m y.'i " Mm' 1809 mm Imm MEM v _ jii 1 ' life? ■ ■ i B9i it a a m • 1 « 1 r k' TO - DAY 4* A/ J609 C O Py RIGHT COMPLIMENTS OF N. W. HARRIS & CO BANKERS PINE STREET, NEW YORK ■ — — ; Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library Gift of Seymour B. Durst Old York Library PALMER'S VIEWS LANDING OF HENDRIK HUDSON, the intrepid navigator, from the "Half Moon." on the beach of Coney Island, September 6, 1609, under the orange, white and blue flag of the Dutch. In upper right-hand corner is shown the village of Manahatas, occupied by the Manahatas tribe of Indians, as it appeared on Hudson's arrival. 2— PALMERS VIKWS PALMER'S VIEWS— 3 W; Jersey Shore. Battery Park. Pennsylvania Freight Depots. Battery Place. WHITEHALL BUILDING, Battery Place, West to Washington Street, overlooking Hudson River and Battery Park, twenty stories. 254 feet high ^ one of the^most conspicuous office buildings in the city as seen from the harbor, commanding view of New York Bay, New Jersey and South Brooklyn. Elevator Co.. incorporated November, 1898, with branch offices in all principal cities. Otis elevators are successfully used in the tallest structures of the largest cities in the world. Eiffel Tower, 1,000 feet high. Metropolitan Life Tower. Singer Building. Hudson Terminal Buildings, etc., etc. shington Street. s of the General offices of the Otis 4— PALMER'S VIEWS THE, OLD FORT, built by Peter Minuit, 1626, was on site of present Custom House. (A.) White house built on Strand by Governor Stuyvesant ; (B.) House., built by Jacob Leisler : first brick house on Manhattan. (C.) The "Strand." now Whitehall Street; (D.) Pearl Street; (E.) Rampart, now State Street: (G.) Mouth of Broad St. Creek. Rear of church looking out on Bowling Green. NEW AMSTERDAM, a small city on Manhattan Island. New Holland, North America, now called New York, a part of the English Colonies. Dock front called the "Hoopt" (the first on Manhattan) was the pioneer of our present thirty-five miles of wharves. (From an old engraving about 1667.) VIEW OF NEW YORK from the north, 1679 (From an old print). First actual view of New York from the North River. Original drawing in possession of Long Island Historical Society. (1) Broadway; (2) Maiden Lane; house and lot on corner belonged to John Haberding, was sold in 1722 for $600. Upon above rural acres are now centered commercial and financial interests of New York. At point indicated by cross now stands the Singer Building, 612 feet above the curb. PALMER'S VIEWS— 5 West St. Bldg. Lusitania North River Jersey Shore West St. Ferry Boats A GENERAL VIEW of the river front, showing recent important developments, the Jersey shore, the swift trans-Atlantic liner "Lusitania" of the Cunard Line, outward bound, also ferries and ferryboats, a fine view of the docks, West Street, the West Street Building, etc.. etc. (i — r.\i..\i i-.k > \ i r.u > The upper cross-road on map is the present Maiden, Lane, then called "T'Maagde Paatje." BOWLING GREEN (The Common), font of Broad- way, looking north, i.s.' 5 . Treaty ground of the Indians, scene of great festivities. Corner house, Kennedy House, built 1760. Washington resided here. GOVERNMENT HOUSE, "Whitehall," erected 1786 on site of old fort facing Bowling Green, where the superb Custom House Building now stands. Originally designed for residence of President Wash- ington. Later was residence of New York Governors. OLD BUILLUaw, norinwest uuuer uroauway and Morris Street; latter at one time fashionable center of the city : site of present Columbia Building. ( Sec opposite page.) Kimball & Thompson, Archts. STANDARD OIL BUILDING. -6 Broadway, 114x208 feet, seventeen stories, j6,5 feet high, overlooking Bowling Green Park and Custom House. PALMER'S VJEWS-: COLUMBIA BUILDING, 29 Broadway, corner of Morris Street, pioneer skyscraper, built in 1890, was the first 13-story steel skeleton office building erected: long conspicuous as a landmark, overlooking the harbor: 3 stories enlarged and 3 stories added in 1909' Spencer Aldrich, owner. 