cover. Each number contained three full-page 
 engravings (7^x4% inches in size), besides 
 the frontispiece, which appeared in part I. 
 The subjects, all of which furnish what would 
 be designated by the New York collector as 
 useful prints, are as follows : Bay and Har- 
 bor of New York, Hoboken, Hellgate, New 
 York from Staten Island, The Narrows, Wee- 
 hawken,The Palisades (vignette-frontispiece). 
 These prints are all well executed and most 
 of them are very charming examples of the 
 art of steel engraving. 
 
 Along in the '30s Disturnell published a 
 number of little guide books under the vari- 
 ous titles of the " Travelers Guide," " New 
 York as it is," " The Picturesque Tourist," 
 and the " Pocket Annual." The plates en- 
 graved for these publications were resurrected 
 forty years later and employed in the illustra- 
 tion of " New York as it is and as it was " — 
 a work published by D. Van Nostrand in 
 
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 1876. Still more recently these way-worn 
 veterans were again drafted into service, and im- 
 pressions from the plates (taken on " French 
 India paper ") were issued in sets, comprising 
 ten different views and perhaps more, which 
 have not come under my notice. Still another 
 publication of Disturnell's, interesting to New 
 York collectors, but one which takes us a little 
 out of our present beat, was a Panorama of the 
 Hudson River from New York to Albany in 
 1846, drawn by William Wade, carefully en- 
 graved on copper and colored by hand — the 
 good, honest, old-fashioned way of doing 
 things. 
 
 Blunt's "Stranger's Guide," 4 18 17, fur- 
 nishes six, and Goodrich's " Picture of New 
 York," 5 1828, seven small views in our city 
 streets, some of which are not included in any 
 other series. 
 
 The " New York Mirror," 1 that popular 
 journal of the early part of this century, styled 
 by one of its editors, perhaps half in earnest 
 
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 and half in jest, " The organ of the Upper 
 Ten," which numbered among the contributors 
 to its columns all the great literary lights of the 
 day, supplied its patrons with a number of the 
 best engraved and most interesting pictures of 
 contemporary New York that are to be found. 
 Many of them are from drawings by the well- 
 known architect, A. J. Davis, whose death at 
 an advanced age occurred not many years 
 since. Hinton's History of the United States, 
 1830, contains a few engravings (quarto) of 
 our prominent buildings, among them Colum- 
 bia College, The Merchants' Exchange and 
 Colman's Literary rooms at the corner of 
 Broadway and Park Place (a building erected 
 in 1792 by the General Society of Mechanics 
 and Tradesmen, which, I believe, still owns 
 this valuable property). W. H. Bartlett/s 
 "American Scenery," London, 1840, includes 
 a few views in and around New York ; and 
 a New York illustration may be found here 
 and there in one of those little volumes pop- 
 
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 ular fifty years ago as gift books and souvenirs 
 — such as " The Talisman," " The Token " 
 and " The Keepsake" — a class of books now 
 coming into demand with collectors for the 
 examples of early American art they contain 
 and also as representatives of a style of book- 
 making (copied after the English " Annual " 
 of the same period) that went out of fashion 
 so long since that it has become an antiquated 
 and almost forgotten type of the art. 
 
 Among miscellaneous prints illustrating 
 New York fifty years or more ago, we select 
 the following as noteworthy on account of 
 their rarity and the excellence of the engrav- 
 ing : " Astor House, Broadway, New York," 
 and " Old Methodist Church on John Street," 
 drawn and engraved by A.Dick ; " Weehawken 
 Bluffs," engraved by Barnard, after a sketch by 
 Davis ; " Trinity (old) Church, New York," 
 (size 1 1 x8 ) drawn and engraved by J. A. 
 Rolph. This is the most beautiful as well as 
 the rarest of all the engravings of the second 
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 edifice (built 1788 and taken down 1839) 
 erected by the Trinity Church Corporation. 
 
 Those who are unfamiliar with the class of 
 prints we have enumerated in the foregoing 
 pages will be surprised to find upon examina- 
 tion how really artistic most of them are and 
 what adepts were the men (many of them 
 painter-engravers like Asher B. Durand) by 
 whom these plates were executed. In point 
 of fact the work of this coterie of artists marks 
 the culmination of the art of line engraving in 
 this country. 
 
