Fifth Avenue

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MASSIVE AND SPLENDIDLY GOTHIC IS ST. THOMAS'S. THE CHURCH DATES FROM 1825. IN 1867 THE PRESENT SITE WAS SECURED, AND THE BROWN-STONE EDIFICE OF THE EARLY SEVENTIES WAS FOR NEARLY TWO GENERATIONS THE ULTRA-FASHIONABLE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF THE CITY
Author of New York in Fiction, The New York of the Novelists, Bottled up in Belgium, etc.
DRAWINGS BY ALLAN G. CRAM
NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1918

In the making of this book the author has drawn from many sources. First, for many suggestions, he is indebted to Mr. Guy Nichols, the librarian of the Players Club, whose knowledge of the city is so profound that his friends occasionally refer to him as the man who invented New York. The author is indebted to the Fifth Avenue Association and to the invariable courtesy of those persons in the New York Public Library with whom he has come in contact.
Among the books that have been consulted are, first of all, the admirable monographs, Fifth Avenue, and Fifth Avenue Events, issued by the Fifth Avenue Bank. From these he has drawn freely. Among other volumes are The Diary of Philip Hone, Ward McAllister's Society as I Have Found It, George Cary Eggleston's Recollections of a Varied Life, Matthew Hale Smith's Sunshine and Shadow in New York (1869), Seymour Dunbar's A History of Travel in America, Miss Henderson's A Loiterer in New York, William Allen Butler's A Retrospect of Forty Years, Fremont Rider's New York City, Francis Gerry Fairfield's The Clubs of New York, Anna Alice Chapin's Greenwich Village, Theodore Wolff's Literary Haunts and Homes, Rupert Hughes's The Real New York, James Grant Wilson's Thackeray in the United States, Mrs. Burton Harrison's Recollections, Grave and Gay, Abram C. Dayton's Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York, and Martha J. Lamb's History of the City of New York. Also various articles in the magazines and newspapers.