8 — PALMER'S VIEWS BROADWAY corner Rector Street, showing first of great brovvnstone warehouses. This store covered 50 feet on Broadway and 220 feet on Rector St. ; site of old Grace Church and present Empire Bldg. VIEW OF BROADWAY, looking north and showing Old Grace Church, founded 1805, at S.W. cor. Broadway and Rector St.; showing residential section of what is now one of New York's busiest sections. Site now occupied by Empire Bldg. (See opp. page.) THE "GRACHT." or Broad Street Creek, 1659. The principal street at this period, the pride of the burghers. Through the center ran a natural canal walled with boards. Known as Broad Street Canal, now Broad Street. Filled in 1676. Marc Eidlitz & Son, Bldrs. Rector St. Trinity Churchyard EMPIRE BUILDING. 71 Broadway, cor. Rector St.. through to Trinity PI.. 20 stories, 293 ft. high, with arcade to "1 " station: Kimball & Thompson. Architects; owned by Orlando B. Potter Estate. Frederick Potter and Clarence H. Kelsey, Trustees. PALMER'S VIEWS— 9 J. P. Morgan & Co. Broad Street Mills Bldg. Exchange PI. MILLS BUILDING, Broad St. and Exchange Pl„ with extension to Wall St.; largest office building erected before time of steel-frame construction ; cost $3,000,000; assessed at $4,100,000. Darius O. Mills, Owner. 10— PAI.MF.RS VIEWS TONTIXE COFFEE HOUSE, northwest corner Wall and Water Streets. Ruilt ijQ4 by Merchants' Assoc. A great mercantile and political resort. LOWER PART OF BROADWAY (West Side) looking north, showing Trinity Church in the days when stage-coaches were yet in vogue. Sites of Hamburg- American, Empire Building, United States Realty Building, etc.. etc. FORTY-TWO BROADWAY BUILDING. Main offices of Empire Trust Co. Capital and surplus. $2,000,000. Extends through to New St.; 21 stories; 270 ft. high ; 7 a^res of office room ; 3,000 people an hour enter building. McYicknr Gaillard Realty Co.. agents. PAL.MF.R'S VIEWS— 11 Cruikshank Company, Renting Agent HAMBURG-AMERICAN BUILDING, 41-45 Broadway; on site of first hut erected by white man on Manhattan Island in 1613; offices of great steamship company, which has service to all parts of the globe ; 390 vessels with t^tal tonnage of nearly one million tins ; piers in Hobokcn. Emil L. Boas. Res. Director and General Manager. 12 — FA LM ICR'S VIEWS Mill ■pi WALL STREET, south side, in 1866, looking west from William Street. Present site of Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co.'s building, and other notable structures. - 1 FIRST POST-OM-lCt, 1804-1825. was at 29 William Street. Business transacted in room 12 ft. by 15 ft. Present site occupied by Lords Court Building. SECOND POST-OFFICE. 1825-1844, Garden Street (Exchange Place), east of Broad Street. Building formerly a school house. Eight clerks employed here. t3 m ^'H Eg Ml gjj MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE. Wall Street, corner William Street, erected 1827, destroyed by fire December 16, 1835. Later was site of old Custom House and on site to-day stands the magnificent National City Rank building. THIRD POST-OFFICE (view in 1868), Cedar Nassau and Liberty Sts. Originally Middle Dutch Church. Site occupied by Mutual Life Insurance Co.'s building. William St. Atlantic Rldg., Clinton & Russell, Archts. Wall St. ATLANTIC MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Wall and William Streets; nineteen stories, 242 feet high; founded 1842; has insured vessels and cargoes to value of $25,000,000,000, paying $135,000,000 losses; assets, $15,000,000. Anton A. Raven, President. PALMER'S VIEWS — HANOVER FIRE INSURANCE CO. BUILDING, 34-36 Pine St. ; founded 1852 fen-story granite building erected 1893; enlarged 1903; capital, $1,000,000; assets, $4,593,000 ; annual premiums, $2,500,000 : risks written, $285,070,000; surplus, $1,200,000. R. Emory Warfield. President. 