 We are thus, it will be seen, well supplied 
 with line engravings representing our street 
 architecture as it existed between the years 
 1 81 5 and 1850 — the field was a limited one 
 and is quite covered by the publications we 
 have mentioned ; — but he who seeks for pic- 
 tures of New York executed since the latter 
 date will find comparatively few copper or steel 
 plate engravings save those made for frontis- 
 pieces or advertising purposes, and occasion- 
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 ally a bank note engraver's proof which con- 
 tains a local view. No series as complete or 
 artistic as those of Bourne and Peabody has 
 made its appearance since they were issued. 
 The art of lithography has partially filled this 
 gap ; and D. T. Valentine, who employed this 
 process almost exclusively for the full-page 
 illustrations in his Manual, has bequeathed us 
 a quantity of views, both ancient and modern, 
 in and around New York, which we are glad 
 to have in default of better. The etcher's 
 needle also essayed for a time the work of 
 the graver. Neither was the wood engraver 
 standing by with folded hands ; but finally 
 these ancient and honorable crafts one and all 
 succumbed to the pressure exerted by the 
 camera with its numerous progeny of pro- 
 cesses. Now we have a surfeit of pictures pen- 
 ciled by the sun — good, bad and indifferent ; 
 but to whatever degree of excellence pho- 
 tography may attain, its limitations we claim 
 are as defined and immutable as those of any 
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 other mechanical art. That the most highly 
 perfected photographic process yet invented 
 is capable of producing a work of art in the 
 high sense of the term, we are not willing to 
 admit ; nor will it be until some ray has been 
 discovered more weird and potent than that of 
 Rontgen, which can transmit to the sensitized 
 plate in its dark recess the creative mental 
 faculty itself as well as the image of the thing 
 created. Until that day dawns the camera 
 will continue to perform its appointed tasks 
 like the obedient but senseless automaton that 
 it is, and nothing more. 
 
 It was in emulation of and to supplement, 
 as far as might be, these publications of Bourne 
 and Peabody that the Society of Iconophiles 
 was founded in 1 895 and set itself to the pleas- 
 ant task of picturing New York as it is in the 
 closing years of the century, while incidentally 
 it hoped to revive an interest in and to en- 
 courage the practice of the long neglected art 
 of pure line engraving. 
 
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 The Society has issued, up to the present 
 time, twelve plates of subjects selected for 
 their historical and, as far as possible, pictorial 
 value. It began with time-honored St. Paul's, 
 the oldest of our ecclesiastical edifices (opened 
 for divine worship on the 30th of October, 
 1766). The many earlier views of this build- 
 ing, beginning with the first and rarest — the 
 one published in the New York Magazine in 
 1 795 — have been taken, almost without excep- 
 tion, from the Broadway side. This of the 
 Iconophiles is a view from Vesey street and 
 shows the front of the chapel (facing the North 
 river) and a portion of the graveyard where, 
 undisturbed by the countless throngs that 
 daily hurry past the enclosure, St. Paul's old 
 parishioners sleep on, under the " easie earth 
 that covers them." It is a winter's landscape 
 and the leafless branches of the trees permitted 
 our artist to depict the architectural details of 
 the fine old structure and the graceful spire 
 which we have lived to see far overtopped by 
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 a building devoted to secular uses. St. Paul's 
 was designed by a Mr. McBean, a Scotchman, 
 who is said to have been a pupil of James 
 Gibbs, the architect of the London Church of 
 St. Martins-in-the-Fields, which took the 
 place of the structure of the same name 
 wherein Archbishop Tenison once preached 
 a " notable sermon in praise of Ellen Gwyn." 
 St. Paul's resembles in some of its exterior 
 and interior features St. Martins-in-the- 
 Fields, which is considered one of the finest 
 of the London churches of its age and class. 
 
 Publication No. 2 opens the doors of this 
 ancient and venerable edifice and affords a view 
 of the chancel with the pulpit standing on the 
 north side of the choir to which it had been 
 removed in 1879, as note d in the short de- 
 scription of the plates, printed on the wrapper 
 which accompanies each issue of the Society. 
 Other changes that have taken place from 
 time to time in the interior of St. Paul's are 
 noted by Dr. Morgan Dix in his " Historical 
 
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 Recollections of the Chapel," who also re- 
 counts the number of times that the building 
 has been threatened with destruction by fire. 
 First in 1776 in the great fire, which consumed 
 about one-eighth of the city, including Trinity 
 Church. Second, in 1799, by a fire in Vesey 
 street, during which the steeple of St. Paul's 
 was in flames. Third and fourth, in 1820 
 and 1 848, when for the first and second times 
 Park Theatre, in Park Row, was burnt ; and 
 fifth, in 1865 at the burning of Barnum's 
 American Museum, which then occupied the 
 present site of the new twenty-five storied St. 
 Paul Building (307 feet high) on the corner 
 of Broadway and Ann street. With so many 
 towering fire-proof structures in the neighbor- 
 hood to protect it, the custodians of St. Paul's 
 should sleep more quietly o'nights, and enjoy 
 a feeling of security from attacks of the fire 
 fiend which heretofore they have not known. 
 Publication No. 3 is a view of Fraunces's 
 Tavern on the south-east corner of Broad and 
 