14— PALMER'S VIEWS ATLANTIC GARDEN HOUSE, 9-1 1 Broadway, 1836; originally two histor homes (property of the Van Cortlandts). The traitor Arnold lodged here. Present site occupied by the magnificent Bowling Green Building. EVENING POST BUILDING, Nassau St., northwest cor. Liberty St.; stood from 1853-1875; was site of the present Liberty-Nassau Building. 31 stories; (See opposite page.) Tilt- IT M HT< TW- Broadway Clinton & Russell, Archts. ; Marc Eidlitz & Son, Bldrs. Cedar St. AMERICAN EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK. Broadway and Cedar Street; founded 1838: sixteen-story bank and office building erected 1001. PALMER'S VIEWS— 15 LIBERTY-NASSAU BUILDING, Liberty and Nassau Streets. $3,000,000 3 1 -story structure on $1,250,000 plot of 5,000 sq. ft.; 21 caissons sunk 90 feet to bed rock ; gray granite and white glazed terra-cotta. copper roof ; Greenwood & Co., Mgrs.— being built by C. L. Gray Constr. Co.. General Contractors. i' W.MKK'S VIF.WS PALMER'S VIEWS— 17 18 — PALMER'S VIEWS BROADWAY, northwest corner of Cortlandt Street, looking north, showing the departure for the war of New York's famous crack regiment, "The Seventh," April 19, 1861. FRAUNCE'S TAVERN, southeast cor. Broad and Pearl Streets. Built 1727. On the second floor of building General Washington took affecting leave of his army officers. A famous hostelry ; still standing. Here New York Chamber of Commerce had its origin. BROADWAY (West side south from Liberty St.), showing City Hotel (bet. 115 and 123 B'way), was Burn's Coffee House, 1763-70, where non-importation agreement was signed Oct. 31, 1765. Site occupied by Liberty Nat. Bk. Bdy. (see op. p.) Liberty Street Bourne Annex Ernest Flagg.Arclit. Cortlandt St. SIXGER BUILDING, Broadway and Liberty St.: first great tower occupied by offices; 65 ft. square, 47 stories. 512 ft. high: visible far out at sea when illuminated at night: foundations 92 ft. deep: weight, 18,365 tons; braced to withstand wind-pressure of 330 tons ; assessed at $6,300,000. Built by the Singer Manf. Co.. Elizabethport, NJ. PALMER'S VIEWS— 19 LIBERTY NATIONAL BANK, 139 Broadway: founded 1891 ; carved marble building erected 1903; capital, $1,000,000: surplus and profits, $2,500,000; deposits, $20.000,000 : resources. $24,000,000 ; loans and discounts average $14,000,000. Frederick B. Schenck. President. 20— PALMER'S VIKWS BROADWAY, PARK ROW, VESEY AND ANN STREETS (view from Park) ; sites of present Post-Ofnce, Park Row, St. Paul Bldg., National Park Bank, Mail and Express, St. Paul's Church, Astor House and other notable structures. ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL, Broadway, Vesey, Fulton and Church Streets. Built 1776 by Trinity Corporation, oldest church edifice in the city. President Washington and Governor Clinton worshipped here. BRICK MEETING HOUSE, Park Row. bet. Beekman and Spruce Sts. Built 1767. (Beekman St. opened 1749). Embraced 8 city lots. English Presbyterian Church moved here from Wall St. Demolished 1856; present Post-Office on site. CITY HALL AND PARK IN 1825. View shows Park Row to the right, site of present Post Office Building and Broadway to the left. PALMER'S VIEWS- p^^P 3^^V ■liltlilllll H fllli E llil SI M " Ann St. Wing Broadway Entrance Donn Barber, Archt. Fu,ton St - W!n ^ NATIONAL PARK BANK, Broadway, opposite St. Paul's Chapel, with wings to Fulton and Ann Streets; founded, 1856, on site of Temple Court, Beekman Street and Theater Alley; building erected on present site 1866; granite facade of great solidity built 1903-6 and interior reconstructed and artistically decorated. Capital, $3,000,000; surplus, $9,600,000 ; deposits, $120,000,000; resources $150,000,000; vaults usually hold $20,000,000 in cash; extensive safe deposit vaults. Building assessed at $2.200,000 ; occupied exclusively by bank. Richard Delafield, President. 22— PALMER'S VIEWS VIEW OF FERRY STREET, North Side, 1840. Looking down from Gold Street a part of the historic "Old Swamp," the upbuilding of which has been, to a great extent, due to the efforts of the Hon. Chas. A. Schieren. (see opp. page.) VIEW OF FERRY STREET, South Side, 1840. Looking up from Cliff Street. Section was formerly the northernmost part of the city. CASTLE GARDEN, a fort in 1812 ; Castle Clinton, 1822. Lafayette greeted here 1824. Jenny Lind sang here 1850. Immigrant station 1855. Aquarium to-day. Chas. A. Schieren entered these portals when a poor boy of 14 years, and to-day is ' one of the foremost manufacturers in the U.S. (see opp. page.) PALMER'S VIEW'S— 23 Cliff Street Chapel Court extension Schieren Building Schieren .Building Ferry Street CHARLES A. SCHIEREN COMPANY, Ferry and Cliff Streets; biggest plant of the kind in the world, producing every sort of leather belting us ed m th e t« emission of power; founded in 1868 by Charles A. Schieren, still the president of the company and the patentee of many improvements in belting that ha gn en ^ house a world market; situated in "The Swamp" district, where the early Dutch settlers built their tanner.es two centuries ago; original plant replaced by Sc^en Building, 1904; Chapel Court extension erected 1907. Capital,- $ I>0 oo,ooo. The old store shown in upper left-hand corner was at 90 Gold Street. PALMER'S VIEWS— 25 26— PALMER'S VIEWS PALMER'S VIEWS— 27 PALMER'S VIEWS— 29 30— PALMER'S VIEWS TAMMAN Y HALL I First Home). Nassau Street, corner Spruce Street, 1789. First permanent wigwam. PARK ROW. between Spruce and Frankfort Streets. "Old Newspaper Row," on of the best-known views of the recent past. Present site of the beautiful and massive Tribune Building (see opposite page.) TAMMANY HALL (Second Home), southwest corner Frankfort and Nassau Streets. Erected 1812. Removed 1867 to 14th Street. VIEW OF OLD HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD PASSENGER STATION, southwest corner West Broadway and Chambers Street ; was on present site of Irving National Exchange Bank, the leading financial institution of this present great business section of city. Frankfort St. Park Row City Hall Park Spruce St. TRIBUNE BUILDING, Nassau and Spruce Streets, facing City Hall Park: founded 1841, by Horace Greeley; eleven-story building erected 1873 by Whitelaw Reid ; nine stories added 1906; 335 feet high; Tribune Association ; Ogden Mills, President. PALMER'S VIEWS— 31 PALMER'S VIEWS 1. The Fort. 2. Tlie Chapel in the Fort. 13. The English Church. 14. The City Hall. A SOUTH PROSPECT OF YE FLOURISHING CITY OF NEW YORK I lilt 3. The Secretary's Office. Oreat Dock with a Bridge over it. 5. The Ruins of Whitehall, built bv Covi 15. The Exchange. Church. 17. Upper Market. 18. The Station Ship. A Wha'rf. i ^ Central Xat'l Bank Bdg. Hun Bdc. Home L^fe Ins. Bde. City Hall World Bdg. N. Y. Post Office. Park Row Bdg. City Investing Wes Vincent Bdg. Broadway Chambers. Postal Telegraph Bdg. "The Tribune" Am. Tract Society Bdg. St. Paul Bdg. Hudson Terminal Singer I.dg. LOWER MANHATTAN SKY LINE, as it appears to-day from Jersey City, with its mammoth and costly skyscrapers; Island was purchased from the Indians t At PALMER'S VIEWS— 33 m \ t f A s 88 D GflB HE PROVINCE OF NEW YORK, NORTH AMERICA, IN 1746. From Lithograph by G. Hayward. Duncan. 6. Part of Nutten Island. 8. The Lower Market. 0. The Crane. 10. The Great Flesh Market. 12. The Dutch Church. 21. Wharf for building ships. Original 6 feet 6 inches in length and 28 inches wide presented to the New York Society Library 1S4S by Mrs. Maria Peebles ot Lansinghurg, N.Y. Bowling Green Bdg. Am. Ex. Nat. Bk. Bdg. Am. Surety Bdg. U.S. Express Broad Exchange. Johnston Bdg. Trinity Church. Empire Manhattan Life Postal Telegraph 42 B'way. Standard Oil Bdg. Washington Bdg. as! 1 6.26 for about $24; the total realty value to-day is over $5,000,000,000 and $400,000 per acre. Value of land in above view averages about $400. a square foot. Maritime Bdg. 34 — PALMER'S V1KWS NIBLO'S THEATRE AND PUBLIC GARDENS. Broadway, comer Prince Street, 1828. Place for theatrical productions. Was on site of Metropolitan Hotel. BROADWAY ( west side), corner Franklin Street, 1815. Peter Cravey owned second house from corner, Gamaliel Smith one adjoining. PALMER'S VIEWS— 35 - ■ ■ V Church Street Worth Street \Ve?t Broadway Sixth Avenue "L" W t holesale dry goods house in world; founded 1843; TH E "hT'bT CLAFLI N COM PAN Y. West Broadway, Worth to Thona* , Street* SnNeTof Unhed Dry Goods Co.. capital. $5 ,. 