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 Pearl streets. So much has been said and 
 written of late years concerning this building 
 and it has been brought into such prominence 
 by " Sons of the Revolution " and other pa- 
 triotic bodies, that the very gamins of the 
 street should be familiar with the succession of 
 historical events that have made the tavern, 
 kept by Samuel Fraunces, ex-steward in the 
 household of President Washington, famous 
 for all time. 
 
 Publication No. 4. — For the subject of 
 this plate the artist to the Society, Mr. E. 
 Davis French, traversed nearly the entire 
 length of the island until he entered the gate- 
 way to the Roger Morris House. This relict 
 of pre-revolutionary times is described as fol- 
 lows in the brief account prefixed to the plate : 
 
 " The Roger Morris House, Washington 
 Heights, near 1 6 1 st Street." " Built about the 
 middle of the last century by Colonel Roger 
 Morris, aide-de-camp to General Braddock 
 in the expedition against Fort Duquesne." 
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 In 1776 it was the headquarters of General 
 Washington, and after the capture of the is- 
 land by the British was occupied by the Hes- 
 sian General Kniphausen. In 1779 the 
 property was sold under the act of attainder, 
 passed that year by the legislature of the State 
 of New York, and passed out of the posses- 
 sion of the family. After several changes of 
 ownership the house became the property of 
 Stephen Jumel, a French wine merchant 
 engaged in business in New York, by whom 
 it was devised to his widow, who afterward 
 became the wife of Aaron Burr. It is now 
 the residence of General Ferdinand P. Earle. 
 
 Publication No. 5. — The material for the 
 next issue of the Society was found in the 
 neighborhood of the Roger Morris House. 
 Hamilton Grange, depicted in this plate, was 
 built by Alexander Hamilton about 1802. 
 Only two years later, July 11, 1 804, New 
 York was startled by the appearance of a bul- 
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 shot that morning in a duel by Colonel Burr, 
 and was said to be mortally wounded. His 
 death occurred the next afternoon at 2 o'clock. 
 The " Grange " remained in possession of the 
 family until 1845. It has lately been moved 
 a couple of blocks away from its original site, 
 and now stands at the corner of 141st street 
 and Convent avenue. It is at present oc- 
 cupied as the Rectory of St. Luke's Protest- 
 ant Episcopal Church. 
 
 Publication No. 6 compels us to retrace 
 our steps and turn our faces eastward to St. 
 Mark's Church in the Bowery (Second ave. 
 10th and 11th streets). Next to St. Paul's 
 this is the oldest church edifice in the city. 
 It was built during the years 1 795-1 799, on 
 ground which formed a part of the " bou- 
 wery " or farm purchased by Governor Stuy- 
 vesant in 1651 for 6,400 guilders, or ^1,066, 
 and was donated to the Episcopal Church in 
 1793 by his great grandson, Petrus Stuyve- 
 sant. The following is copied from Dr. An- 
 thon's Parish Annals of St. Mark's Church : 
 
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 " Governor Stuyvesant arrived in this 
 country in 1647. He soon afterwards pur- 
 chased a farm which became distinctively 
 known as the ( Bouwery ' (the Dutch word for 
 farm). The Bowery, the name of one of 
 the principal streets in our city, is derived from 
 it. For the accommodation of his family and 
 the few residents in the neighborhood, the 
 Governor, at his own expense, erected an 
 edifice for worship (according to the rites of 
 the Dutch Reformed Church) on his farm, on 
 the very site where St. Mark's Church now 
 stands." 
 
 Publication No. 7 is a View of the City 
 Hall in the Park. Because of its importance 
 as a municipal building as well as on account 
 of its satisfactory character as a piece of arch- 
 itecture, more pictures have been made of the 
 City Hall than of any other of our public 
 edifices. Nevertheless, the Iconophiles de- 
 cided to include it in their series, doubtless 
 upon the ground that a collection of " Views 
 in New York " without the City Hall would 
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 resemble too much the play of Hamlet with 
 Hamlet left out. Every good citizen is pre- 
 sumed to know that the corner stone of the 
 City Hall was laid May 26th, 1803, and that 
 it was finished in 1 812, at a cost of half a 
 million dollars. In the past ten or twelve 
 years this building has been repeatedly threat- 
 ened with demolition by our sage and aes- 
 thetic city fathers ; but public opinion has 
 thus far proved sufficiently potent to avert 
 this fate, and the building has not changed in 
 outward appearance since in the year 18 19 
 Fitz-Greene Halleck entertained his fellow 
 townsmen with this poetical description of the 
 statue which then as now surmounted the dome 
 of the City Hall : 
 
 " And on our City Hall a 'Justice stands — 
 
 A neater form was never made of board — 
 Holding majestically in her hands 
 
 A pair of steelyards and a wooden sword, 
 And looking down with complacent civility 
 Emblem of dignity and durability" 
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 Publication No. 8 is a u Prospect " of that 
 gloomy pile of buildings, seldom if ever re- 
 ferred to by its proper name, " The Halls of 
 Justice," but known in common parlance as 
 " The Tombs" — an appropriate title, as it in- 
 dicates its architectural origin, " An Egyptian 
 tomb," as well as the melancholy uses for 
 which it was constructed — upon made ground 
 in about the center of what was once the old 
 Collect pond. It came to the ears of the 
 Iconophiles that the removal of this building 
 was in contemplation ; and so they hastened to 
 make a pictorial note of a structure which is 
 of more profound interest to certain classes 
 in this community than any other building 
 belonging to the Municipality, of which un- 
 happily they constitute neither useful nor or- 
 namental members. 
 
 Publication No. 9 is a picture of the Na- 
 tional Academy of Design. This building, 
 copied after the Doges' Palace in Venice, has 
 stood in the midst of its incongruous sur- 
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 roundings on the northwest corner of Twenty- 
 third street and Fourth avenue for more than 
 thirty years, with the prosaic tinkle of street- 
 car bells echoing through its vaulted arches 
 in lieu of the musical cry of the gay gondolier. 
 It is an unfinished edifice, as the decoration 
 of the exterior has never been completed, nor 
 ever will be, as the days of this example of 
 the " revived gothic order " of architecture 
 are numbered, and the building will shortly 
 be razed to the ground by its new proprietors, 
 the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 
 of New York. 
 
 Publication No. 10 presents a view of St. 
 John's Chapel. This building was erected 
 during the years 1803 to 1807 at a cost of 
 about $200,000. It stands on the east side 
 of Varick street, between Beach and Laight, 
 and at the time of its erection fronted a park 
 known as Hudson Square, later as St. John's 
 Park, 8 a pleasant enclosure shaded with fine old 
 trees — the ground having at one time formed 
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 part of the Anneke Jans Bogardus estate. 
 This park was sold early in 1 869 to the Hud- 
 son River Railroad Company, and a freight 
 station took the place of one of the breathing 
 spots with which lower New York was then, 
 as it is still, all too scantily supplied — a pub- 
 lic need that we have recognized and attempted 
 to supply only within the past few years. It 
 is a satisfaction to feel that the more enlight- 
 ened sense of this community would not now 
 regard with equanimity the blotting out of a 
 pleasure ground like this from the map of 
 New York City. Let us hope that the time 
 may come when public opinion will demand 
 the restoration of St. John's Park, and that 
 once again through the doorways of the old 
 church will float the sound of rustling leaves 
 and the twittering of birds instead of the roar 
 of wheels and the noise of escaping steam. 
 Meanwhile the people of the neighborhood 
 should enter a protest against the unneces- 
 sarily unseemly appearance of the walls of this 
 
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 huge, ungainly structure, covered with post 
 bills of every description from end to end. 
 
 Publication No. 1 1 is a view of the Fifth 
 avenue front of the Murray Hill Distribut- 
 ing Reservoir. The capacity of this reservoir, 
 which now plays so insignificant a part in the 
 city's system of water works, is 20,000,000 
 gallons. As an interesting bit of ancient his- 
 tory in this connection we may recall the pro- 
 posal made by Christopher Colles immediately 
 prior to the Revolutionary war to build a reser- 
 voir on open ground near the new jail (Pearl 
 and White streets), with a capacity of 1,200,- 
 000 gallons, for furnishing the City of New 
 York with a constant supply of fresh water. 
 Mr. Colles enters into the following calcula- 
 tion, " shewing the utility of his design," which 
 we quote because it helps us to realize how 
 little more than a good-sized village our city 
 was so late as 1774 : 
 