000.000. $10,000,000 worth of goods in stock; $9,000,000 capital, President, jonn 36— PALMER'S VIEWS STONE BRIDGE crossing stream, at Broadway, ran along Canal Street, from the Collect Pond to the meadows on the west side, 1800. Considered "a place out of town." BROADWAY between Duane and Pearls Sts., 1807. Buildings occupied later ?>y Joseph Ichard. Win. Cutting (attorney), John C. Stevens, John Tonnele, Jr.. and Mr. Rapelje. STEINWAY & SOX'S - Piano Warerooms and Factory in Walker Street, Xew York, 1858. NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE. Broad St. to New. with entrance on Wall St.. founded May 17. 1792: occupied May. 1903; board room. 138 by 112 ft.. 80 ft. high; Corinthian columns 52 ft. high; 1,100 members: seats sold as high as $97,000. Cost $3,000,000. Geo. P. Post, architect. PALMER'S VIEWS— 37 STEIXVVAY HALL. 107-109 East 14th Street; headquarters world-famous piano firm of Steinway & Sons; built 1866; factories half century on Park Avenue. 52d to 53d Streets, to be moved to Long Island City ; ex- tensive factories also at Steinway. L.I.. and Hamburg. Germany. 20th St. Sixth Ave. 21st St. 22d St. O'NEILL-ADAMS COMPANY. Sixth Avenue. 20th to 22A Streets; two great department stores occupying two block-fronts on New York's greatest shopping thoroughfare, combined in 1907 to form one of America's greatest retail establishments. Two of many affiliated stores which buy more china and cut-glass than is brought into the United States by any five importers; and other things in proportion. This represents the largest retail buying power in the world. PALMER'S VIEWS- LORD & TAYLOR, wholesale and retail dry goods merchants, Broadway and Fifth Avenue. 19th to 20th Sts. ; one of the oldest and most substantial business houses in America. Established 1826 by Samuel Lord and George W. Taylor; incorporated 1904. Original establishment as shown in upper right-hand corner was in Catherine Street : principal store, previous to 1870. was at the corner of Broadway and Grand Street, when the house removed to its present building covering almost an entire block. The firm name has never been changed. Edward P. Hatch, now president of the firm, was admitted to partnership in 1879. 40— PALMER'S VIHW'S MADISON" COTTAGE (Corporal Thompson's Inn"), original site of famous Fifth Avenue Hotel, and to-day on the site stands the imposing Fifth Avenue Build- . ing. (See opposite page.) VIEW OF THE FAMOUS OLD FIFTH AVENUE HOTEL. Had a world-wide reputation. Scene of numerous political and other important gatherings. Was on site of the new Fifth Avenue Building. (See opposite page. I FRANCONI'S HIPPODROME, 185.5. Broadway and 23d Street. Covered an area of two acres of ground. VIEW OF THE WIDELY KNOWN HOFFMAN HOUSE in the more recent past. The additions recently made and the remodeling of this hotel have put it in the ranks of the first as well as the largest hotels of the metropolis. PALMER'S VIEWS— 41 23d St. Broadway, Albemarle, Hoffman House, Townsend Bldg., St. James Bldg. FIFTH AVENUE BUILDING, Fifth Avenue and Broadway, 23d to 24th Streets; fourteen-story office building on site of Corporal Thompson's Inn (1830), Franconi's Hippodrome (1853) and Fifth Avenue Hotel (1855-1008); fronting on three streets, wilh interior court 60 feet square, with 4,216 large windows, making one of the best lighted buildings in the city ; 90 miles of electric wiring : nineteen electric elevators making the round trip in thirty-eight seconds ; filtered ice water supplied by pipes to each office; assessed at $5,750,000. Fifth Avenue Building Co. 44— PALMER'S VIEWS COLUMBIA COLLEGE, between Madison and Fourth Aves., and 49th to 50th Sts. (second site). Above buildings, erected 1857, covered twenty acres granted by Legislature. OLD CHURCH which stood on the N.E. corner Broadway