 " It is supposed that there are 3,000 
 Houses that receive Water from the Tea 
 
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 Water Men ; that at the least, upon an Aver- 
 age, each House pays One Penny Half-penny 
 per day for this Water ; this makes the Sum 
 of X^>75° P er Annum, which is 45s for each 
 Houfe per Annum. According to the Design 
 proposed, there will be paid £6,000 per an- 
 num for four Years, which is 40s each House : 
 By which it appears that even while the Works 
 are paying for, there will be a saving made to 
 the City of j£j 50 per annum, and after the 
 said four Yeares, as the Tax will not be more 
 than 1 os per annum to be paid by each houfe, 
 it is evident that there will be saved to the 
 city, the yearly sum of ,£5,250 for ever." 
 The Revolutionary War interfered with the 
 consideration of this project. 
 
 Wm. L. Stone, in his History of New 
 York City, published in 1 872, supplies a de- 
 scription of the Murray Hill Reservoir, an 
 abstract from which will spare us the neces- 
 sity of making a new survey, and answer our 
 present purpose quite as well if not better. 
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 " Its walls are of dark granite and average 
 44 feet in height above the adjacent streets. 
 Upon the top of the wall, which is reached 
 by massive steps, is a broad promenade from 
 which may be obtained a fine view of the sur- 
 rounding country. Perfect security for the vis- 
 itor is obtained by a strong battlement of gran- 
 ite (and an iron railing) on the outside, and 
 an iron fence on the inside nearest the water. 
 The water was first let into this building on 
 the 4th of July, 1842 (Mr. Haswell says the 
 5th), and on the 14th of the following October 
 distributed by means of iron pipes through- 
 out the city." 
 
 The public celebration, which was held 
 upon this occasion, rivaled in its pageantry 
 the great "jubilee," which upon the comple- 
 tion of the Erie Canal in 1825 (October 26th) 
 " married this city to the mighty west," or the 
 grand procession which, in 1788, celebrated 
 the adoption of the Federal Constitution. 
 
 The view from the promenade is not now 
 so extensive as above described, by reason of 
 
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 the tall buildings erected in the neighborhood 
 in recent years, and a luxuriant growth of the 
 ampelopsis vine hides and beautifies during 
 the greater part of the year most of the som- 
 ber granite walls of the structure. The build- 
 ing will probably ere long be removed, and the 
 ground become the site (unexcelled in New 
 York for such a purpose) of the New York 
 Public Library — that combination latelv 
 effected between the Astor, Lenox and Til- 
 den foundations, the formation of which is so 
 characteristic of the tendency toward concen- 
 tration of effort which is the drift of the times. 
 
 Publication No. 12 and last, " The Bowl- 
 ing Green." — This small circular park, orig- 
 inally used as a ball and quoit ground by the 
 good folk of New Amsterdam, was laid out in 
 1733, when by a city ordinance it was " Re- 
 solved that the Corporation lease a piece of 
 ground lying at the lower end of Broadway 
 fronting the Fort, under the annual rent of a 
 peppercorn." 
 
 On May 17th, 1770, an equestrian statue 
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 of George III. was ordered to be erected in 
 the " Bowling Green." This statue was cut 
 off in the very flower of its youth. On July 
 8th, 1776, amid shouts and the ringing of 
 liberty bells, it was destroyed by the populace, 
 and the lead of which it was composed cast 
 into bullets. This is a thrice-told tale and, 
 like a number which are narrated in connection 
 with Fraunces's Tavern, is rather withered 
 by age and battered by repetition. These 
 stock stories of old New York are standard 
 goods, kept constantly on hand and must be 
 expected to become occasionally a little stale 
 and shop-worn. The only statue that has been 
 admitted within this enclosure since the sum- 
 mary ejectment of the leaden effigy of King 
 George is one of Abraham de Peyster, re- 
 cently erected in the southwest corner of the 
 little park. 
 
 The block of seven houses seen in the 
 picture fronting the Bowling Green, was 
 erected upon the site of the old Fort and 
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 Government House, 9 which latter building 
 was removed in 1815. For many years these 
 houses ranked among the finest and most 
 fashionable private residences in the city ; 
 but they have long been given over to busi- 
 ness purposes. They are at present occupied 
 mostly by the offices of various Transatlantic 
 steamship companies, and of foreign consu- 
 lates. On the right of the picture we have 
 a glimpse of the Battery and the waters of 
 the Bay. 
 