and 34th St. as late as 1902, when it was demolished. The magnificent Marbridge office building now occupies the site. (See opp. page.) PALMER'S VIEWS- 35th St. Broadway 34th St. MARBRIDGE BUILDING, Broadway, 34th to 35th Sts. ; modern store and office building in the new retail shopping center, admirably located at the intersection of Broadway with 34th Street, on line of "L" and Hudson and Manhattan underground railway from New Jersey, which is being extended to Grand Central Station, close to the new Penn. Railroad terminal and the great hotels; steel-frame, fire-proof structure erected 1908, with latest improvements. W. R. H. Martin, Owner. PALMER'S VIEWS — 47 ,1 •3 48— PALMER'S VIEWS OLD VARIAN HOMESTEAD, 1787, on 15 acre farm about 26th and 27th Streets and Broadway. Property was bought in 1787 for about $6,500. Shows the surrounding of upper Broadway at that period. Site of Townsend Building. (See opp. page.) CROTON RESERVOIR, Fifth Avenue, between 40th and 42d Streets, receiving supply from Croton River, 40 miles from the City Hall, through Croton Aqueduct; capacity 21,000,000 gallons. Water was let into reservoir July 4, 1842; 115 feet above tidewater. TOWN SEND BUILDING, Broadway cor. of 25th Street. 12-story modern office building, one of the first large buildings of its kind, marking the business development of this section of Broadway, for years a retail business and hotel district ; was the predecessor of a dozen large office . buildings since erected in this neighborhood. PALMER'S VIEWS — 49 KNOX BUILDING, Fifth Avenue and 40th Street; $1,000,000 home of world- famous hat firm; founded 1838 at no Fulton Street by Charles Knox; enormous factories in Grand Avenue, Brooklyn ; store in Singer Building ; capital, $2,000,000. Edward M. Knox, president. -PALMER'S VI KAYS METROPOLE HOTEL, Broadway, Seventh Avenue and 4-'d Street. Was a famous and popular rendezvous of the sporting men of New York. Stood on the site of the beautiful and unique "Heidelberg" building, now in course of construction by the widely known firm of Greenwood & Co. of St. Louis. BRUNSWICK HOTEL, Fifth Avenue, 27th to 28th Streets. A widely known hotel of the recent past. Was on site of present Brunswick Building. HEIDELBERG BUILDING, 42c! Street, Broadway to Seventh Avenue, six- story office building, surmounted by advertising tower, 30x30 feet and 250 feet high, to be brilliant by night with electric signs ; ultimately to be thirty stories high. Greenwood & Co., Mgrs. Being built by C. L. Gray Construction Co., General Contractors. PALMER'S VIEWS— 51 4ft ; fee rim us* it & EC EC EE Ef. wet eTsE Li EE EC EE E 3 B 32 P Murray Hill riotei FarK Ave. notei Beimont, vvarrenoc vv etmore, .nrciits. r,. 4-!d St. HOTEL BELMONT, PARK AVENUE AND EAST 4 2d Street; tallest hotel in world, 292 feet high : built over subway, with entrance to station through basement ; opposite Grand Central Station ; 250,000 square feet floor area; assessed at $3,875,000. B. L. M. Bates. Manager. 5J— PALMER'S VIKWS GOVERNOR PETRUS STUYVESANT'S MANSION. "Bowerie." on road to Harlem (between 2nd and 3rd Aves., and 10th and nth Sts.) The Governor was com-in-chief of New Amsterdam, last of the Dutch Government. Destroyed by fire 1 777- ST. LUKE'S HOSPITAL, Fifth Avenue and ^l'fty-fourth St. i facing south), occupied 32 city lots; corner-stone laid May, 1854; opened for reception of patients May 13, 1858; one of noted institutions of its day ; site oi present University Club. (THE) ROGERS MORRIS MANSION (Jumel Mansion), corner 161st Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. Later the home of Madame Jumel who married Aaron Burr. Was Washington's headquarters while General Howe occupied Apthorpy residence. v RESIDENCE OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON. "The Grange," Convent Avenue, be- tween i42d and 143d Sts., Kingsbridge Rd. A consummate statesman of rare tal- ent and unblemished integrity; killed in a duel by Aaron Burr, July 11, 1803. STUDEBAKER BUILDING. 48th St. and -th Ave.: ten-story metropolitan headquarters of Studebaker Bros. Mfg. Co. of South Bend. Ind. : the largest automobile, carriage and wagon builders in the world, and the pioneers in the manufacture of electric trucks. PALMER'S VIEWS — 53 110th St. Cathedral Parkway HENDRIK HUDSON ANNEX APARTMENTS. Broadway cor. noth St. Modern fire-proof structure overlooking Riverside Park and the Hudson River; one of the largest and most perfectly appointed apartment houses in the world, with every convenience. American Real Estate Company, owners. a — palm kr's v n:\vs BROOKLYN' in 1816. The pump stood in front of what is now the Union-Argus Building. James Street is in the middle, now the Anchorage of the Brooklyn Bridge. The house on extreme right, "Smith's Livery Stable," is on Fulton Street, and the present site of the "Brooklyn Daily Eagle." Corner opposite having a ladder against the house, was the Post Office. Brick house on left was residence of Augustus Graham, founder of the Brooklyn Institute. On the south side of Front, beginning at Main Street, are the residences of Jacob Hicks, Robert Bache, Robert Nichols, Charles Hewlett, corner of James Street, the Carpenter Shop of Benj. Meeker: opposite is the Barn of Abel Titus. Old view of Bedford Corners during the War for Independence when Brooklyn was View of the city of Brooklyn in 1840, showing the remarkable strides made in build- the scene of much military activity. ing since the organization of the village in 1816. I Clinton St. Hamilton CiUb Franklin Trust BlUg. Mpntague St. FRANKLIN TRUST COMPANY. Montague and Clinton Streets, Brooklyn; organized 1888; capital. $1,500,000: surplus. $1,500,000; deposits. $12,900,000; resources. $16,000,000: branch at 140 Broadwav. Manhattan: storage an*?, safe deposit vaults. Arthur King Wood. President. PALMER'S VIEWS— 55 Erected 1905 ^ Mowbray & UfRnger, Archts. Montague St. PEOPLES TRUST COMPANY. 181-183 Montague Street. Brooklyn: chartered i88g; capital. $1,000,000; surplus. $1,600,000: deposits. $18,000,000; largest trust company in the bnrmvrh ; branches, Bedford Avenue and Halsey Street and Clinton and Myrtle Avenues. Charles A. Boody, President. 6 — PALMER'S VIEWS BROOKLYN* FRRRY HOUSE, foot of Fulton Street, 1746. A two-story house with stables and outhouses attached. Burned by the Sepoys of Long Island, 1748. LONG ISLAND CLUBHOUSE in 1868. the above building was located on the present site of the widely-known Hamilton Club. OLD DUTCH CHURCH, Fulton Avenue near Lawrence Street. Built in 1766, it was the second edifice that was erected on this site. (From a very old print. I THE EAST RIVER ICE BRIDGE of January 3, 1867. Hundreds of people crossed the river on the ice on this day. which was a memorable one. PALMER'S VIEWS Flecl Street T->T»t ^ e *^ alD Avenue .Mowbray & Uffineer \rchts ^tliVrfJ! BAN t K °f F , BRO °v. KI i YN « DeKaIb AvenUC a " d Fket Street; f ° Unded l8 * 9: taoved "08 from Court and Remsen Streets to stately at transportation center of borough of 1.600.000 people; $36,000,000 deposits, in 76,000 accounts, handled at an annual cost of less than $90000 $3,000,000; one of the strongest institutions of its kind. J. Lawrence Marcellus, President; Russell S. Walker. Treas. ; Frederick W. Fulton Street new banking house ; surplus, nearly Jackson, Secy. 58— PALMER'S VIEWS OLD MECHANICS' BANK BUILDING, as it appeared in the year 1840; occupied by Bank 1852-1904. For present building now on site see opposite page. BROOKLYN' HEIGHTS in 1840, showing Colonnade Row, Columbia and Middagh Streets. The Colonnade \. as destroyed by fire in 1853. HAMILTON BUILDING. 