 Here at the southernmost point of the is- 
 land the Iconophiles break their journey. The 
 Society has decreed that the twelve plates now 
 issued shall constitute a series. The first stage 
 of its antiquarian and sentimental journey 
 therefore is completed, so we close the leaves 
 of our sketch-book and wend our way home- 
 wards over the " Battery walk," that " pleas- 
 ant promenade," still the " ornament and the 
 pride of the island of Manna-hatta " as it has 
 ever been since the day when the corpulent 
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 Dutch burgher first peacefully puffed his 
 long-stemmed pipe in the afternoon shade of 
 its drooping willows and wide-spreading syc- 
 amores, and through the encircling wreaths of 
 smoke gazed dreamily upon the "noblest pros- 
 pect in the whole known world." 
 
 Envoy. 
 
 In parting company for a time at least with 
 the fifty subscribers to our illustrated itinerary, 
 we trust that these fellow tourists of ours 
 have found the pilgrimage an instructive one, 
 are not travel-stained and weary, and have en- 
 joyed equally with their guides, the Icono- 
 philes, this ramble around the streets of our 
 fair City of New York. 
 
 William Loring Andrews. 
 
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NOTES AND LISTS 
 OF NEW YORK VIEWS 
 
NOTES AND LISTS 
 OF NEW YORK VIEWS 
 
 NOTE I 
 
 THE u New York Mirror" was founded in 
 1824 by Saml. Woodworth, the author 
 of the " Old Oaken Bucket," and continued by 
 Geo. P. Morris, N. P. Willis and Theo. S. Fay. 
 Many of the fine engravings in this Journal were 
 the work of Asher B. Durand and James Smillie. 
 The full page illustrations average about 9x6 
 inches in size. The prints marked " S " are 
 vignettes, six on a sheet, eighteen in all. 
 
 VIEWS IN AND ABOUT NEW YORK 
 
 Bay and Harbor of New York from Staten Island . 
 
 Vol. xv., 
 
 1838 
 
 Bay and Harbor of New York from the Battery 
 
 u viii., 
 
 183, 
 
 Bowery Theater ...... 
 
 M vi., 
 
 1828 
 
 Bowling Green ...... 
 
 " viii., 
 
 1830 
 
 Brick Church, Beekman Street (S) 
 
 « vii., 
 
 1829 
 
 Brooklyn Collegiate Institute for young ladies (lith- 
 
 
 
 ograph ) 
 
 M viii., 
 
 1830 
 
 Christ Church (S) 
 
 " vii., 
 
 1829 
 
 City Hall 
 
 " v » 
 
 1828 
 
 City Hall (old) in Wall Street 
 
 " ix., 
 
 1831 
 
 Columbia College ...... 
 
 14 vi., 
 
 1828 
 
 First Presbyterian Church, Wall Street (S) 
 
 " vii., 
 
 1829 
 
 Grace Church (S) 
 
 " vii., 
 
 1829 
 
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NOTES AND LISTS OF NEW YORK. VIEWS 
 
 Jews' Synagogue, Elm Street (S) 
 
 " vii., 
 
 1829 
 
 Lafayette Theater ...... 
 
 " v., 
 
 1828 
 
 Lunatic Asylum, Bloomingdale .... 
 
 " xi., 
 
 1834 
 
 Merchants' Exchange (S) . 
 
 " vii., 
 
 1829 
 
 Masonic Hall [b) 
 
 " vii., 
 
 1529 
 
 Middle Dutch Church, Nassau Street . 
 
 44 vii., 
 
 1829 
 
 New York from Brooklyn Heights . . 
 
 " xi., 
 
 1834 
 
 New York, from rsedloe s Island .... 
 
 44 xiv., 
 
 1837 
 
 New York from Jersey City .... 
 
 41 viii., 
 
 1831 
 
 New York Institution for the Instruction of the 
 
 
 
 Deaf and Dumb ..... 
 
 " xiii., 
 
 1835 
 
 North Battery, foot of Hubert Street 
 
 " xi., 
 
 1833 
 
 rMortn L>utcn L-nurcn, William btreet yb) 
 
 vii., 
 
 1 029 
 
 Old Times on Broadway ..... 
 
 " xiv., 
 
 1836 
 
 Palisades (The) View on the Hudson 
 
 4 4 xvi., 
 
 1838 
 
 Park Row ....... 
 
 " viii., 
 
 1830 
 
 Presbyterian Church, Cedar Street (S) 
 
 " vii., 
 
 1829 
 
 Reformed Presbyterian Church, Murray Street (S) . 
 
 44 vii., 
 
 1 829 
 
 Rotunda (The), Chamber Street (S) 
 
 " vii., 
 
 1829 
 
 South Dutch Church, Exchange Place (S) 
 
 44 vii., 
 
 1829 
 
 St. George's Church (S) 
 
 " vii., 
 
 1829 
 
 St. John's Chapel ...... 
 
 u vi., 
 
 1829 
 
 St. Mark s Cnurcn (S) ..... 
 
 " vii., 
 
 I 29 
 
 St. Paul's Chapel 
 
 " v -> 
 
 1828 
 
 St. Patrick's Cathedral (S) .... 
 
 " vii., 
 
 1829 
 
 St. Thomas's Church 
 
 " vi., 
 
 1829 
 
 Trinity Church 
 
 44 v., 
 
 1828 
 
 U. S. Branch Bank (S) 
 
 14 vii., 
 
 1829 
 
 Unitarian Church, Mercer Street (S) 
 
 " vii., 
 
 1829 
 
 Wall Street 
 
 " ix., 
 
 1832 
 
 Weehawken . 
 
 44 X., 
 
 1833 
 
 Wood Scene near Hoboken .... 
 
 " x > 
 
 1832 
 
 In addition to the views above enumerated the 
 " New York Mirror " contains finely engraved por- 
 
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 traits of the following literary and dramatic celebrities 
 of the day : James H. Hackett, N. P. Willis, 
 Fitz-Greene Halleck, Washington Irving, William 
 Cullen Bryant, Charles S. Sprague, Miss C. M. 
 Sedgewick and Prosper M. Wetmore. 
 
 NOTE II 
 
 Titles of plates in" Bourne's Views," quarto. 
 Size of print 3*/x2^ (two on a page), all but 
 u New York from Weehawk," which is 5^x3^. 
 
 American Hotel, Broadway 
 Bay and Harbor of New York 
 Bower)' Theater 
 Bowling Green, New York 
 Brooklyn Ferry, Fulton Street 
 Church of the Ascension, Canal St. 
 City Hotel 
 Clinton Hall 
 
 Council Chamber, City Hall 
 Custom House, Wall Street 
 Exchange PI., looking to Hanover 
 Street 
 
 Grace and Trinity Churches 
 Junction of B'wayand the Battery 
 Landing place foot of Barclay St. 
 Landing place foot ofCourtlandt St. 
 Mansion House (Bunker's), B'way 
 Masonic Hall, Broadway 
 Merchants' Exchange, Wall St. 
 
 New York from Weehawk 
 Park Place, New York 
 Park Theater and part of Park 
 Row 
 
 Phenix Bank, Wall Street 
 Public Room, Merchants' Ex- 
 change 
 
 St. George's Church, Beekman St. 
 St. Luke's Church, Hudson St. 
 St. Paul's Church, Broadway 
 St Patrick's Cathedral, Mott St. 
 St. Peter's Church, Barclay St. 
 St. Thomas' Church, Broadway 
 Steamboat Wharf, Battery Place 
 Steamboat Wharf, Whitehall St. 
 The Reservoir, Bowery 
 Unitarian Church, Mercer St. 
 U. S. Branch Bank, Wall St. 
 Washington Hotel, Broadway 
 
 Two plates not published in the set are 
 
 Franklin Market, Old Slip Broadway and Fulton Street 
 
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NOTES AND LISTS OF NEW YORK VIEWS 
 
 NOTE III 
 
 " Peabody's Views," quarto. Size of the prints 
 (two on a page), 5)^x3^, all except the following, 
 which are about two inches square and are three to 
 five on a page, viz.: The Exchange, Masonic Hall, 
 Rotunda, U. S. Branch Bank, St. George's, Grace, 
 St. Thomas's and Second Unitarian Churches, St. 
 Patrick's Cathedral, Washington Hotel and Bowery 
 Theater. 
 
 Bowery Theater, New York 
 Bowling Green 
 
 Broad Street, Custom House in dis- 
 tance 
 
 Broadway from the Park 
 
 Coffee House Slip, foot of Wall St. 
 
 City Hall 
 
 City Hotel, Grace and Trinity 
 
 Churches 
 Deaf and Dumb Asylum 
 Elysian Fields, Hoboken 
 Grace Church, Broadway 
 Holt's New Hotel, corner Fulton 
 
 and Water Streets 
 Hudson River from Hoboken 
 Leroy Place 
 
 Lunatic Asylum, Manhattanville 
 Masonic Hall, Broadway 
 Merchants' Exchange, Wall St. 
 Merchants' Room, Exchange, 
 Wall Street 
 
 Navy Yard 
 New York 
 
 Park Theater, Park Row, Tam- 
 many Hall in the distance 
 
 Pearl Street and Ohio Hotel, Han- 
 over Square in the distance 
 
 Presbyterian Church, Carmine St. 
 