1874, corner Court and Joralemon Streets, stood on site of present "Temple Bar" ; was the old home of the Long Island Loan and Trust Company, as is the present Temple Bar Building. (See opposite page.' PIERRLPONT MANSION. "The Four Chimneys" stood near Montague St. and Clinton PI Cen'l Washington had headquarters here during Battle of Brooklyn. Court St. Montarue St Mechanics' Bank Bldg. Fulton St. MECHANICS' BANK, Montague and Court Streets, facing Borough Hall, Brooklyn; founded 1852: largest state hank in the borough, five branches; capital. $1,000,000; surplus. $950,000; deposits, $14000000: resources. $20,000,000. George \V. Chauncey. President. PALMER'S VIEWS LONG ISLAND LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY, Temple Bar, Court a Joralemon Streets, Brooklyn; incorporated 1883: capital. $1,000,000; sur- plus, $2,105,000; deposits, $9. 400, ceo ; resources. $12,614,000. Edward Merritt, President. Temple Bar. erected 1901 ; twelve stories. 60 — PALMER'S VIKWS View of the BROOKLYN CITY HALL in 1851, from the site of the Mechanics' Bank Building. Original presented to the bank by Mr. Guy Du Val, February 26, 1906. Back of the City Hall Stood the First Reformed Church. (Courtesy of Mr. Chancey. President Mechanics' National Bank.) OLD MANSION HOUSE, between Clark and Pierrepont Streets, Brooklyn, Long SCHERMERHORN HOUSE, built 1690, oldest house in Brooklyn still standing. 3 Island, a well known hostelry. (From an old print.) Avenue and 28th Street, on site of first house built in Brooklyn in 1636. PALMER'S VIEWS— 61 BROOKLYN SWINGS BANK, Pierrepont and Clinton Streets; oldest and largest savings bank in old Brooklyn; founded 1827; moved 1893 from old brownstone building at Fuhon and Concord Streets to new granite banking house; 66,600 depositors; deposits, $45,000,000; surplus $4,690,000; daily ^/^/Sin^ $,00 000; cost of management, two-tenths of one per cent of the deposits. With its fine bronze and carved granite embdhshments and ule roof the bu.ldmg is one of the show places of Brooklyn. Bryan H. Smith, President; Felix E. Flandreau, Cashier; E. P. Maynard, Compt. 62— PALMER'S VIEWS THF. MIDDAGH HOUSE AND BARN, corner Henry and Fulton Streets, Brooklyn, was occupied by St. Ann's Church in 1784. From a very old print. LEFFERT LEFFERTS HOMESTEAD, 1759-1877. Fulton Street, corner Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn. Original drawing in possession of H. A. Ogden. DE HART BERGEN HOUSE in 1863, Third Avenue near 38th Street. (De La Plaine House to right.) Labadist travelers entertained here 1679. Thirty-ninth Street Ferry now on site. MONTAGUE STREET HILL, BrooKlyn. beiore me neights were built and became the aristocratic center. From an old print. PALMER'S VIEWS— 63 iiiii«iip rSsiwt^ 9 " IB I**. \^ ''''^Tfr^ tu ^IllltlSI LSI >4 Bond Street Frederick Loeser & Co.'s, Fulton St. "L," Brooklyn Rapid Transit Elm Place Addition Facing Subway Statio« FREDERICK LOESER & CO.'S DEPARTMENT STORE, Fulton Street and De Kalb Avenue, enormous retail dry goods store, founded at Fulton and Tillary Streets in 1869 ; on present site since 1887 : twelve times enlarged to meet the demand of constantly increasing business, until the salesrooms occupy five floors of buildings covering two city blocks, in the shopping center of Brooklyn, while the firm has huge warehouses and distributing stations in various sections of Brooklyn and Queens. Prices of goods guaranteed as well as quality. Brooklyn's leading store. (A — PALMER'S VIEWS BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, Washington and Johnson Streets; founded 1841; EAGLE WAREHOUSE AND STORAGE CO., 28-44 Fulton Street, Brooklyn; huge new building completed 1904; one of the most perfect newspaper plants in the fireproof structure for storage of furniture: model establishment. Upper view world: all machinery operated by electricity. Upper view shows old Brooklyn shows Fulton Street in 1821. Former site of Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Theater, destroyed by fire, 1876. Brooklyn Daily Eagle now on this site. present site of Eagle Warehouse and Storage Co. N. W. HARRIS & CO BANKERS Pine Street, NEW YORK 35 Federal Street, BOSTON Receive deposits subject to check and allow interest on balances. Act as fiscal agents for municipalities and cor- porations. Issue letters of credit avail- able in all parts of the world and deal in BONDS FOR INVESTMENT List on Application