 Residence of Philip Hone, Esq. 
 
 Rotunda, Chambers Street 
 
 St. George's Church, Beekman 
 Street 
 
 St. Patrick's Cathedral, Mott St. 
 
 St. Thomas's Church, Broadway 
 
 Second Unitarian Church, Mer- 
 cer corner of Prince Street 
 
 Shot Tower, East River 
 
 U. S. Branch Bank, Wall Street 
 
 Washington Institute and City 
 Reservoir 
 
 Webb's Congress Hall, 142 B'way 
 
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NOTES AND LISTS OF NEW YORK VIEWS 
 NOTE IV 
 
 Blunt's "Stranger's Guide," i2mo. Size of 
 prints about 3^x2^. 
 
 Alms House South Street near Dover Street 
 
 City Hall State Prison 
 
 Coffee House Slip United States Branch Bank 
 
 NOTE V 
 
 Goodrich's "Picture of New York," 1 2mo. 
 Size of prints about 3^x2^. 
 
 *CofTee House Slip Park Theater 
 
 Exchange *South Street near Dover Street 
 
 Fulton Market *United States Branch Bank 
 
 View of Broadway near Grace Church 
 
 NOTE VI 
 
 Nichol's "New York Illustrated," 8vo. Size 
 of plates 3^x2^ inch, except the vignette on title 
 and the plates, of which measurement is given. 
 
 Bellevue Hospital 
 Bowling Green Fountain 
 City Hall, S'A^H 
 Custom House, present Sub-Treas'y 
 Deaf and Dumb Asylum 
 Dutch Church, Murray Street 
 Hall of Records 
 
 Merchants' Exchange, sH x lH 
 
 Trinity Church, upright view, 5^x3^ 
 * Note. Same plate as in Blunt's " Stranger's Guide." 
 
 New York from Governor's Is- 
 land (vignette) 
 Post Office (old Middle Dutch 
 Church) 
 
 Scotch Presbyterian Church, corner 
 
 Grand and Crosby Streets 
 St. Paul's and the Astor House 
 
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NOTES AND LISTS OF NEW YORK VIEWS 
 
 NOTE VII 
 
 Plates in " New York, Past, Present and Fu- 
 ture," added to those taken from " New York 
 Illustrated " (Trinity and the Dutch Church in 
 Murray street are omitted). 
 
 American Museum Distributing Reservoir, 42nd St. 
 
 Aqueduct Bridge Park Fountain 
 
 Baptist Church, corner Broome and Receiving Reservoir 
 
 Elizabeth Streets Universalist Church, Mercer St. 
 
 NOTE VIII 
 
 "ST. JOHN'S PARK " (AS IT WAS) 
 
 M St. John's Park," a highly ornamented en- 
 closure of about four acres, situated in front of St. 
 John's Church, and bounded by Hudson, Laight, 
 Varick and Beach streets. It stands in the name 
 of the Corporation of Trinity Church, though it is 
 virtually the property of the surrounding owners 
 and its privileges are confined to the proprietors and 
 such others as are permitted on their recommenda- 
 tion to hire keys at the annual charge of ten dollars. 
 It is surrounded by an iron fence, contains a most 
 beautiful fountain, and is more abundantly supplied 
 with shrubs and flowers than any other park in 
 the city. — From " New York, Past, Present and 
 Future." 
 
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 NOTE IX 
 
 THE GOVERNMENT HOUSE 
 The Government House was erected in 1790 
 on the site of Fort George, at the foot of Broad- 
 way, facing the Bowling Green. It was originally 
 designed for the residence of General Washington 
 (then President of the United States), but never 
 occupied by him. It afterwards became the resi- 
 dence of Governors George Clinton and John 
 Jay. It was used for the Custom House from the 
 year 1799 until 181 5, when it was taken down. 
 
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 W. L. Andrews 
 S. P. Avery 
 E. H. Bierstadt* 
 Beverly Chew 
 C. B. Footf 
 W. F. Havemeyer 
 E. B. Holden 
 R. H. Lawrence 
 M. C. Lefferts 
 J. Harsen Purdy 
 
 *Died December 19th, 1896 
 Succeeded by 
 
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